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  • The Challenge of Bioethics to Decision-Making in the UK

    A lecture for the Von Hugel Institute series ‘Ethics in Public Life’, 5th February 2015, given by Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director, Westminster Abbey Institute.

  • Sermon Given at Evensong Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Re-organisation of Local Government in London

    Sunday, 8th March 2015

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Podcast

    Westminster Abbey's podcast is a mix of sermons, services and reflections, plus lectures on issues of faith, ethics and policy from the Westminster Abbey Institute.

  • Truth

    In the world of public service, trustworthiness, dependability, wise decision-making and solid relationships all depend upon truth.

  • 21st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2006

    Delivered by The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 11th May 2006 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • Social engagement policy

    Westminster Abbey is committed to an active programme of social engagement. Social engagement means the Abbey’s engagement with the wider world in ways which contribute generally to human flourishing and specifically to social justice.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2025

    Sunday, 18th May 2025

    This is the Lord’s commandment; and if you keep it, it is enough.

  • Sermon Given at the Evening Service on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2015

    Sunday, 4th January 2015

    Sermon given by The Reverend Tony Kyriakides, Chaplain.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2019

    Sunday, 26th May 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2019: ‘Those who love me will keep my word.’ We all believe that words matter. They are memorable, they build connections,.

  • Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018

    Friday, 30th March 2018

    Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018: Why should the tortured death of one man on a cross 2000 years ago on a scrubby hill in the Middle East matter to us.

  • 18th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 8th May 2003

    Delivered by The Reverend Professor Duncan B Forrester, New College, The University of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2003 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2021

    Thursday, 13th May 2021

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day 2021: We are made for freedom—made to soar—made to share the unlimited life of heaven. For several years I worked in a school for.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2020

    Sunday, 18th October 2020

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2020: Even the Dean of Westminster could not, should not tell you what the outcome will be. I grew up in.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2018

    Sunday, 15th July 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2018: Who’s in charge? It can matter quite a lot. Who’s in charge? Sometimes the question is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2006

    Tuesday, 23rd May 2006

    It is a proper tribute to Charles Gore, Canon of Westminster, bishop successively of three dioceses, founder of the Community of the Resurrection and distinguished theologian, that a lecture should be named in his honour.

  • Sermon Given at a Service of Thanksgiving to Mark the Centenary of Blind Veterans UK

    Tuesday, 6th October 2015

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2015

    Sunday, 5th April 2015

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021

    Sunday, 6th June 2021

    Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021: How is your soul? It would have been a tough job description; who could have sustained this calling? When God called Jeremiah,.

  • Sermon Given at Matins on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2015

    Sunday, 14th June 2015

    Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon in Residence.

  • 4th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Monday, 15th May 1989

    Delivered by Professor Rowan Williams, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford at Westminster Abbey on Monday the 15th May 1989.

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