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  • Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023

    Sunday, 24th December 2023

    Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023: The Incarnation of Jesus Christ is not a myth. It’s a very particular sound-world. At Christmas, in the villages surrounding Rome, you can.

  • 37th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 25th May 2023

    Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

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  • 39th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 22nd May 2025

    Rhidian Brook gives the 2025 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, discussing Writing in good faith: a pilgrimage in fiction, film and thought.

  • The Sermon preached on the Day of Pentecost 2023

    Sunday, 28th May 2023

    The Sermon preached on the Day of Pentecost 2023: The Holy Spirit is the invitation to all people, in all their diversity, to share in the Power of all our powers. When.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2023

    Thursday, 18th May 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2023: Ascension Day declares the primary task of the Church universal, its true vocation. Ascension Day declares the primary task of the Church.

  • 34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 9th May 2019

    Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.

  • 38th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 23rd May 2024

    Canon Paula Gooder gives the 2024 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, discussing truth telling and storytelling

  • 35th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th November 2021

    Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

  • Sermon preached on the feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 2023

    Friday, 13th October 2023

    Sermon preached on the feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 2023: This is an astonishing place, and today we honour the Saint whose gift it is. On this day,.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2023

    Sunday, 9th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Easte Day 2023: Every broken fragment can now know healing in the light of Easter. The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has a new.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023

    Sunday, 16th April 2023

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023: The end of today’s second reading is perhaps the finest cliffhanger in history. The end of today’s second reading is perhaps.

  • Sermon given at the Solemn Liturgy on Good Friday 2023

    Friday, 7th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Solemn Liturgy on Good Friday 2023: We must see man and God. There is a story, from nineteenth-century France, about a young officer who made a bet. The.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist of Trinity Sunday 2023

    Sunday, 4th June 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist of Trinity Sunday 2023: ‘Firmly I believe and truly, God is three and God is one’ Today, in union with Christians throughout the world, we celebrate.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 30th July 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2023: Our life and our work can be given the dignity of revealing something of the kingdom of heaven. The.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 8th October 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: Discerning the will of God for our lives and obeying God’s commandments. Whoever says, ‘I abide in him’ ought to walk.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023

    Sunday, 5th November 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023: Naming God When I was interviewing potential undergraduate students to study theology, I would quite often ask them ‘How useful is.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2023

    Wednesday, 1st November 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2023: God will wipe away every tear. Today's readings centre on the theme of  "Praising God and thanking Him for His love.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2023

    Sunday, 12th November 2023

    Sermon preached at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2023: What kind of a nation are we and what direction do we want to move in? This is my commandment, that.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023

    Sunday, 16th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023: Peace be with you. When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week. That is.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023

    Sunday, 1st January 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2023: A reflection on a much-overlooked part of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Matthew, and encourages us to.

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