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Guardians of Greenery

Catherine Tidnam, St James’s Gardener, explains how we achieved Green Flag Status.

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Eighteenth century etching of Ottobah Cugoano, a young black servant in London
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Thought for the Week – Cugoano250

Lucy Winkett writes about why we will gather on Sunday 20 August to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s baptism.

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The Revd Dr Ayla Lepine
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Thought for the Week – Mary Beale: Pioneering Portraits

Associate Rector, Ayla Lepine talks about the life and times of the English portrait painter Mary Beale, one of the few professional women artists in 17th-century London.

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Thought for the Week – The Three Sisters

This weeks’ Thought for the Week is brought to you by the Three Sisters – corn (or maize), beans and squash – in dialogue with their human partners. These plants, tended by First Nations Americans, have flourished together for millennia, providing food for both human and more-than-human creatures. As southern Europe bakes under extreme temperatures and monocrops wither in parched fields, what stories of survival and abundance do they have to tell?

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An illustration of St Francis wearing a brown habit with the hood up. He looks directly at the viewer with one hand raised showing his stigmata and holder a brightly coloured book in the other.
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St Francis: Radical Kinship

We celebrate St Francis as the saint who radically re-imagined our relationship
with the earth and the cosmos.

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Thought for the Week – On a beach in Cyprus

Brian Curnew, Coordinator of St James’s International Group, shares his experience of plastic pollution whilst vacationing in Cyprus.

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Lucy Winkett
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Thought for the Week – Wren Project

Lucy Winkett reflects on the Wren Project and the stories it helps us tell.

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The ‘Three Sisters’ in the Ecozoic garden are finally taking off!

In June, the Food For The Ecozoic Grow Box is finally taking off! The season has been a salutary reminder that agricultural/horticultural food production is not straightforward.

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