Thought for the Day-Freedom

Paul and Silas in Prison, Washington Allston, Kemper Art Museum

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 12th May 2026 based on the text of Acts 16.22-34.

Thought for the Day - God Feeds Us, God Frees Us, God Saves Us

Lambert Lombard - The Miracle of Loaves and Fishes

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields at 1pm on Wednesday 4th December 2024 based on readings from Isaiah 25.6-10a and Matthew 15.29-37.

Sermon : God save our gracious church!

Banksy, 2012, Upper Maudlin Street Bristol

God save our gracious church! A meditation on 2 Corinthians 3.4-18 through the words of the first verse of the national anthem, written for Evensong on the Feast of Pentecost and the end of The Platinum Jubilee celebrations at St Stephen with St John, Westminster on Sunday 5th June 2022.

Start:Stop - Raising the bar

The Creation of Animals - Paul Nash, 1924

Hello and welcome to this week’s Start:Stop reflection, helping you start your day by stopping to reflect for ten minutes. Through Lent we have been exploring the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, using as our guide the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book “Saying Yes to Life.” Our reading this morning describes the sixth day of creation: