Today is the Festival of All Saints in the church calendar. Ian Wallis places the teachings of Jesus known as the Beatitudes in the context of the various Jewish notions of holiness of his day to show how Jesus opens a window to what holiness can be, one that challenges us still today.

The choir sang Tallis' anthem 'If you love me, keep my commandments' at the opening of this service, and Helena Roulston pursues the theme in her sermon about what those commandments are about

This is Stewardship Sunday, the moment when we consider the resources our Church needs, and our contribution to them. Beth Keith urges us to do so in the context of today's readings, which are about: 'What does it mean to be holy?'

This Sunday is our Harvest Festival. Michael Bayley takes his inspiration from Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone’s book Active Hope to illuminate how gratitude is where we should begin.

In this season of Creation, Sam Cowling-Green examines, through the Biblical story of Jonah and Ninevah, how love has a geography, and grows out of our sense of place and belonging

In this season of Creationtide, Michael Bayley uses the experience recounted by Florence Allshorn, a missionary in Uganda, to illustrate what God's transforming love is all about.

There are things that are tough for us to hear, and as hard to put into practice. Jonathan Williamson takes us to the advice Paul sent to the Romans in this morning's epistle.

The word 'church' barely appears in the synoptic gospels. Focusing on Matthew 16.13–20, Ian Wallis examines why this is the case before exploring what this passage reveals about the church community behind this Gospel.

Felicity Cowling-Green takes the Zimbabwean theologian Isabel Mukonyora's experience of a 'sacred wilderness' as her starting-point for thinking about the parable of the Feeding of the Multitude

Today, we welcome Sasha Isabella Smith in baptism into the community of St Mark's, Jonathan Williamson examines the parable of the mustard seed.