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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
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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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Mondays 6.30pm – 7.30pm on Zoom
A new drop-in Bible study series focusing on trees in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
Who can join?
Anyone. This is a series, but it’s not a course. Anyone can join at any time, each session can stand alone: and participants can come to as few or as many sessions as they wish. It’s an opportunity for newcomers as well as long-standing members of the congregation to get to know one another and to support each other to grow in faith and in biblical and theological literacy, aware that the ‘Gospel of our lives’ is a profound and vital place to start.
Inspired by the Conversations Under Trees programme at St James’s throughout 2024, this Monday evening online Bible study series led by the clergy team is an invitation to explore trees in scripture across the Old and New Testament, as well as in the church buildings of St James’s Piccadilly and St Pancras Euston Road.
Emphasising the interdependence of humans with the natural world, we will see ourselves afresh through Scripture, made in the image of God and part of all creation. The structure for each session allows space for reflection, dialogue, contemplation, debate, and deepening faith together.
Through exploring the meanings and interconnections of trees in a wide range of biblical contexts together as partner churches, this is in itself an act of community-building, as well as learning.
Each session will encourage us to encounter scripture with our heart, head and feet.
With heart: conversations open with prayer and sharing life experience in relation to the texts or objects.
Next with our head: there will be opportunities to learn more about biblical studies and theology, weaving in a diverse and intersectional set of connections from many voices.
And finally, with our feet: each session will also address the importance of action and ways in which these biblical encounters may help us to live our lives well, attentive to justice, love, and hope in our complex world, in our communities, and in ourselves.
The sessions are in three parts: Old Testament, New Testament, and the interpretation of these themes found at St James’s and St Pancras. The third part focuses on tree imagery and wood in works of art at St James’s and St Pancras Euston Road, buildings we might be familiar with but have never looked at or learned from in this way before.
Session slides
Readings
Session 1 – Trees in Scripture
Session 3 – Trees in Scripture
Session 4 – Cedars of Lebanon
Session 5 – Rooted in God’s Earth
Session 7 – The Axe at the Root of the Tree
Old Testament
New Testament
Part 1 – Old Testament
Part 2 – New Testament
Part 3 –Trees and wood at St James’s and St Pancras
