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A Singing Assembly for Harvest, with an address by the Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, Dr Paula Gooder, led by Tom Daggett and sung by the Vicars Choral. Learn the hymn 'Come, ye thankful people, come'.

Sharon Prentis asks what a saint is, and what it means if the saints you see depicted in church don’t look like you. She explores ideas of sainthood and uncovers stories of holy, inspired and inspiring lives from all over the world.

Panelists from academia, the Church, culture and finance consider the interplay between belonging and flourishing, reciprocity and service, at a time when freedom of movement and labour markets are shifting. Filmed post-Brexit referendum in 2016. Part of St Paul’s Institute’s series ‘Democracy and the Common Good’.

With the help of an audience of 90 students, Harvard Philosophy professor Michael Sandel draws out key philosophical principles relating to the common good and globalisation: the nature of our responsibilities and obligations to those near and far; how solidarity might be defined and embodied in a globalised world and what might be the extent of, or perhaps limits to, our compassion.

Novelist Catherine Fox and Biblical theologian Paula Gooder talk about the importance of stories in understanding ourselves, the world, faith and even God. They talk about their writing lives, the power of good stories to change us, and explore some of their favourite Bible stories.

David Suchet’s dramatic reading of the whole of Mark’s Gospel, recorded live in St Paul’s Cathedral.

Paula Gooder explores what a ‘spirituality of ordinariness’ might be, and we how we can find God in our everyday lives. The church has long season of ‘Ordinary Time’ between Easter and Advent, and she explores the wisdom to be found in embracing our own ordinary times, in prayer, in life and in the church.

Paula Gooder explores what angels are and what they do in the Old and New Testaments.

An academic seminar titled 'Contemplation in the city: some modern approaches to prayer in the urban landscape' in which Rowan Williams talks about about Madeleine Delbrêl. Part of the Koinonia lectures for 2022-23, co-organised by the Diocese of London, St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, which offer an opportunity to engage with the latest research from a wide range of theological and ecclesiological thinkers.