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• Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2021

  Sunday, 7th November 2021

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2021: ‘Why pray when you can worry?’ ‘Ah yes, why pray when you can worry?’ said my husband as I fretted. ‘Why pray.

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

  Sunday, 9th January 2022

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the festival of the Baptism of Christ, 2022: You are precious in my sight, and honoured, and I love you. I was fortunate to be.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Easter 2022

  Sunday, 1st May 2022

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2022: Love bade me welcome. Someone I knew was recovering from an operation. They were not an easy patient, being.

• 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 preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2023

  Sunday, 14th May 2023

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2023: ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’ ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’

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

  Sunday, 11th June 2023

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday after Trinity 2023: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ A former Canon of.

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

  Sunday, 20th August 2023

  Sermon preached at Evensong on the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 2023: Humanitarianism is fundamental to the Christian faith. Last Thursday their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of.

• 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 the Baptism of Christ 2024

  Sunday, 7th January 2024

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Baptism of Christ 2024: The Baptism of Jesus by John in the River Jordan is one of the most important stories in the New.

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

  Sunday, 20th July 2025

  What do we make of dreams?

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2017

  Sunday, 1st October 2017

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2017: The unfairness of God Religion doesn’t work, does it?  At least, that’s what popular opinion says.  Religion is just not.

• Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2017

  Sunday, 16th April 2017

  Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2017: In him was life Some years ago The Listener carried the script of a radio talk by an American woman.  She had pioneered new.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2016

  Sunday, 27th November 2016

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2016: The Bird of Paradise “Driving last year in the red wilderness of Australia’s Great Sandy Desert, again and again I.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2018 commemorating the life of Walter Raleigh (c 1554–1618)

  Sunday, 28th October 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2018 commemorating the life of Walter Raleigh (c 1554–1618): Do we see the hidden reality in the life of Sir Walter.

• 2nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 21st May 1987

  Delivered by The Rt Revd Simeon Nkoane CR, Assistant Bishop of Johannesburg at King's College London.

• 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

• Misericords

  The word misericord comes from the Latin misericordia, meaning pity or mercy. These hinged oak seats in the chapel tip up to form a ledge.

  Art

• 20th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 12th May 2005

  Delivered by The Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 12th May 2005 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• Sermon at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Lent 2019

  Sunday, 17th February 2019

  Sermon at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Lent 2019: Seeing in the dark The Feast of Candlemas, which the Church observed at the beginning of February, celebrates one of the most.

• Sermon given at Sung Eucharist with the Imposition of Ashes, 2020

  Wednesday, 26th February 2020

  There are some things that have to be said today, things I have said before, elsewhere, but not said here in the Abbey.

  Ash Wednesday