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| Traffic Jam by Peter Saul, 2002 (produced for the 50th Anniversary of Greenpeace) |
A sermon given at Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 25th August 2024, drawing on the work of poet and hymn writer William Cowper (and Victor Meldrew’s screenwriter David Renwick)
Victor Meldrew claimed that a bank holiday traffic jam is the perfect metaphor for our journey through life. This bank holiday eve, the work of poet and hymn-writer William Cowper offers us a more sanguine – and realistic - metaphor to challenge Victor’s hopeless, Stoic philosophy….
