Bermondsey Vicar

We are in the midst of our Schools Week at St James this week. 15 classes of Key Stage 2 children, drawn from two local schools (Riversi...

It's been a long time coming, but thanks to Southwark Council, our local councillors and the Friends of St James's Churchyard, thr...

A double blessing for St James members, Connell and Bukkie - their beautiful twins, Adriel and Ayanna, baptised today, Trinity Sunday. M...

Our latest Men's Breakfast took place at St James today. A full cooked breakfast, plus a talk by Rob Barker on 'Birkenhead, born...

Over 600,000 copies have already been ordered of the book, The Servant Queen and the King She Serves. In her own words Her Majesty t...

Our week of prayer for Pentecost came to a wonderful conclusion tonight in Southwark Cathedral with the Diocesan Pentecost Service. The ...

Today as part of our Week of Prayer we had a prayer walk along the boundaries of our two parishes. From St James's Church we walked...

We are well into our week of prayer as part of the Archbishops' prayer initiative, Thy Kingdom Come. Last night we had a really good...

It was a bumper service at St James today with two families bringing their babies for baptism, another family coming for a thanksgiving for ...

Congratulations to London's new mayor, Sadiq Khan. The MP for Tooting went to Ernest Bevin School in the early 80s at the same time ...

Tomorrow is the beginning of a special national week of prayer called by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. In the week leading up to...

It's been sitting on the church history section of my bookshelves for many years. It's something of a classic, written in 1908, ...

From Twitter a photo of some of the Readers (Church of England lay preachers) from Southwark with Bishop Michael at All Souls, Langham Pla...

It was one of the founders of St James's Church who left a bequest for a painting for the east wall of the church on the theme of the ...

From tonight's annual meeting, a video of the year's highlights for St James and St Anne's churches:

Click on the picture for an enlarged view A friend sent me a photo of this map of Bermondsey showing St James's Church surrounded b...

On the occasion of her 90th birthday, ten quotations from the Queen, reflecting her heartfelt Christian faith ( (From Christian Today ) and ...

Bishop Michael came to St James's School today to dedicate the four new classrooms at Old Jamaica Rd, to meet the children, and to spe...

It's been a busy few days at St James's..... Sunday night and the church rocked with the Worship Night (left), organised by Fern...

Readers are official Church of England lay preachers and service leaders. They aren't 'Revs' but they are trained and licensed...