Westminster Abbey Podcasts

Speaker: Baroness Jowell Interlocutor and Chair: Baroness D'Souza, Lord Speaker It is neither superheroes nor automata but human beings who pace the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall, often feeling anything but powerful. Bound by party politics, the executive, the minister, public opinion, the media: sometimes these constraints are real, sometimes not. Who, or what, is running the country? How is power balanced around Parliament Square between the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive? What of the soft power of religion and the monarchy? In its autumn programme In Power? Westminster Abbey Institute will offer a series of lectures, dialogues and seminars to explore these pressing questions.

The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster, delivers the sermon on All Souls Day, 2nd November 2015

The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London, gives the sermon at a special service to commemorate the 600th anniversary of The Battle of Agincourt

The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Richard Chartres KCVO gives the address at a special service celebrating the lives of Armenian martyrs

Speaker: Sir David Normington Interlocutor and Chair: Professor Lord Hennessy It is neither superheroes nor automata but human beings who pace the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall, often feeling anything but powerful. Bound by party politics, the executive, the minister, public opinion, the media: sometimes these constraints are real, sometimes not. Who, or what, is running the country? How is power balanced around Parliament Square between the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive? What of the soft power of religion and the monarchy? In its autumn programme "In Power?" Westminster Abbey Institute offers a series of lectures, dialogues and seminars to explore these pressing questions.

Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster at the Sung Eucharist for the Dedication of Westminster Abbey on Sunday 18th October 2015

Sermon given by The Right Reverend Stephen Platten, Honorary Assistant Bishop, Diocese of London, at the Festival Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor - 17th October 2015

Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster at Sung Eucharist on 13th October 2015, The Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 1163, 1269

It is neither superheroes nor automata but human beings who pace the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall, often feeling anything but powerful. Bound by party politics, the executive, the minister, public opinion, the media: sometimes these constraints are real, sometimes not. Who, or what, is running the country? How is power balanced around Parliament Square between the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive? What of the soft power of religion and the monarchy? In its autumn programme In Power? Westminster Abbey Institute will offer a series of lectures, dialogues and seminars to explore these pressing questions.

The Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor The Lady Flight, attended a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of Blind Veterans UK at Westminster Abbey at Noon on Tuesday 6th October 2015. The address was given by the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall

The annual Judges Service took place at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 1st October 2015. The Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones, Master of the Temple, gave the address. Find out more about the Judges Service 2015:

The Venerable (Air Vice-Marshal) Jonathan Chaffey QHC RAF Chaplain-in-Chief, Royal Air Force, gives the sermon at a service of thanksgiving and rededication to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain

Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster

"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you." @deanwestminster The Very Reverend Dr John Hall preaches at Sung Eucharist on The Day of Pentecost, Sunday 2015.

Confession is big business. As family relationships are laid bare for daytime TV audiences and mock courtrooms try real cases for entertainment, calls for repentance echo everywhere. Those who hold power; religious, political, legal and cultural; are held to account by a free media and unregulated internet. In these contexts, what can the Church say about the Christian requirement for mercy as a public value? Is the quest for purity as damaging as it is noble? Do our public conversations confuse sincerity with truth? And is there any such thing as innocence?  Speaker: The Reverend Lucy Winkett, Rector, St James's Piccadilly Lucy Winkett was ordained in 1995, having worked previously as a professional soprano. With degrees from Cambridge and Birmingham Universities, she served her title in Manor Park, Newham before moving to St Paul's Cathedral where she later became Canon Precentor, the first woman priest to be appointed there. She became Rector of St James's Church Piccadilly in 2010. She is a long-sta

The sermon, preached by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Williams of Oystermouth, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury, at The Ordination and Consecration of Bishops at Westminster Abbey - 14th May 2015

The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr John Hall delivers the sermon at Sung Eucharist on Ascension Day, 14th May 2015

The Address given by Professor Michael Wheeler, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lancaster, Roehampton and Southampton at the 50th Annual Service to Commemorate the Life of Florence Nightingale.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby delivers the Address at the Service of Thanksgiving Marking the 70th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, 2015. #VEDay70

The Dean of Westminster Abbey, The Very Reverend John Hall, delivers the address at A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the ANZAC Landings on Saturday 25th April 2015