Renewal One of the great advantages of living in London is that one can pop into the National Gallery to look at just one room, or even just one painting. Room 63 is one that I keep on going back to. The paintings in this room are all connected with the city of Venice […]
Mother Teresa Mother Teresa of Calcutta was in fact not from Calcutta but from Skopje the capital of what is now North Macedonia. Teresa and her family belonged to an Albanian Christian minority in that city. As a nun and missionary, she was sent to Calcutta in 1929, then still part of the British […]
Thank God for St Valentine! Not much is known of the Roman martyr St Valentine. He lived in the third century, he was a Bishop, and he was killed for his Christian faith, his day has always been kept on the 14th of February and his […]
I’ve been preaching for over fifty years, but I’ve only been interrupted once. It was in Port Antonio, a Jamaican port that had once been a hub of the slave trade. ‘What about slavery?’ a lady shouted from the back of the church. I was lost for words and continued my sermon, which was about […]
St Paul is a very special Saint. He is so special that he doesn’t actually get a day for himself in the calendar of Saints. He has to share one with his great fellow saint St Peter, with whom he not always got on well during his lifetime, and that is putting it mildly, they […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
