Thought for the Day-A Matter of Perspective

"The Class System" from The Frost Report

A Thought for the Day given during a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 9th September 2025 based on readings from Colossians 2.6-15 and Luke 6.12-19.

Sermon-"I am what I am"

Douglas Hodge as Albin in the 2010 production of La Cage aux Folles (photo by Joan Marcus)

A sermon given at a service of Holy Communion (BCP) on Sunday 31st August 2025 at St Giles-in-the-Fields based on the text of 1 Corinthians 15.1-11 and Luke 18.9-14.

Sermon - The Symbolism of Advent Sunday

Time Death and Judgement by George Frederick Watts (now hanging in St Giles-in-the-Fields)

A sermon given during Holy Communion following the Baptism of Nicola Pitts on the First Sunday in Advent at St Giles-in-the-Fields on 1st December 2024 based on readings from Romans 13.8-14 and Matthew 21.1-13.

Drawing on the changing symbolism in the art of George Frederick Watts, whose work hangs in St Giles-in-the-Fields to explore the Prayer Book readings for the First Sunday in Advent.

Sermon-Twelve Angry Men

Still from the film Twelve Angry Men (1957)

A sermon given during Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 15th September 2024, based on the text of Matthew 7.1-14

Is the classic 1957 film Twelve Angry Men a dramatization of Matthew 7.1-14?

Sermon - What did you come here to see?

“Visit Me” – illustration for Christianity Today magazine by Kumé Pather

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 17th December 2023 (The Third Sunday in Advent) based on readings from  1 Corinthians 4.1-5 and Matthew 11.2-10.

Homily - Freedom and Judgement

The Three Judges, Georges Rouault (Tate Gallery)

A Homily given during Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 17th September 2023 (Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity) based on readings from Job 1 and Matthew 7.1-14. In this homily I sought to explore personal disclosure, as part of my curacy training. 

Start-Stop:Ugliness and Judgement

Three Coke Bottles - Andy Warhol, 1962

Good morning and welcome to Start:Stop. Our prayers and reflection will last just under ten minutes and you are welcome to stay and go as your schedule dictates. We begin with a short bible reading, which can be found on page 60 of the New Testament if you would like to follow along as I read aloud;

BOOK REVIEW - Job - The Story of a Simple Man by Joseph Roth

There is a long list of novels which have been inspired or influenced by scripture, but Phoebe by Paula Gooder is, I think, the first time I have consciously read a work of fiction which is based on part of (and named after someone in) the bible! I found it a fascinating book (described here) and I wondered whether there were other, similar novels. I haven't found anything quite like Phoebe yet but the search led me to Job - The Story of a Simple Man, by Joseph Roth.