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At this time of immense uncertainty in our church I have been touched by the waves of compassion, generosity and care demonstrated by members of our community.

Working at The Connection involves dealing with crisis all the time.

I write this listening to a blackbird sing outside my living room window.

This old adage couldn’t be more relevant, when daily images on the news express plainly what words alone cannot fathom.

I’m writing this from my beloved and broken Minneapolis.

Last year my partner, Christos, and I attended the baptism of our friends’ daughter at St Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Bayswater.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Those words, with which Charles Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities, sum up our experience of the last ten weeks at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

A painting by the Polish Jesuit philosopher and artist Vyacheslav Okun depicts Jesus in the emergency room, as a person suffering from the virus.

Lockdown has its challenges. One of mine has been teaching my grandson, aged 12, to solve ever more complex simultaneous equations over Whatsapp.