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Sep 19, 2024 | 
ft.com | Lucy Winkett
History and theology don’t often make good bedfellows.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Lucy Winkett
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER wrote during the Second World War: “Choose and do what is right, not what fancy takes, not waiting the possibilities, but bravely grasping the real. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is their freedom. Come away from your anxious hesitations into the storm of events, carried by God’s command and your faith alone. Then freedom will embrace your spirit with rejoicing.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Lucy Winkett
Change of viewI HAVE now got two desks — as if one weren’t enough for the relentless admin that comes with being a parish priest these days. I sometimes envy those of my 17th- and 18th-century predecessors who collected butterflies most of the week, writing poetry and novels, even while based at the ever-bustling Piccadilly Circus.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
msn.com | Lucy Winkett
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sophie Haydock |Lucy Winkett
I knew it wasn’t a normal phone call. A man was asking if I could sing at a wedding he was organising. It was in 2000. Only a few years before, I’d become one of the first female priests ordained in the Church of England. There had been a lot of press coverage – positive and negative.For a time, it seemed I was the public face of the controversy around female priests and I didn’t like it.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Lucy Winkett
Spirit of ChristmasIT WAS an incident that the Revd Geraldine Granger of Dibley would have been proud to recount. The supermarket delivery arrived at the church offices on Christmas Eve, for the lunch that is served to all comers on Christmas Day. Food for 130 people was checked off. It was all there: the bags of carrots, potatoes, the nut roast, the turkey crowns, the pigs in their blankets. And the nine-and-a-half kilos of sprouts — but wait. . .
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Lucy Winkett
Double jeopardyONE of the ways of coping with the prospect of a busy autumn is knowing that August is quiet. Certainly, in central London, the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday office workers disappear altogether, to be replaced (for the first time, this year, since 2019) by millions of tourists from all over the world.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Lucy Winkett
Bean countersEVER since the legislation was passed that requires calories to be visible on menus, I have been agonising over my “flat white”. This Australian import had become my coffee of choice, in the thousands of coffee shops that pepper central London. But, now that I can see it’s so much worse for me than Americano or the smaller, stronger macchiato, it’s harder to choose it from the bewildering selection of coffee and tea with which St James’s is surrounded.
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Apr 7, 2023 | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Winkett
In common with many churches, St James’s Piccadilly, where I am Rector, holds concerts and other cultural events. A few weeks ago, I sat in the dark in the church, listening to original music played live by an artist I had never heard of before that night. The American singer-songwriter John Grant was performing as part of the Piccadilly Piano Festival curated by our new Creative Team. I had been intrigued because Grant advertised the gig on Instagram and it sold out in 30 minutes.
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Mar 23, 2023 | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Lucy Winkett
Time travellersWHATEVER you think of the controversial HS2 train project, some of the archaeology that it has stimulated has been fascinating, and, for St James’s, Piccadilly, especially so. The burial ground close to Euston Station, now known as St James’s Gardens, was in use between the years 1788 and 1852, and was begun because the site in Piccadilly had simply run out of space.
