Michaelmas Term 2022
Evensong Sermons
You are very welcome to come and hear the views of our preachers within the beautiful setting of Evensong on Sundays at 6.30pm.
Sunday 9 October
Sunday 16 October
Preacher: The Rev’d Helen Harknett
Priest-in-charge, St Philip’s Avondale Square, London
Helen joined St Philip and St Mark’s as Priest-in-Charge in November 2020. Originally from Wales, she trained for ministry at Wescott House, University of Cambridge.
Sunday 23 October
Preacher: The Rev'd Andrew Hammond
Chaplain, St John's College
For the Chaplain's own page click here.
Sunday 30 October
Preacher: The Rev’d Professor Jane Shaw
Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Professor of the History of Religion and Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Professor Shaw is Principal of Harris Manchester College, Professor of the History of Religion and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the University of Oxford.
Professor Shaw is an historian whose research and writing cover a number of areas: modern religion; the arts; gender; and the impact of technology on society.
She is the author of several books, including Miracles in Enlightenment England (Yale 2006) and Octavia, Daughter of God: the Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers (Jonathan Cape and Yale, 2011). She has just completed, with three colleagues, an interdisciplinary study of Generation Z (18 – 25 year olds), which will be published as Gen Z, Explained: the Art of Living in a Digital Age by University of Chicago Press in November 2021. She is currently writing a book about spirituality and religion in the early twentieth century.
Sunday 6 November
Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Leanne Roberts
Dean of Clergy Well-being, Southwark
The Rev'd Canon Leanne Roberts was appointed Dean of Clergy Well-being within the Diocese of Southwark in 2022, having been Canon Treasurer at the Cathedral, and also Director of Vocations and Diocesan Director of Ordinands for the Diocese of Southwark since 2011.
Born in South Wales, Leanne read music at Oxford University, then worked for a mental health research group before training for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge, while studying theology at Emmanuel College. She was ordained in 2002 in the Diocese of London, where she served her curacy, and in 2005 became Chaplain of Hertford College, Oxford. During her time there she was a Vocations Adviser for the diocese, an honorary chaplain with Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust, and received an MSt in Ecclesiastical History.
Leanne is particularly interested in preaching and spirituality. She is also in private practice as a Jungian psychotherapist.
Sunday 13 November
Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Dr Jessica Martin
Ely Cathedral
Jessica Martin is Residentiary Canon for Education and Outreach at Ely Cathedral. Before that she spent six years in parish ministry in South Cambridgeshire following an academic career as Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. She specialises in seventeenth century religious writing and early biography and has written about Izaak Walton, about devotional practices in early modern England, and about parish ministry and its challenges. She is completing a book on the nature of desire in the dedicated Christian life.
Sunday 20 November
Preacher: Dr Sarah Maxwell
Lay Chaplain, St John’s College School
Sarah Maxwell trained as a teacher at Homerton College and, after 3 years teaching at an Essex Primary School, joined the staff of St John’s College School in 1980, becoming Head of Religious Studies ten years later and the Lay Chaplain in 2010. On her retirement in 2018, the Headmaster invited her to continue her chaplaincy role at the School, an aspect of which led to involvement in the College’s “Virtual Chapel” services during lockdowns. Sarah’s doctorate examined the experience of gay clergymen in the Church of England and was subsequently adapted as a book, “Transcendent Vocation: Why gay clergy tolerate hypocrisy”.
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