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  • Integrity

    What does it mean for a public servant to have integrity? Is it the same as being consistent?

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

    Sunday, 9th September 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: The Lord’s Prayer; how we should pray, and with what attitude and with what motives. Our second lesson this afternoon, from St.

  • 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 at Evensong on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2019

    Sunday, 30th June 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2019: “With what two crownes is this Citie adorned?”.

  • Address given at the Parliamentary Carol Service 2025

    Wednesday, 3rd December 2025

    What might people say of us?

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2025

    Sunday, 20th July 2025

    What do we make of dreams?

  • Sermon given at Evensong on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022

    Sunday, 9th January 2022

    Sermon given at Evensong on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022: What does the grace of baptism accomplish? Today we keep the feast of the Baptism of Christ. It’s somewhat ironic.

  • Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022

    Sunday, 3rd July 2022

    Sermon given at Civic Matins 2022: What are you supposed to be? That interests me this morning. Let me take you back nearly 500 years. In December 1540, the City of Westminster.

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

    Sunday, 12th May 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2019: Tell us plainly what we need to know! The people asked: ‘If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’ Jesus.

  • Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020

    Sunday, 1st March 2020

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent 2020: What is evil? How would we have knowledge of it? In recent years I have found myself increasingly subject.

  • Sermon preached at the Festival Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor 2024

    Saturday, 19th October 2024

    What should be the pilgrim’s imprint upon the earth?

  • Address given at a Service to mark the opening of the Legal Year in England and Wales

    Wednesday, 1st October 2025

    Wisdom is what our world needs more than anything.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong of the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 30th June 2024

    In the year 121 AD, the Emperor’s secretary completed what was to become a blockbuster.

  • 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 preached at Evensong on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2025

    Sunday, 24th August 2025

    What is your currency? Sermon preached on 2 Corinthians 9.

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

    Sunday, 14th August 2022

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2022: When God peers into my life, what does he see? Who am I and, for that matter, who are.

  • 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.

  • Easter Day

    Sunday, 20th April 2025

    The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster, reflects on the meaning of Easter, and how Jesus Christ's resurrection shows us what it means to be perfectly human.

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

    Sunday, 5th August 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: What is the fantasy business you would set up if you could give up your day-job and throw caution to.

  • Feast of the Epiphany: Gifts of the Magi

    Sunday, 4th January 2026

    The Reverend Dr James Hawkey explores the gifts the Magi brought to Jesus, and asks what we might lay at Christ's feet in this new year.

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