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….

Lent Quiet Hour - Week 2

Christ in the Desert by Ivan Kramskoi, 1872

Poems, prayers and readings for our Lent Quiet Hours in the First Week of Lent, based on ‘temptation’, the theme of the Gospel reading for the First Sunday of Lent.