Westminster Abbey and Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The Abbey remains open for worship and you are welcome to join us at our daily Eucharist service if you are able to travel here safely within current government guidelines.
However, for the time being we are unable to open the Abbey and St Margaret’s Church for general visiting.
Past Institute lectures
Hope
The capacity to hope is common to human experience, and often confounds easy answers. Hope looks beyond the present, and may be found in the darkest of situations. Hope can inspire, support perseverance, and motivate change. Without hope, our capacity to build good relationships is curtailed. But as a virtue, it needs to be nourished and curated. On what basis, if any, is it possible to be hopeful today? What values can help to build hope where it is in short supply? Where is hope to be found in public life? What will kindle hope in the hearts of public servants and public service institutions, and how can they foster that hope in the people they serve? What role can faith communities play in this?
Lectures
What is hope?
The Reverend Dr James Hawkey, Canon of Westminster
A contemplation of Hope
Jenny McCarthy, journalist and author
Audio recording
Hope in Society
Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and Baroness D’Souza
Charles Gore Memorial Lecture: A Theology of Hope for the 21st Century
Professor Jürgen Moltmann, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, University of Tübingen, and The Reverend Dr James Hawkey, Canon of Westminster
Audio recordings
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