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A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 20 December 2020 by Revd Dr Sam Wells.

A Sermon preached at Bread for the World on 27 May 2020 by the Revd Catherine Duce.

A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 26 April 2020 by the Revd Dr Sam Wells.
Reading for this address: Luke 24: 13-35.

How can we find forgiveness? How can we restore a relationship when we’ve done something terribly wrong?

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead thou me on;

The exhibition of Anthony Gormley’s life work at the Royal Academy of Arts is a must-see.

The 2019 film, The Professor and the Madman, set in London, beginning in 1872, tells the story of an American surgeon and Civil War veteran, William Chester Minor, who, in a fit of paranoid rage, wrongly believing there to be a plot to murder him, shoots and kills George Merrett, leaving a widow, Eliza, and six orphaned children.

Those of you who have read the flyer, for our Autumn Lecture series will have seen that our theme is the quality of mercy. Mercy feels a slightly anachronistic word today, in a culture and political backdrop which often appears to be one of blame, hostility and increasing division.