"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,...