A chance to re-watch the first of our 'Advent & Art' course, in which we bring the themes of Advent into dialogue with works of art. This...

Mary Amy Deakin - Instagram at @amydpoetry Mary had never shown interest in babies so her mum thought she was crazy when she said she...

They’re taking the Christ out of Christmas Amy Deakin - Instagram at @amydpoetry They’re taking the Christ out of Christmas. Removing...

O come, O come Emmanuel Rescue your world and make all things well For us in isolation here Who groan in loneliness and fear: Rejoice,...

"We are invited to allow Mary to interpret the significance of her own child to us, rather than simply allowing the voices of men to...

A prayer for the Big Queer Carol Service, 2017

A sermon by Andy Fitchet, for the Big Queer Carol Service 2017

"The wild beasts and angels in the wilderness with Jesus and Satan give us an insight into the nature of Jesus’ ministry as it will...

Domenico Ghirlandaio's fresco Zechariah Writes Down the Name of His Son (1490, fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Florence) "The move from...

At our Carol Celebration on Friday (the day the election result was announced) Simon gave a short sermon on Herod: "We, too, live in a...

“Within the Christian story, the hope of Jeremiah and Isaiah is fulfilled in Jesus, who embodies God’s righteousness and justice,...

"The comfort proclaimed by Isaiah to the exiles in Babylon was no shallow Pollyanna-ish message of hope. Rather, it was a comfort based...

Revd Dr Simon Woodman, preaching at the Bloomsbury Carol Celebration 2018 "Mary, the teenage mother, gives voice to a dream of social...

"Matthew places God in his story in the person of the baby Jesus, a human at risk, on the run, helpless, innocent. This is deep theology,...

“There are few things I find more distressing than a Christian who believes they have only knowledge left to learn. You know the kind of...

"All of us who identify as people of faith - whatever faith group we belong to - encounter a system within society that tries to make us...

Eternal God of each present moment, we come before you at the turning of another year with diverse emotions and tentative hope. The past...

John 1:14-17 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of...

God of light and hope, of stars and surprises: open our eyes to your glory and our hearts to your presence, that we may respond with joy...

'We are released from the fantasy that that we have to rescue ourselves, make ourselves good enough, even when we know (albeit we never...