Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1499-1510 'The language of God as creator is a reflection God’s own gender diversity. The logos is...

"The significance of God bringing life where it has no right to be, is that God does this, not us. What if we aren’t ‘God’s fixers’ after...

"As we work for the welfare of the city to which we have been sent in exile, we discover the capacity to love, to hope, and to embody...

'In Christ God draws alongside us; in Jesus God moves into our neighbourhood, meeting us in our failure, our sin, and our incompetence;...

"For all the familiarity we have with the Nativity story, a lot of people miss an aspect of its significance that gives us hope in our...

Isaiah 9.6-7; 61.1-11 Listen to this sermon here: https://soundcloud.com/bloomsbury-1/light-in-the-darkness This week, we are bringing to...

'As we await the birth of Christ, the coming God to humanity, we wait in solidarity with exiles, in unity with those who suffer and...

"The ideologies of consumerism and militarism are insidious, violent, and all-embracing; and we are called to resist, to live out in our...

"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 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...

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...

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

We get sent all over the place; we get sent to all kinds of people; we get sent to say all kinds of things....but whatever else we say,...

It sounds very romantic and cosy, when I hear people talk about; watching over our flocks in the fields by night and all that. But, as I...

Read by The Revd Dr Simon Woodman Bloomsbury Carol Celebration 2017

It was fine for Zecheriah - he may have lost his voice, but at least he was married, he was respectable, he knew what was going on, and...

Speed-drawing of 'Light in the Darkness', a meditation on the prologue to John's Gospel; accompanied by the Bloomsbury Chamber Choir...

I had so looked forward to my week in the Temple. It only came round occasionally - there are so many of us with the right to serve at...

Many ancient Jews believed that God looked like their kings, and so they described God in terms of having a heavenly court, and sitting...

"We need saving from the compulsions that determine who we are when we are acting unreflectingly; or distort who we are, even when it’s...

"God moves in the mundane, and the small things… and I think about all the stuff you do – the ripples, and the stories, and the line of...

"This is how Jesus came, it is how he still comes, and it is how he will come again, and again, and again. The light of the world comes...

"Maybe the task before each of us is that of ‘keeping the rumour of God alive’, where the power of words is used to keep alive the story...

"The claim that Jesus is the true king of the earth presents a direct challenge to all other earthly claims to power. If we think of the...

Take the news of a royal wedding, or the announcement of the expectation of yet another royal baby; both topics which have dominated our...

"This is a messiah for all people, not just for powerful men. He is a messiah for those whom society devalues, a messiah for shepherds...

"For Mary, this teenage mother the call of God on her life was far from straightforward! The signs of promise were there but they were...

"We have too many deal-makers in positions of power who would do a deal with the devil himself if it ensured their ongoing appearance of...

Reflection by Simon Woodman for Christmas Eve Midnight Communion Service, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 2015. "God is love. But this...

"Part of the problem with speaking of belief in God, is that there are so many definitions of God that we are invited to believe in....

On Sunday it was a privilege to welcome Sheikh Pervez to the waters of Baptism. You can hear his testimony here