Sermon - And one will be left

Graveyard under Snow, Caspar David Friedrich, 1826

A sermon for Advent Sunday (Year A) given at the Sung Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 1st December 2022  based on the text of Romans 13.11-end and Matthew 24.36-44. This sermon was also given at St George’s Bloomsbury. 

Eulogy - Johan Christian Lamprecht and Marie Cornelia Lamprecht

Olafur Eliasson The Weather Project 2003

A eulogy given at the Memorial Service for Johan Christian Lamprecht (05/01/1942-14/09/2021) and Marie Cornelia Lamprecht (06/12/1941-31/01/2020) held at St Stephen Walbrook at 3pm on Thursday 3rd November 2022  A recording of the service is at this link.

BOOK REVIEW - A Grief Observed by C.S.Lewis

A Grief Observed by C.S.Lewis (First published 1961)

In the 1994 introduction to this book written in 1960 and originally published under a pseudonym, Douglas H Gresham, the step-son of C.S.Lewis, issues a note of caution. He explains that this is a description of the grief experienced by C.S.Lewis following the death of his wife. The title “A” Grief is therefore important - this is a personal account - not an attempt to define - or explain - grief universally. Despite this, I recognised much of what Lewis describes, either from my own (limited) experience of bereavement, or from what other people have told me about theirs.