St Paul's Cathedral

Please note that due to copyright, musical pieces played at this reflective day have been edited out of this podcast. Recordings referred to are Ton Koopman conducting the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with artists including Peter Kooy (Bass/Jesus) and Kai Wessel (Alto Vocals), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus Wien with artists including Matthias Görne (Bass/Jesus), Oliver Widmer (Bass/Judas) Bernarda Fink (Alto) and Christine Schäfer (Soprano). (Some inaudible audience questions and comments have also been edited out.) Part 4: “In my beginning is my end” Aus Liebe (Harnoncourt edited out at 00.02.35.793 (with Christine Schäfer) Excerpt 9 – Final (Koopman edited out at 00.16.14.899) J.S. Bach is our greatest musical theologian. He wrote brilliant, innovative music, loved and performed as much today as ever, and also had a unique capacity to illuminate great spiritual and theological truths. His setting of St Matthew’s account of the Passion is not only an absolutely faithful telling of the whole narrative from Jesus’ anointing at the house of Simon the leper to the moment he is laid in the tomb, but also an extraordinary and expansive musical meditation on its meaning. Andrew Carwood is the Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral, an internationally regarded singer and conductor, and the Founder-Director of the award-winning early music ensemble The Cardinall’s Musick. Recorded on 17 March 2018.

Please note that due to copyright, musical pieces played at this reflective day have been edited out of this podcast. Recordings referred to are Ton Koopman conducting the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with artists including Peter Kooy (Bass/Jesus) and Kai Wessel (Alto Vocals), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus Wien with artists including Matthias Görne (Bass/Jesus), Oliver Widmer (Bass/Judas) Bernarda Fink (Alto) and Christine Schäfer (Soprano). (Some inaudible audience questions and comments have also been edited out.) Part 3: Telling the Story Excerpt 5 – Jesus’ ‘halo’ (Harnoncourt edited out at 00.03.56.400 (with Matthias Görne as Jesus)) Excerpt 6 – Jesus Forsaken (Koopman edited out at 00.06.32.816 (with Peter Kooy as Jesus)) Excerpt 7 – Peter (Koopman edited out at 00.15.06.356 (with Kai Wessel as Peter)) and Harnoncourt edited out at 00.16.54.141 (with Bernarda Fink) Excerpt 8 – Judas (Harnoncourt edited out at 00.22.46.937 (with Oliver Widmer as Judas) J.S. Bach is our greatest musical theologian. He wrote brilliant, innovative music, loved and performed as much today as ever, and also had a unique capacity to illuminate great spiritual and theological truths. His setting of St Matthew’s account of the Passion is not only an absolutely faithful telling of the whole narrative from Jesus’ anointing at the house of Simon the leper to the moment he is laid in the tomb, but also an extraordinary and expansive musical meditation on its meaning. Andrew Carwood is the Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral, an internationally regarded singer and conductor, and the Founder-Director of the award-winning early music ensemble The Cardinall’s Musick. Recorded on 17 March 2018.

Please note that due to copyright, musical pieces played at this reflective day have been edited out of this podcast. Recordings referred to are Ton Koopman conducting the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with artists including Peter Kooy (Bass/Jesus) and Kai Wessel (Alto Vocals), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus Wien with artists including Matthias Görne (Bass/Jesus), Oliver Widmer (Bass/Judas) Bernarda Fink (Alto) and Christine Schäfer (Soprano). (Some inaudible audience questions and comments have also been edited out.) Part 2: A New Song Excerpt 2 – Herr bin ichs? (Harnoncourt edited out at 00.10.32.732) Excerpt 3 – Sind Blitze, sind Donner (Koopman edited out at 00.16.05.150) Excerpt 4 – Pilate’s wife and the angry chorus (Harnoncourt edited out at 00.24.13.860) J.S. Bach is our greatest musical theologian. He wrote brilliant, innovative music, loved and performed as much today as ever, and also had a unique capacity to illuminate great spiritual and theological truths. His setting of St Matthew’s account of the Passion is not only an absolutely faithful telling of the whole narrative from Jesus’ anointing at the house of Simon the leper to the moment he is laid in the tomb, but also an extraordinary and expansive musical meditation on its meaning. Andrew Carwood is the Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral, an internationally regarded singer and conductor, and the Founder-Director of the award-winning early music ensemble The Cardinall’s Musick. Recorded on 17 March 2018.

Please note that due to copyright, musical pieces played at this reflective day have been edited out of this podcast. Recordings referred to are Ton Koopman conducting the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with artists including Peter Kooy (Bass/Jesus) and Kai Wessel (Alto Vocals), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus Wien with artists including Matthias Görne (Bass/Jesus), Oliver Widmer (Bass/Judas) Bernarda Fink (Alto) and Christine Schäfer (Soprano). (Some inaudible audience questions and comments have also been edited out.) Part 1: Singing the Passion Excerpt 1 – Opening Chorus (Koopman edited out at 00.31.32.971 and Harnoncourt edited out at 00.33.56.341) J.S. Bach is our greatest musical theologian. He wrote brilliant, innovative music, loved and performed as much today as ever, and also had a unique capacity to illuminate great spiritual and theological truths. His setting of St Matthew’s account of the Passion is not only an absolutely faithful telling of the whole narrative from Jesus’ anointing at the house of Simon the leper to the moment he is laid in the tomb, but also an extraordinary and expansive musical meditation on its meaning. Andrew Carwood is the Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral, an internationally regarded singer and conductor, and the Founder-Director of the award-winning early music ensemble The Cardinall’s Musick. Recorded on 17 March 2018.

Please note that this recording is of the second half of the workshop only - the first session involved too much audience participation to podcast. This recording refers to a handout which can be found at https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/Theologies-of-Liberation---handout.pdf and some pictures of Christ which are not available online due to copyright issues. Liberation Theologies begin with the reality of people’s lives. Originating in the experience of life in South American and African countries, they ask searching questions about the nature of God’s liberating love and our responsibility and relationship to each other. Considered controversial because they advocate a preferential option for the marginalised and oppressed, what can they teach us about how to live in God’s light as 21st century Christians? In this participative study afternoon, we will explore how the church can be a place of liberation, and how we as individuals can be allies and agents of change. Professor Anthony Reddie is a Learning and Development Officer for the Methodist Church and Professor Extraordinarius in Theological Ethics at the University of South Africa. He is the author of numerous books, including Black Theology (SCM Press) and Nobodies to Somebodies: A Practical Theology for Education and Liberation (Epworth Press). Recorded at St Paul's Cathedral on Saturday 5 May 2018.

God’s presence permeates our lives and activities, reverberating throughout all creation. Chris Webb says that it can be easy to miss that in the ordinariness of our daily lives but we can learn how to open ourselves to the presence of God and, despite all our weaknesses and failings, find new lives of freedom and joy. In this talk Chris Webb will explore ways to practise silence, prayer and reading Scripture through which we can experience God’s kingdom; not as far away, a remote and future promise, but here, now. The Revd Chris Webb OSB is Deputy Warden of Launde Abbey and Diocesan Spirituality Adviser to the Diocese of Leicester. His latest book God-Soaked Life: Discovering a Kingdom Spirituality (Hodder 2017) is an exploration of spirituality through the lens of Jesus' teaching on the Kingdom of God. Recorded 6 May 2018.

Sermon by Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, CEO, Christian Aid, at Evensong on the Sixth Sunday of Easter - 6 May 2018.

Sermon by The Reverend Prebendary Dr Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Priest in Charge, St Mary-at-Hill, London, at Sung Eucharist on the Feast Day of Philip and James, Apostles, Tuesday 1st May 2018.

Part 2 - Please note that this podcast has been edited to remove audience comments and questions which are inaudible. Handouts are referred to at the following places (click on link to see handout): 00.00.15.668 https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/caterpillar-handout.JPG 00.10.00.503 https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/meerkats-handout.JPG 00.22.24.706 https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/bluebells-handout.JPG 00.28.44.793 https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/Stonehange-handout.JPG The scientific consensus is that humans have been on the Earth for some 200,000 years of its 4,700,000,000 year history. There have been arguments about what this means for the creation stories in the Bible, but the growing understanding of the Earth’s history challenges us to expand all our ideas of God. In addition it raises fascinating and perplexing questions about, for instance, the Earth’s beauty and the violence which is also seemingly inherent to it. Why do so many of us find the natural world so beautiful? And is there an answer to the dilemma of the brutality that seems built into evolution –‘nature red in tooth and claw’? Michael Reiss will explore some of the questions that science and the study of evolution raise for us about the wonder of God’s world and our place in it. The Revd Professor Michael Reiss is a Bioethicist, Professor of Science Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London and a Priest in the Church of England. Recorded 10 March 2018.

Part 1 - Please note that this podcast has been edited to remove audience comments and questions which are inaudible. A handout is referred to at 00.18.38.704 - a copy of which can be found at https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/Giraffes-handout.JPG The scientific consensus is that humans have been on the Earth for some 200,000 years of its 4,700,000,000 year history. There have been arguments about what this means for the creation stories in the Bible, but the growing understanding of the Earth’s history challenges us to expand all our ideas of God. In addition it raises fascinating and perplexing questions about, for instance, the Earth’s beauty and the violence which is also seemingly inherent to it. Why do so many of us find the natural world so beautiful? And is there an answer to the dilemma of the brutality that seems built into evolution –‘nature red in tooth and claw’? Michael Reiss will explore some of the questions that science and the study of evolution raise for us about the wonder of God’s world and our place in it. The Revd Professor Michael Reiss is a Bioethicist, Professor of Science Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London and a Priest in the Church of England. Recorded 10 March 2018.