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A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on May 28, 2023 by Revd Sally Hitchiner

A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on May 21, 2023 by Revd Dr Sam Wells

A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on May 15, 2022 by Revd Richard Carter

A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on May 1, 2022 by Revd Dr Sam Wells

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 2 May by Revd Sally Hitchiner.

The closest I have come to my 15 minutes of fame or infamy was when I attracted the criticism of Archbishop Cranmer – the contemporary blogger, not the 16th century Reformer – by exhibiting a crucified stormtrooper in a church as part of a contemporary exhibition of Stations of the Cross.

After the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, what event has changed the world more than anything else? Pentecost and the creation of the church? Maybe – but without our New Testament reading today most of us wouldn’t be sitting here, St Martin’s and most churches around the world wouldn’t have been built, and the church would still be a tiny sect within Judaism only reaching out to other Jewish people. Imagine a world without the global church. Today’s Gospel reading is probably the most important event we never think about.

The Singing Detective’ is a TV drama serial by Dennis Potter that was first shown in the 1980s. The story concerns Philip Marlow, a writer of detective novelettes in the style of Raymond Chandler including one also called ‘The Singing Detective’. At the beginning of the series Philip is confined to a hospital bed because of psoriasis, the skin and joint disease, which has affected every part of his body.