Start:Stop-The Image of God

From Island of Saints - An exhibition of Icons at All Hallows by the Tower

Good morning and welcome to Start Stop. Our prayers and reflection will last around ten minutes and you are welcome to come and go as your schedule dictates. Our theme today is The Image of God and we begin, as usual, with a short bible reading.

Icons and the Russian Avant-Garde

The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 - Petrograd 1915-16

As part of “Islands of Saints,” a small exhibition of Icons of British and Anglo-Saxon saints at All Hallows by the Tower (12 July – 2 August 2019), art historian Andrew Spira gave a fascinating lecture on the influence of the orthodox Icon painting tradition on the Russian Avant-Garde (which reached its peak between the 1917 revolution and the early 1930s). He used images of work from a variety of little known (to me!) artists, to illustrate how icon painting influenced art and culture throughout the changing political landscape of Russia. He began by explaining what an icon is and how the icon painting tradition emerged.

Start:Stop-One Small Step

Good morning and welcome to Start Stop. This morning we will be reflecting on the first Lunar Communion, the link between St Stephen Walbrook and the space-faring adventurer Dan Dare and how for many Christians today the freedom to celebrate communion seems like a world away. We begin with a short bible reading which can be found on page 117 of the New Testament.

BOOK REVIEW - A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell

Written more like a screenplay than a novel, with five distinct acts and narration which ‘breaks the fourth wall,’ Orwell is said to have dismissed this early (1935) novel as “bollocks” – not a word that would be in the vocabulary of the titular anti-heroine, Dorothy Hare.

Start:Stop-The Whole Armour of God

Don Quixote by Pablo Picasso (1955)

Start:Stop at St Stephen Walbrook offers busy commuters the chance to start their day by stopping to reflect for ten minutes, every Tuesday morning. This is a transcript of my reflection from July 2nd 2019. Thank you for joining us for Start:Stop. This reflection will last around ten minutes and you are welcome to come and go as your schedule dictates. We begin with a bible reading, which today comes from the final chapter of the Letter to the Ephesians. If you want to follow along the passage is on page 209 of the New Testament.