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 - Sing that Bittersweet Symphony

Marian Anderson by William H. Johnston, 1945 (Smithsonian Museum)

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 21st April 2024 (The Third Sunday after Easter) based on the text of 1 Peter 2.11-17 and John 16.16-22. You can listen to an audio recording of this sermon at this link.

Prayers for Hope and Healing

Christ healing the blind man, Andrei Mirnov, 2009

Prayers for healing and hope written for Morning Prayer at St Stephen Walbrook on Wednesday 18th November 2020, adapted from various sources. We pray for all affected by the coronavirus.

A Week of Psalms in New York - Psalm 30 at the World Trade Centre

Psalm 30 is the song of thanksgiving of someone who has survived a terrible crisis, the nature of which is ambiguous but clearly perilous; the psalmist states that their foes were rejoicing over them, that they were in the "Pit".