Sermon - Grappling with the Armour of God

Anatoly Zverev, Don Quixote (1971)

A homily given at Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 29th October 2023 based on readings from Ephesians 6.10-20 and Matthew 14.13-33.

Sermon - Spiritual Warfare

'Struggle' From the History of the American People by Jacob Lawrence

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 29th October 2023 (The Twenty First Sunday after Trinity) based on readings from Ephesians 6.10-20 and St. John 4.46-end and the Collect for the week: Grant, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace; that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Sermon - A Tale of Two Letters

'A Slave's Plea for Freedom' - 4th August 1723 (Lambeth Palace Library)

A sermon given at the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 22nd October 2023 (Year A) based on readings from Isaiah 45.1-7, 1 Thessalonians 1.1-10 and Matthew 22.15-22 and resources prepared by the Church of England marking Black History Month.

Sermon - Learning to Walk Again

The Paralytic Being Let into the Top of the House on his Bed, Stanley Spencer c.1920

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 15th October 2023 (The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity) based on readings from Ephesians 4.17-end and Matthew 9.1-8. In this sermon I explored the notion of personal disclosure in preaching, as part of my curacy training.

A Grace in honour of two trailblazing City women

Miss Sylvia Tutt, Master of the Worshipful Company of Secretaries and Administrators (1983/4)

A grace written for a lunch held by the Lady Masters Association at Trinity House, London on Thursday 12th October 2023 marking the fortieth anniversary of the first Lady Master of a Livery Company (Miss Sylvia Tutt) and the fortieth anniversary of the first female Lord Mayor of London (Dame Mary Donaldson). It was a great honour and privilege to be invited and to meet so many other trailblazing City women - and to hear from the second female Lord Mayor of London, Dame Fiona Woolf.

Further Prayers for Choral Evensong on Sunday 1st October 2023

The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne by William Blake

Further Prayers written for Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 1st October 2023 (The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity) kept as Harvest Sunday based on text from Isaiah 6.1-7 and Revelation 4.1-11 and the anthem ‘Thou Visitest the Earth’ by Maurice Greene, based on verses from Psalm 65.

Sermon - The uncomfortable truth about God's love

James Janknegt (b1953), The Day Laborers

A sermon given during the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 24th September 2023 (The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity), Year A, Proper 20, based on readings from Jonah 3.10-end of 4, Psalm 145.1-8, Philippians 1.21-end and Matthew 20.1-16

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. 

Sermon - An unattainable ideal or a living reality?

Instant City, Archigram/Peter Cook, 1969 

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 17th September 2023 (The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity) based on readings from Galatians 6.11-18 and Matthew 6.24-end. In this sermon I explored the notion of challenge in preaching, as part of my curacy training.

Further Prayers for Choral Evensong on Sunday 10th September 2023

Zandile Tshabalala, Untitled, 2021

Further Prayers written for a service of Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields based on text from the hymn ‘O Perfect Love’ by Dorothy F. Gurney (1883), Psalm 119.46-64, Proverbs 31.10-31 (‘The Valiant Woman’) and Matthew 6.19-34.

Lessons from a "well seasoned" Saint

Autumn Landscape with Four Trees (1885) by Vincent van Gogh

Message for the Parish Magazine of St Giles-in-the-Fields, September 2023:

On the day the church remembers St Giles, the patron saint of leprosy sufferers, summer turns to autumn in the UK meteorological calendar. Seasonal change was a pet topic of the pioneering ecologist, ornithologist and priest Gilbert White. While many of his conclusions have since been disproved by modern science - such as his belief that swallows hibernate underground (rather than migrate) in winter - his observations about leprosy appear to be borne out, in part.