Thought for the Week: The heavenly banquet

Philip Allum looks at who comes to the party

by Philip Allum 25th September 2015

In the entrance to St James’s Church in Piccadilly are some words of welcome: ‘Our community is widely representative of partnered and single people, straight, gay and transgendered, those who have a sure Christian faith and those who struggle with belief… We believe that in the gospel is to be found a radical welcome, a great and generous invitation to share in the banquet of God’s creation.’ This struck me very profoundly and has been with me for some weeks.