Sermon-I Look Up to Him. I Look Down on Him.

 

Contempt of Hatred (Expressive Head), by Ernest Joseph Bailley, c1792 (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent)

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 13th September 2026 (Year A, Proper 19) based on the texts of Romans 14.1-12 and Matthew 18.21-35 and drawing on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Life Together”.

Sermon - Our Ministry of Bearing

Alice Neel, The Family, 1927, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St Olave Hart Street, City of London and at Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Mothering Sunday 30th March 2025 based on the text of 1 Samuel 1.20-end and Luke 2.33-35.