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Stories from St Paul's: The Great Model
Today’s podcast episode is all about the Great Model hiding up in our Triforium. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren to demonstrate his plans for the new...
We believe... The Nicene Creed 1,700 years on - Oct 2025
[This talk makes reference to a handout which you can find at https://www.stpauls.co.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/Ludlow%20Nicaea%20handout.pdf]
Churchill and St Paul's: Icons of the finest hour - Sept 2025
Like Churchill himself, St Paul’s Cathedral defied the Blitz and stood as a beacon of hope in the darkest days of the Second World War. Allen Packwood...
Living the Psalms today - Sept 2025
Some of the psalms were written as much as 3,000 years ago in a world very different to our own. So how do we read them? And what does a psalm read li...
Stories from St Paul’s: The Crypt
There are crypts, and then there are crypts. The largest crypt in Europe is none other than our very own here at St Paul's. But what is a crypt for, a...
This is my body, broken for you, Jesus and trauma - July 2025
What has Jesus to do with trauma? Many people who experience trauma find solidarity in Jesus' experiences. Some would even claim that Jesus is a traum...
Flourishing? Women's bodies and the history of Christianity - June 2025
Over the course of Western history, how have religion and medicine worked together to tell women how their bodies work, and what they should do with t...
Truth , faith and politics in a post-truth world: exploring Bonhoeffer today - May 2025
80 years after Dietrich Bonhoeffer's execution in Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1945, Rowan Williams reflects upon how his legacy could help the c...
Boys will be boys audio
Are men facing a "crisis," and what does that mean for us all? Will Rose-Moore explores what it really means to be a man today, how "masculinity" isn'...
Resurrection Hope: wrestling with questions of justice - Apr 25
‘Hope shows up when we are fighting for justice. Hope shows up when we show up making clear that the way things are is not the way they are destined...
Bonhoeffer and Discipleship following Jesus today Apr 25
On 9th April 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was killed in Flossenbürg concentration camp. A German Lutheran pastor and theologian, he was imprisoned for hi...
The Girl from Montego Bay - Apr 25
Rose Hudson-Wilkin is the Church of England’s first black woman bishop. Overcoming challenging beginnings in Jamaica and discrimination in the UK, she...
Stories from St Paul's: Grinling Gibbons
Who was Grinling Gibbons? Not just a man with a fantastic name, but also the master carver behind the incredible carvings around the Cathedral, includ...
Stories from St Paul's: Edith Cavell
Edith Cavell was a nurse who became a symbol of courage around the world.
In 1915, she was executed for helping Allied soldiers escape -...
The Sacraments: Responding to God's Loving Invitation - March 2025
Jane Williams says that the sacraments are a glorious expression of God’s love for the world in all its beauty and brokenness. They invite us into the...
Healing Wounds: an invitation to Lenten contemplation - Feb 2025
The question of suffering has always been something with which people have wrestled. In his 2025 Lent book, Healing Wounds, Erik Varden attempts to of...
Unmaking Mary - Feb 2025
For two thousand years, the Virgin Mary has been depicted throughout art, literature and culture as symbolising the perfect mother: chaste, beautiful,...
Seeking The God Beyond: A Beginner's Guide to Apophatic Spirituality - Feb 2025
Janet Williams introduces the tradition of apophatic spirituality and explores its relevance to 21st century Christian life.
The Revd Dr...
Stories from St Paul's: Walter de la Mare
Did you know that world famous poet and writer, Walter de la Mare was a one-time Chorister of St Paul’s? Born in Charlton, South London, in 1873, de l...
Stories from St Paul's: The telescope in the tower
When is a cathedral not a cathedral? Answer: When it might also be the venue for a grand scientific experiment! Explore Sir Christopher Wren's vision...
Martin Luther King Jr: History Maker - Dec 2024
Martin Luther King Jr’s memory is revered, but in his time he was a radical, controversial figure, sharply critical of militarism, inequality and pove...
Stories from St Paul's: Our nativity scene
Found in the Cathedral every festive season is the St Paul’s nativity scene. Discover its very special story which begins in 1989, when former Master...
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity - Nov 2024
Few matters produce more public interest or division than sex and religion. Revolutions in attitudes in the last generations have brought liberation t...
Eternal Rest Grant Them: Music, faith and grief - Nov 24
Grief and grieving are universals, and on All Souls’ Day we hold before God those we hold dear in death as in life. Requiem settings for the Eucharist...
Stories from St Paul's: The Gunpowder Plotters
‘Remember, remember, the 5th of November: Gunpowder, treason and plot.’ The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is synonymous with the Houses of Parliament in West...
Money, race and climate: challenging the extractive economy - Sept 2024
Themed around ‘Money, race and climate’, this film is of an event organised by the Just Money Movement and hosted by St Paul's Cathedral during Good M...
Gen Z And The City - Oct 2024
A panel discussion to launch a new partnership between St Paul’s Cathedral and the educational charity Cumberland Lodge, which examines the values dr...
A Manifesto For Hope - Oct 24
Steve Chalke talks about his work in communities and education that changes young people’s lives.
Marilynne Robinson: Reading Genesis - September 2024
Marilynne Robinson’s new book 'Reading Genesis' is a profound meditation on the first book of the Bible. In it she explores both its greatness as lite...
Three Dimensions of a Complete Life: Martin Luther King for this moment - Sept 2024
On 6th December 1964, Dr Martin Luther King Jr preached to a packed St Paul’s Cathedral. On a flying visit on his way to Norway to collect his Nobel P...
Bede and the Theory of Everything - Sept 2024
The Venerable Bede (c. 673 – 735) was the foremost scholar of the Middle Ages. A saint, historian, scientist, social reformer and translator of the Bi...
Stories from St Paul's: The Light of the World
Autumn 2024 will see one of the most significant pieces of art in our collection back on display inside St Paul’s following a period of conservation w...
The Spirituality of Jane Austen: a workshop at St Paul’s Cathedral (Part Two)
The Revd Paula Hollingsworth examines Jane Austen’s spirituality, faith and values through her novel 'Pride and Prejudice'.
Paula Holli...
The Spirituality of Jane Austen: a workshop at St Paul’s Cathedral (Part One)
The Revd Paula Hollingsworth explores Jane Austen’s life and faith, looking at her major novels and the spiritual themes that run through them.
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Stories from St Paul's: The bells of St Paul's
The bells of St Paul’s are a sound familiar to many who find themselves in the City of London, and the stories behind them reflect our rich history. G...
What Is Hope? - June 2024
We live in times that challenge hope. Climate change, pandemic, racism, war and injustice: in the face of these, where we find hope is an urgent quest...
A Talk by the Revd Professor Wilda C. Gafney - May 2024
A talk by renowned biblical scholar and womanist theologian, the Reverend Professor Wilda C. Gafney on the story of Hannah and Peninnah in the Hebrew...
A Liberation Movement For The Earth - May 2024
How do we build a movement of the people of God? If we turn to the earliest days of Christianity, we can find wisdom for how we can mobilise as Christ...
Have A Little Faith - April 2024
Kate Bottley talks about her own life and faith; about hope, being human, having doubts, getting through life’s hard bits, celebrating the great bits,...
Stories from St Paul's: Canon John Collins
Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral for 33 years, John Collins was a remarkable priest and social reformer who was one of the world's leading proponents in t...