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Cugoano commemorative plaque

The Cardozo Kindersley workshop have produced this rough-hewn slate plaque to mark the 250th anniversary of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s baptism.

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The Three Sisters: a mutual thriving

Joan Ishibashi shares the importance of the Three Sisters in American farming and food – maize, beans and squash.

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Revd Natasha Beckles
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Thought for the Week – Cugoano’s baptism

The Revd Natasha Beckles reflects on the meaning of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s baptism in St James’s for our church today.

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Thought for the Week – An Unexpected Journey

Ben Bloom shares his experience of discerning his vocation to ordained ministry.

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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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