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We offer daily services and a creative programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
We are delighted to announce that from 6 Jan until early Apr 2025, work will take place to reinstate the church’s South Door onto Jermyn Street, part of Sir Christopher Wren’s original design.
St James’s hosts inclusive services and a cultural programme. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
St James’s is a place to explore, reflect, pray, and support all who are in need. We are a Church of England parish in the Anglican Communion.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word.
We offer hospitality to people going through homelessness and speak out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
St James’s strives to advocate for earth justice and to develop deeper connections with nature.
We aspire to be a home where everyone can belong. We’re known locally and globally for our unique history and beauty, as well as faith in action, creativity and the arts, and a commitment to social and environmental justice.
We strive to be a Eucharist-centred, diverse and inclusive Christian community promoting life in abundance, wellbeing and dignity for all.
St James’s Piccadilly has been at the heart of its community since 1684. We invite you to play your part in securing this historic place for generations to come.
The work of St James’s, it costs us £5,000 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us.
New walkways, a restored courtyard and re-landscaped gardens will provide fully accessible, beautiful spaces for everyone to enjoy as well as improving our environmental performance.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Daily Bread was a community wheat-growing project that started in March 2020 during the lockdown and ran until Harvest Festival 2020.
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Daily Bread was a community wheat-growing project which ran from March 2020 until Harvest Festival 2020.
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Daily Bread was a community wheat-growing project connecting city-dwellers with food production, engaging with ecological and environmental concerns, and exploring humanity’s 10,000 year relationship with wheat.
Our wheat was blessed and sown in the courtyard at St James’s on Sunday 15th March 2020, and across London and beyond by members of our community. The very next week the country went into lockdown and care for the growing crop in Piccadilly fell to Lucy our Rector, the only person on site.
We celebrated Lammas and the ‘first fruits’ of the harvest on 2nd August. The bulk of our crop was harvested, threshed and winnowed in September ready for our Harvest Festival in October.
Throughout the project, we published colourful artistic reflections about our wheat, with art by Sara Mark, poetry by Diane Pacitti and scientific input by Deborah Colvin. All these are downloadable in the PDF library below.
Reflections about our wheat, with art by Sara Mark, poetry by Diane Pacitti and scientific input by Deborah Colvin.
Daily Bread
1. Fallow
2. Scatter
3. Germinate
4. Springing
5. Rising
6. Heaven and Earth
7. Tillering
8. Breadth
9. Blakefull
10. Rogation
11. Elongation
12. Expecting
13. Flowering
14. Extraordinary
15. Adamah and Eve
16. How to Harvest
17. Lammas
18. Soil
19. Community
20. Diversity and continuity
21. Conform and transform
22. Famine
23. Harvest fire
24. Harvest home
25. Gleaning
26. The great chain of being
27. Reaping
28. Harvesting art
29. To create one grass blade
30. Hexameron
31. Radical sabbath
A video reflection by artist Sara Mark
Prof Kate Rigby, Director of the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, gave a talk about the Daily Bread project in November 2020.
Come and join our online Ecozoic Book Group for what promises to be a season of lively ecumenical discussions! We will be exploring in more depth some of the themes raised by the ‘CHANGING OUR MINDS’ series of conversations with academics, theologians and indigenous thinkers from Northern America and Australia.
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In this second series of online conversations exploring ways into an Ecozoic future, four wise and respected Australian elders share their experience, commitments and vision, inviting us to connect to Country.
As we head into an uncertain future, one thing we do know is that Europe is the fastest-warming continent, with temperatures rising at roughly twice the global average.
Join us for a four-part series of online conversations with indigenous thinkers, and contemporary theologians who are passionate about Earth Justice, to explore how we might go about CHANGING OUR MINDS.