St Giles Society Events - May 2025

Join us for two fascinating talks in May as part of our "St Giles Society" programme of events.

Aldersgate Street to Tavistock Place: Methodist Leadership in London A talk by The Reverend Dr Jonathan Hustler, Secretary to the Methodist Conference Wednesday 14th May * TALK POSTPONED The Revd Dr Jonathan Hustler, Secretary of the Methodist Conference outlines the history of Methodist Leadership in London, including the Wesley’s connection to the parish of St Giles.

We are sorry but due to unforeseen circumstances this talk is postponed until a later date.

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God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England A talk by Bijan Omrani, author of Caesar's Footprints, about his new book 'God is an Englishman'. Thursday 22nd 2025 May 6.30pm Tickets Free available at this link. Bijan Omrani discusses his new book in which he shows how Christianity is the golden thread that stitches together England’s history. Copies of the book will be on sale.

This St Giles Society Talk is free but booking in advance advised. Please register for tickets at this link.

Refreshments available by donation.

Christianity in England is in decline. Congregations are dwindling and ever fewer young people believe. Should we merely shrug our shoulders and accept this as inevitable and even healthy, or is something important being lost? Bijan Omrani argues that this decline is the most momentous change to occur in English history. He shows how a religion that has been part of our national story for over 1700 years was instrumental in the creation and development of the English nation, its codes of law and morality, and its structures of government and kingship. He demonstrates its profound cultural impact, in areas ranging from architecture and literature to our very landscape and the structure of our everyday life and language. Its influence, he contends, has been enormous, largely benign, and shouldn’t be lightly abandoned. Ending with a rousing call to retain Christianity, rightly understood, as a way of dealing with both the eternal questions of the human condition, as well as the malaises of modernity, this is an erudite and tender tribute to our Christian history and heritage.

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Our next St Giles Society event - "The Irish History of St Giles" by Breda Corish - will take place in October 2025. Tickets available (£5) at this link.