Radio 4 Daily Service-Now in the Lord you are light

The earliest Morris & Company windows in Christ Church Southgate

It was a great privilege to present the Daily Service on Radio Four Extra on Wednesday 10th September 2025 as part of a week of programmes on the subject of Art and Spirituality. If you are in the UK you can listen to the recording on the BBC IPlayer at this link. The script of my reflection is below. Thank you to the producer, Andrew Earis. The photographs in this blog post are by Christine Matthews and John Salmon.

Daily Devotion - The Light of the World

The Light of the World, William Holman Hunt, 1904 (St Paul's Cathedral)

A Daily Devotion written for St Stephen's Rochester Row. 

The founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by the paintings of the fifteenth century that displayed minute attention to detail and were drenched in symbolism and story. The story of the most iconic painting to emerge from the movement is a fascinating account of how Victorian entrepreneurialism and the age of Empire created what became the most travelled artwork in history and one of the most recognised Christian images in the world. 

Start:Stop-Just In Time Christianity

The Wise and Foolish Virgins, Edward Burne-Jones (1859)

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 short bible reading which can be found on page 29 of the New Testament section of the bibles.