University Sermons

Recent University Sermons

• The Rt Revd Martin Seeley, of Jesus College, former Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, sometime Principal of Westcott House (Select Preacher) University Sermon

• The Rt Revd Dr Paul Swarup, of Clare College, Bishop of Delhi, Church of North India (Ramsden Preacher), Scarlet Day Ramsden Sermon

• Professor Robin Osborne, Fellow of King's College, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History Hulsean Sermon

• The Rt Revd Dr Dagmar Winter, Bishop of Huntingdon and acting Bishop of Ely “A House of Prayer for All Peoples”

• The Revd Dr Valentin Dedji, of Hughes Hall, Minister, Edmonton Methodist Church (Lady Margaret's Preacher at Commemoration of Benefactors), 'Standing in the Gaps'

• The Revd Dr Kate Bruce, Chaplain, Royal Air Force 'Where is God when night falls?'

• Bishop Minerva Carcaño 'Ramsden Sermon'

• Professor Revd Canon James Walters, London School of Economics 'Is the world shaped by systems or stories?'

• The Rt Revd Dr Anderson Jeremiah, Area Bishop of Edmonton 'Epiphanic Imaginings of the Church'

• Canon Loretta Minghella OBE, Master of Clare College 'Commemoration of Benefactors'

• Dr Anna Abram, Co-President of the Cambridge Theological Foundation 'Restful and Restless heart'

• The Most Revd and Rt Hon. Justin Welby, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury 'Driven Out or Driven Under - the Choice of the Church'

• The Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, "Sent out to live the Gospel!"

• Professor Karen Kilby, Bede Professor of Catholic, University of Durham 'Mercy Justice and Truth: Picking a Path through a Polarised World' 

• Sarah Teather, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service UK 'The cry of Earth and the cry of the poor'

• Professor Anthony Reddie, 'Reclaiming the Ordinary’

• The Reverend Doctor Ayla Lepine, '"Life is a Complicated Business": Groaning Inwardly and Growing Up' 

• The Reverend Canon Mark Oakley, 'Daylight sanity and vigour: George Herbert, Poetry and Truth Decay'

• The Reverend Dr Jane Leach 'The Spirit that Crosses Borders' 

• The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle, MBE, formerly Fellow and Dean of Magdalene College, member of Corpus Christi College, Dean of Westminster and formerly Dean of Bristol (Lady Margaret’s Preacher)

• Professor Rachel Muers, formerly Fellow of Girton College, member of Clare College, 
  Chair of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, 'Making Evil Boring Again'

• Hulsean Preacher, The Revd Dr Nicholas Austin, SJ, Master of Campion Hall Oxford 'The Vices and Virtues of Hope'

• Ramsden Preacher: Baroness Berridge of Emmanuel College   'Exporting and Importing Treasure'

• Ms Chine McDonald of St Catharine's College, Director of THEOS: 'The Gospel of Liberation'​

• Lady Margaret's Preacher: The Revd Dr Helen Dawes of Trinity College, Principal of Westcott House 'Generosity, gift economy and moral hazard'

• The Revd Canon Michael Parker KHC, Chaplain-General to HM Land Forces​ Blessed are the Peacemakers for they will be called Children of God 

• The Revd Dr Harriet Harris​ MBE, Chaplain, University of Edinburgh 'Does Prayer Present Problems to be Solved'

• Ramsden Preacher: The Revd Dr James Gardom of Pembroke College, That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand (Mark 4:12): Misunderestimating World Christianity.

• Dr Anna Abram, Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Restful and Restless Heart