Thought for the Day-Marked by God's Mercy

Detail of East Window of St Olave Hart Street

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service at St Olave Hart Street on Ash Wednesday 18th February 2026 at 12.30pm based on the texts of Joel 2.1-2, 12-17 & Matthew 6.1-6, 16-21

Thought for the Day-All the World's a Stage?

Actor’s Mask, Paul Klee, 1924, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

A Thought for the Day offered at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 27th August 2025 based on the text of Matthew 23.27-32

Prayers of Intercession - Love that shows no variation or shadow

Chila Kurami Singh Burman, Remembering A Brave New World at Tate Britain, 2020. Photo by Joe Humphrys. 

Prayers of Intercession written for the Sung Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 2nd September 2021 ((Year B, Trinity 13, Proper 17) based on readings from Mark 7.1-8, 14, 15, 21-23 and James 1.17-end.

A reflection on Psalm 12

The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind (As You Like It - Act IV Scene I) by Walter Howell Deverell 

Have we made all the world a stage?

Addicted to our own applause? 

Do we owe our Sunday Best to a child refugee?

Who gave us virtues to be seen - or not to be seen : what is the answer?

We cannot ask the faithful - they have been cast out.