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  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday of Lent 2018

    Sunday, 4th March 2018

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

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2019

    Sunday, 25th August 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2019: We need to recover a profound sense of the awe and wonder of God. One of the points of contention.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2019

    Sunday, 22nd December 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2019: Where we have come from and where we belong now? As we stand on the brink of Christmas, many of us here.

  • Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday of Christmas 2019

    Sunday, 29th December 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday of Christmas 2019: We travel in faith, for the nativity story is one of journeys. The great Christmas story is still ringing in our ears,.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2021

    Sunday, 25th July 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2021: The song that Jesus sings is a redemptive song—a song of love and mercy. You will have noticed we.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2022

    Sunday, 19th June 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2022: There has been much talk of borders in recent weeks. There has been much talk of borders in recent.

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2022

    Sunday, 14th August 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? “Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom.

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

    Sunday, 3rd June 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2018: How can we learn again, what it means to live in a rhythm of work and rest? In Canary Wharf.

  • A history of coronations

    Westminster Abbey has been Britain’s coronation church since 1066, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. King Charles III will be crowned on 6th May 2023.

    Royalty Coronations

  • 24th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 14th May 2009

    Delivered by The Reverend Professor Alister E. McGrath, Professor of Theology, Ministry & Education King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 14th May 2009.

  • Truth in the Public Square

    Lecture given by Claire Foster-Gilbert, Westminster Abbey Institute, at the 2015 conference of the Newbigin House of Studies Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 15th July 2015.

  • 13th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 7th May 1998

    Delivered by Canon Eric James FKC at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1998 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2020

    Tuesday, 3rd March 2020

    A Theology of Hope for the 21st Century, a lecture given by Professor Jürgen Moltmann, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, University of Tübingen

    Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

  • 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2016

    Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.

  • One People Oration 2011

    Thursday, 10th March 2011

    Speaker: His Excellency Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General

  • 26th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2011

    Delivered by Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 26th May 2011 and at Keble College, Oxford on Friday 27th May 2011.

  • One People Oration 2006

    Wednesday, 22nd February 2006

    Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)

  • 22nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 10th May 2007

    Delivered by The Reverend Dr Richard A. Burridge, Dean of King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2007 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • Students celebrate inspirational figures

    Tuesday, 15th June 2021

    From writers and musicians to scientists and engineers, Westminster Abbey has for centuries been the final resting place of some of the most distinguished figures in our history.

    Learning

  • Queens Consort at Westminster Abbey

    Ahead of the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort on 6 May, we’ll be sharing stories from each of the 38 Coronation services held here since 1066.

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