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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.
Thur 24 Oct 6.30pm
Fact, fiction, faith: AI in an uncertain world – a conversation with Jocelyn Burnham, and Dr Shauna Concannon.
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. This is a place for everyone who’s wondering about life’s big questions and striving for a better world.
We host a year-round cultural programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word, drawing on St James’s rich cultural history including artists, writers and musicians Mary Beale, Mary Delany, William Blake, Ottobah Cugoano and Leopold Stokowski.
We try to put our faith into action by educating ourselves and speaking out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, earth and racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
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.
It costs us £3,500 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us
Your donation will help us restore our garden in Piccadilly as part of The Wren Project, making it possible for us to welcome over 300,000 people from all faiths and walks of life seeking tranquillity and inspiration each year.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Millets are resistant to drought and adapt well to dry, infertile soils. They thrive in arid, semi-arid and sub-tropical areas of Africa and Asia. The seed is gluten-free, high in protein, fibre, carbohydrates and antioxidants, and can help manage diabetes, due to its low glycemic index.
Pearl Millet has been cultivated for 4,000 years and is believed to have originated from sub-Saharan Africa. It is rich in vitamin B and has the highest energy content compared to other millets. Today it is grown over 260,000 square kilometres of land and accounts for 50% of world millet production.
Sorghum (Great Millet) is a genus of about 25 grass species domesticated from a wild ancestor more than 5,000 years ago in what is today Sudan. 17 sorghum species are native to Australia.
In 2021, world production of sorghum was 61 million tonnes with the US as the lead grower. The red leaf-sheaths contain high levels of tannins that are used to dye leather and wool.
Finger Millet is native to Ethiopia and Uganda and can withstand cultivation at altitudes of over 2,000 meters above sea level. It is highly drought resistant and the grain can be stored for up to 50 years, which makes it an important crop in risk- avoidance strategies as a famine crop. It is mainly used as a whole grain flour and is rich in iron and calcium.
Foxtail Millet is the second-most widely grown millet species in Asia. The oldest evidence of cultivation is found in China dating from 8,000 years ago, but it was also grown from antiquity in India and later in East Siberia. Foxtail Millet needs to be soaked before consumption to remove certain compounds that block mineral absorption, but makes a good rice substitute, steamed and in soups. The seed colour varies greatly between varieties from light yellow to black. It is widely grown as a forage crop as hay or silage.
*U.N.’s World Meteorological Organisation and the EU’s climate agency, Copernicus, joint report published in April 2024.
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.
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.
In 2023 the south-facing, sun-drenched curtilage of the church becomes a new Grow Space featuring The Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash) growing on the railings. Many cultures have a version of this staple food combination, which sustainably provides carbohydrates, protein and vitamins/minerals.
