Thought for the Day-Loving Tradition

Mardi Gras on the Boulevards, Camille Pissarro, 1897, Harvard Art Museums

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 10th February based on the text of Mark 7.1-13 and preparations for Lent, which begins next week.

Sermon-Hidden in Plain Sight

The Black Boy, William Lindsay Windus, 1844

A sermon given during Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 8th February 2026 based on the texts of Romans 8.18-25 and Matthew 6.25-end on the day the church marked Racial Justice Sunday.

Baptism Homily-The Original "Glow Up"

The Street Light: Study of Light, Giacomo Balla (1909)

A homily given during Holy Baptism at St Olave Hart Street on Saturday 7th February 2026 based on an extract of a text written by Terry Pratchett ‘The Little Spark’ and Mark 10.13-16.

Sermon-From the crib to the cross, from revelation to response

An old man writing a book by candlelight, Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706) 

A sermon given during a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 3rd February 2026, marking the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple or Candlemas. A version of this sermon was also given during the Church of England’s National Online Service on Sunday 1st February 2026 which you can watch below or at this link.

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-Word of the Father now in flesh appearing

A homily given during a service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Thursday 25th December 2025 based on the text of Isaiah 52.7–10, John 1.1–14.

Sermon-God has crossed the threshold

The Nativity, Edward Burne Jones, 1888

A homily given at Midnight Mass at St Olave Hart Street on Wednesday 24th December 2025 based on the text of Isaiah 9.2-7, Luke 2.1-20 and drawing on Richard Crashaw’s poem ‘Welcome all wonders’. 

Sermon-This is the record that matters

Leonid Pasternak - The Passion of creation

A sermon preached during Sung Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 21 December 2025, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, based on Philippians 4.4-7 and John 1.19-28.

A Homily for the St Thomas Eve Carol Service-The Living Word

Illumination showing banderoles from Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae super totam Biblam

A homily given at the St Thomas Eve Carol Service for The Clothworkers' Company at St Olave Hart Street on Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 11.30am. 

Nine Lessons and Carols-Living the Word

A homily given at the conclusion of the sequence of Nine Lessons and Carols at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 9th December 2025 at 5.30pm. Thank you to everyone who came to this first service of its kind here for many years. A special thank you to Colin Spinks and the choir and to all our readers, representing some of the many important organisations who call St Olave Hart Street their 'own' church.

Thought for the Day-Lost & Found

The Good Shepherd (The Lost Sheep), 1922, by Henry Ossawa Tanner

A Thought for the Day given at a Lunchtime Service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 9th December 2025 based on readings from Isaiah 40.1-11 and Matthew 18.12-14.