Sermon-The Gate to Salvation

Christ a la Porte from La Passion, Georges Rouault, 1939

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 26th April 2026 (Year A) - also the day of the London Marathon which passes nearby and “Vocations Sunday” in the Church of England and based on readings from Acts 2.42-47 and John 10.1-10. 

Thought for the Day-Seeing Salvation

Earthrise by William Anders, Apollo 8, NASA, 1968

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 7th April 2026 based on John 20.11–18

Sermon-Rooted in the Cross

A sermon given during a service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Palm Sunday 29th March 2026 (Year A) based on readings from Matthew 21.1-11 and Matthew 27.1-54

Sermon-Love at the Cross

Memorial to John Letts in St Olave Hart Street (from 'A London Inheritance')

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 15th March 2026 (Mothering Sunday) based on readings from Colossians 3.12–17 and John 19:25b–27. 

Sermon-God so loved the world

The Kiss, Edvard Munch, 1897

A sermon given during a service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 1st March 2026, the Second Sunday of Lent based on readings from Romans 4:1–5, 13–17 & John 3:1–17

Sermon-The Conversion of Paul

Conversion of St. Paul, by Roy Ruiz Clayton 

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 25th January 2025 (Year A) The Conversion of Paul – based on readings from Galatians 1.11-16a & Matthew 19.27-30

Sermon-Keeping Up Appearances?

Hyacinth and Richard aboard the QEII (BBC)

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 12th October 2025 based on readings from Ephesians 4.1-6 and Luke 14.1-11.

Thought for the Day-Texts of Healing

The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St Paul's, Yale Centre for British Art

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 2nd September 2025 based on the text of 1 Thessalonians 5.1-6, 9-11 and Luke 4.31-37 and the anniversary of the start of the Great Fire of London.

Thought for the Day-All the World's a Stage?

Actor’s Mask, Paul Klee, 1924, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

A Thought for the Day offered at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 27th August 2025 based on the text of Matthew 23.27-32

Sermon-Who is the Greatest?

The Second Lord Baltimore Cecilius (Cecil) Calvert (1605-1675) by Gerard Soest, c. 1670

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields at 11am on Sunday 24th August 2025 (Saint Bartholomew, Apostle) based on the text of Acts 5.12-16, Luke 22.24-30 and referencing the International Day for the Remembrance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition. The service was followed by the baptism of Ava Coumbe.

Sermon-Balancing the Books

Dollar Sign 9, Andy Warhol, 1982

A sermon given during a service of Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 17th August 2025 based on the text of 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 and Luke 16.1-9.

Sermon - Embodying the ‘good desires’ of God’s grace

Churches, New Jerusalem, Aristarkh Lentulov, 1917

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 18th May 2025 (Easter 5, Year C) based on the text of Acts 11.1-19, Revelation 21.1-6 & John 13.31-35. The service was followed by the Annual Parish Meeting.

Sermon - My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.

Jorge Cocco Santángelo, The Good Shepherd, 2017

A sermon given during Sung Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street at 11am on Sunday 11th May 2025 (Easter 4, Year C) based on readings from Acts 9.36-end and John 10.22-30. The service was followed by the Annual Parish Meeting.

Sermon - The Risen Christ in our Midst

Jesus Appears to the Disciples After the Resurrection by Imre Morocz, 2009

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields at 11am on Sunday 27th April 2025, prior to the Annual Parish Meeting and based on the texts of 1 John 5.4-12 and John 20:19-23

“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”

Sermon - Seeing Salvation

Michael Cook, Noli me tangere, 2016

A homily given during Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 20th April 2025 (Easter Sunday) at 6.30pm based on the text of John 20.11–23

Sermon - You'll miss me when I'm gone

Fig Tree by Paul Klee

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St George's Bloomsbury on Sunday 23rd March 2025 (Year C, Lent III) based on readings from Isaiah 55.1-9, 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 and Luke 13.1-9

Sermon-Flipping Loyalties

The Pancake Bakery, Pieter Aertsen, 1560

A sermon given during a service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 4th March 2025 at 12.30pm based on passages from James 4.1-10 and Mark 10.29-31

Sermon-Blind Faith

‘Christ Healing the blind" (2010) by Thobias Minzi, Tanzania

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 2nd March 2025 (Quinquagesima or the Last Sunday before Lent) based on the text of 1 Corinthians 13, Luke 18.31-43 and inspired by the pop history of nearby Denmark Street, as explored in Peter Watts excellent book.

Sermon-Like a flourishing tree

The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 16th February 2025, The Third Sunday before Lent (Proper 3, Year C) based on texts from Jeremiah 17.5-10, Psalm 1, 1 Corinthians 15.12-20, Luke 6.17-26

Thought for the Day-The Perfect Mediator

Khrystyna Kvyk (Ukrainian, 1994–), I Am the Light of the World, 2021

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 22nd January 2025 based on the text of Hebrews 7.1-3, 15-17 and Mark 3.1-6