Thought for the Day-The March for Freedom

Soldiers and Students, 1962, Jacob Lawrence

A Thought for the Day given at the lunchtime service of Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 28th August 2024 based on the text of 2 Thessalonians 3.6–10, 16–end and drawing on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speach.

Sermon-"I don't believe it!"

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….

Sermon-The Good Samaritan

Martin Luther King's first public speech in the UK at Bloomsbury Baptist Church, October 1961

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 25th August 2024, The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity based on the text of Luke 10:23–37.

Drawing on Martin Luther King's final sermon to explore the parable of The Good Samaritan. 

BOOK REVIEW-Endell Street. The Women who ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital

Based on research from numerous sources and woven together into an engaging narrative, this former Radio Four ‘Book of the Week’ by Wendy Moore tells the story of the Endell Street Military Hospital – the only hospital in England ever to be run and staffed entirely by women, located in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields. Wendy Moore will be giving a talk for The St Giles Society on Wednesday 20th November 2024 at 7pm at St Giles-in-the-Fields. Tickets £5 available at this link.

Thought for the Day-The Great Shepherd of the Sheep

The Good Shepherd by John Kohan

A Thought for the Day given at the lunchtime service of Holy Communion at 11am on Wednesday 21st August 2024 at St Giles-in-the-Fields based on the text of Ezekiel 34.1–11 and inspired by the anniversary of the foundation of the World Council of Churches.

Sermon-The Art of Why?

Job: A Masque for Dancing - Original Production at The Cambridge Theatre, July 1931 (V&A Collection)

A sermon given during Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 28th July 2024 based on the text of Job 19.1-17. A canter through the artistic masterpieces inspired by the Book of Job - one of which was premiered in this parish.

Sermon-Seeing the real Unjust Steward

 

Brian Bilston, Refugees, 2016

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 28th July 2024, The Ninth Sunday after Trinity based on the text of Luke 16:1–9

Using Brian Bilston’s “Reverse Poem” refugees as a way of re-reading the parable of the Unjust Steward.

Prayers of Intercession - Calm amidst Chaos

Small Chaos, Nengi Omuku, 2020 

Prayers of Intercession written for the Sung Eucharist at St Mary le Bow on Thursday 25th July 2022 ((Year B, Trinity 8, Proper 11) based on the text of Mark 6.30-34, 53-end.

Thought for the Day-The Parable of the Sower

Green Ears of Wheat, Vincent van Gogh, 1888

A Thought for the Day given at the lunchtime service of Holy Communion at 11am on Wednesday 24th July 2024 at St Giles-in-the-Fields based on the text of Matthew 13.1-9

Thought for the Day-Woe to Unrepentant Cities

Somerset Place, Bath, John Piper, 1942 (Tate Britain)

A Thought for the Day given at the lunchtime Eucharist at St Olave Hart Street in the insurance district of the City of London on Tuesday 16th July 2024 based on the text of Matthew 11.20-24 (‘Woe to Unrepentant Cities’)

Sermon-Believing in the miracle of multiplication

'150 People', Los Carpinteros, Art Basel 2012

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 14th July 2024 based on the text of Romans 6.19-23 and Mark 8.1-9.