The Quality of Mercy in Poetry

Part of the annual Autumn Lecture Series. Poet-priest Malcolm Guite is Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He lectures widely in England and North America on Theology and Literature. He has published poetry,…

Part of the annual Autumn Lecture Series. Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain’s most loved actors. His acting career began in Edinburgh, and from there with the RSC. He has performed numerous times at the National Theatre, and won Olivier awards for…

Part of the annual Autumn Lecture Series. Lucy Winkett was ordained in 1995, having previously been a professional soprano. Her early ordained ministry was spent at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, where she was a Minor Canon and chaplain and the Canon Precentor. Since…

Part of the annual Autumn Lecture Series. The Quality of Mercy in Story- speaker Michael Morpurgo with a response from Revd Dr Sam Wells Michael Morpurgo is an author, poet and playwright who has written over 130 books including The Butterfly Lion, Kensuke’s…

Part of the annual Autumn Lecture Series Winnie Varghese is a priest on the Strategic Clergy team at Trinity Church Wall Street. Previously, she was the rector of St. Mark’s in the Bowery, a historic Episcopal congregation in New York City. From 2003-09,…

Part of the annual Autumn Lecture Series Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former pastor and teacher, he is the author of numerous hugely influential books, including the award-winning A New Kind of Christianity, We Make the…

St Martin-in-the-Fields, together with the Chinese Speaking Congregations of St Martin’s, is organising an occasional series of art talks focusing on aspects of Chinese Art. The fourth lecture in this series will be on ‘Pots and thrones: ritual bronze vessels of the Shang and…

The Confessions of St Augustine is one of the greatest spiritual autobiographies written, and has had a significant impact on the church. For the 2019 Lent Course, we will be guided through the text, with this fresh translation by Benignus O’Rourke OSA,…

St Martin-in-the-Fields, together with the Chinese Speaking Congregations of St Martin’s, is organising an occasional series of art talks focusing on aspects of Chinese Art. The third lecture in this series will be on ‘The meaning of decoration on Chinese Ceramics’ and will…