Sermon-The image we all carry

The Son of a Migrant from Syria, Banksy, 2015

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 7th July 2024 and St Mary Le Bow on Thursday 11th July 2024, the Sixth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 9) based on the text of Mark 6.1-13. 

Stand Up and Be Counted

Voting Line, Charly Palmer, 2000

My introduction to the June 2024 edition of The Pelican, the Parish e-Magazine of St Giles-in-the-Fields:

As I write, family and friends in South Africa have been standing in line for over three hours to cast their vote. They are not alone. This month, votes cast by 20% of the world’s population will be counted. The result of India’s three-month long general election will be revealed. The population of Mexico goes to the polls in an historic election widely expected to return the country’s first female President; and voters in the European Union will elect a new parliament.  

Sermon - The labourers are few - but the harvest is plentiful!

Harvest Threshing, Albert Gleizes, 1912

A sermon preached during the Choral Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 3rd July 2022 (Third Sunday after Trinity, Year C) based on the reading from Luke 10.1-11, 16-20.

Start-Stop:Faith and Politics

Worship - From the Beatitudes of Love by Stanley Spencer

Start:Stop at St Stephen Walbrook allows busy commuters to start their day by stopping to reflect for ten minutes. Prayers and reflections start every quarter of an hour from 7.45am until 9.00am each Tuesday morning. This is my reflection from Tuesday 5th November 2019.