'The Table is the Method...'

A talk on food, hospitality and our monthly community lunch by Madeleine Ballard on August 22nd 2026.

Jesus got himself killed, in part, over who he ate with. The serious religious people of his day kept a running account of the meals he should not have been at. We heard in our reading today in Luke 19 how he ate at the house of a tax collector named Zacchaeus, a man who had grown rich by squeezing his own neighbours and had the occupying power enforce it.

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The Way of Empathy

A Talk by Nat Ayewah
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In February 2025, the gospel reading was from Luke 6:27-38 (The Message translation) and our second reading was a poem, Love and Fear, by Michael Leunig.

Nat Ayewah talked about The Way of Empathy: 'A modern reading of this passage might be that in the face of conflict, we should be aware of and in control of our emotions, we should walk in the shoes of our aggressors, and we should relate with and influence our disagreeable neighbors.’

Heaven in Ordinary

A Talk by Malcolm Doney
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In December 2024 we unveiled the painting ‘Red Herring’ at St Luke’s, a work commissioned in honour of the Rev Tim Pigrem who was vicar of the parish of St Luke’s West Holloway for more than twenty years until the early 1990’s.

 We also invited Malcolm Doney, the painter of Red Herring, to speak in our morning service.