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March 06, 2014 Gore Lecture 2014: The Faithfulness of God
Speaker: The Right Reverend Professor NT Wright, University of St Andrews Chair: Canon Professor Vernon White

The faithfulness of God is a controlling theme of Pauls’ writings. Divine faithfulness, both to covenant and to creation, raises questions of considerable contemporary urgency: the new challenge to unity, a vision of ecological stewardship, the quest for holiness, and the renewal of mission, particularly in relation to social and political moods and structures. In these areas Paul cuts across the lines of fashionable thinking now, as he did in his own day: this lecture will explore the key current debates, and expound a fresh way of reading Paul (as in the author’s recent book).

Read a transcript of this lecture on Westminster Abbey's website.
1 hr 8 min
March 06, 2014 The Dean of Westminster's Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Ash Wednesday 2014
We commit ourselves to living this Lent self-sacrificially, giving up ourselves to the service and love of God and spreading the gift and spirit of reconciliation.
13 min
March 03, 2014 Desmond Tutu's Address given at a Service to Celebrate the Life and Work of Nelson Mandela
His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales represented Her Majesty The Queen at a Service to Celebrate the Life and Work of Nelson Mandela, former President of the Republic of South Africa, at Westminster Abbey on Monday 3rd March 2014. The service was also attended by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable David Cameron MP, and the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe.
12 min
March 03, 2014 Tributes to Nelson Mandela read by the Deputy President of South Africa & Peter Hain MP
His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales represented Her Majesty The Queen at a Service to Celebrate the Life and Work of Nelson Mandela, former President of the Republic of South Africa, at Westminster Abbey on Monday 3rd March 2014. The service was also attended by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable David Cameron MP, and the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe.
7 min
January 07, 2014 SERMON GIVEN AT SUNG EUCHARIST ON THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD 2014
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
Can we come to see God, to know God? The question is as old as time. And it has seemed to tease people throughout history and throughout the world. Can we come to see God, to know God?
12 min
December 25, 2013 Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Christmas Day 2013
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
8 min
December 25, 2013 Sermon given at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2013
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
8 min
December 22, 2013 SERMON GIVEN AT A SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE TO MARK THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LOCKERBIE AIR DISASTER
The Right Honourable Alistair Carmichael MP, Secretary of State for Scotland and Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Deputy First Minister for Scotland attended a Service of Remembrance to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie Air Disaster at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 21st December.
11 min
December 02, 2013 C S Lewis Symposium: Panel discussion: What can 21st century apologetics learn from CS Lewis
Michael Ward chairing a panel discussing the strengths and weaknesses of Lewis's various endeavours and taking questions from the audience. On the panel are novelist Jeanette Sears, theologian Judith Wolfe, and apologists William Lane Craig, Peter S. Williams, and Michael Ramsden
1 hr 8 min
December 02, 2013 C S Lewis Symposium: Telling the Truth through Imaginative Fiction
Dr Malcolm Guite addresses the subject of Lewis’s Christian imagination. In works such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, and The Great Divorce, and in his poetry, Lewis presented a narrative, symbolic, and imaginatively resonant perspective on the life of faith. This lecture discusses the place of imagination in modern-day Christian communication.
1 hr

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