Memorial service for Stephen Lawrence
St Martin in the Fields
"Mum, you care too much" – Stephen's words said with a mixture of affection and mischief and recalled by his mother. Hearing about him from Doreen I should like to have known him as some here did. A young man with proper ambitions whose life was cut short by his cruel murder.
Funeral of Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
St Paul's Cathedral, 17 April 2013
After the storm of a life lived in the heat of political controversy, there is a great calm.
Licensing of The Rt Revd Jonathan Baker
St Dunstan's in the West
"What manner of child shall this be?"
Easter Day 2013
St Paul's Cathedral
The Bishop of London's Easter morning sermon.
Chrism Mass
St Paul's Cathedral
"Lord let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and dung it."
Ash Wednesday
St Paul's Cathedral
Ash Wednesday is itself a mixture of light and shade. It is the beginning of what the holy fathers called the "sad springtime of the Christian year".
Christmas message to the Diocese
London Christmas
In his annual Christmas message to the Diocese, Bishop Richard reminds clergy and churchgoers across London of the importance of the Church’s work with the community.
Opening of St Mellitus St Jude’s hub
St Jude Courtfield Gardens
When Synodical squalls have been relegated to a footnote in some dusty tome or dimming e-book, what we do this evening will be remembered as the beginning of a significant movement in the life of the Christian community in this world city and beyond.
Women in the Abrahamic religions as peace-makers
Fatima Conference, House of Lords
It is a very great privilege to have been invited to contribute to this conference on this crucial theme. My experience through the St Ethelburga Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in the City of London involving representatives of all those who in their different ways look back to Abraham as their ancestor in faith suggests that we can be natural allies in the search for a peace which goes beyond the absence of conflict and points to that wholeness which is God’s will for the world he loves.
Olympic Truce
St Martin-in-the-Fields
The Bishop of London joined Archbishop Vincent Nichols at the close of a '100 Days of Peace' prayer vigil in St Martin in the Fields church.
