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We offer daily services and a cultural programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate
Tuesday 1 September – end of October
Losing Identity explores the silent grief and resilience of women fleeing Ethiopia and Eritrea across the Mediterranean Sea in unsafe, overcrowded boats.
Monday 7 September 1.10pm
Anna Cooper (soprano) and Robert Nicholas (baritone) present Menotti’s opera, The Telephone, directed by Harrison Knights and musical directed by Michael Haslam (pianist).
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 aim to be a place where you can belong. We have a unique history, and the beauty of our building is widely known. Our community commits to faith in action: social and environmental justice; creativity. and the arts
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 £5,000 each day to keep the doors of St James’s open to all who already need us.
A reimagined St James’s realised. A redesigned garden, courtyard and new building capacity—all fully accessible— will provide beautiful spaces for all as well as improving our environmental performance.
Whether shooting a blockbuster TV series or creating a unique corporate event, every hire at St James’s helps our works within the community.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Friday 9 October 6.30pm
Exploring the relationship between Christian faith and sexuality from non-affirming to fully-inclusive ministry.
My journey towards becoming fully myself in Christ This is a story of grace and unexpected reconciliation. I will be telling something of my own journey: from recognising that I was gay at an early age, through years of believing that my sexuality was something I needed to overcome, involvement in the ex-gay movement and a marriage to a woman which ultimately proved painful for both of us. I will talk about what gradually led me to question beliefs I had once held with great conviction, why I eventually became affirming, and what I have learned from recognising the harm that sincere but mistaken Christian teaching can cause.
Today I am happily married to a man, while remaining on loving terms with my former wife and her husband. Most importantly, the journey has not led me away from Christian faith but much more deeply into it. I have come to see Jesus increasingly as the clearest revelation of what God is like—a discovery which eventually became the heart of my recent book, If You’ve Seen Me, You’ve Seen the Father. I hope to share something of how losing one understanding of Christianity ultimately enabled me to discover a faith that has become more spacious, truthful and deeply rooted in Christ.
Short biography Jeremy Marks is a writer, speaker and spiritual director who has spent much of his life exploring the relationship between Christian faith and sexuality. In 1988 he founded Courage, originally as a ministry seeking to help gay Christians live a celibate life or even become heterosexual. But in 2000 he publicly acknowledged that this approach was causing harm and that he could no longer support it. Since then he has worked to encourage a more compassionate and affirming understanding of LGBT people within the Church. He is the author of If You’ve Seen Me, You’ve Seen the Father, which explores how Jesus has transformed his understanding of God, Scripture and the Christian life.
There will be time for questions and answers.
