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Lent 2024		Life in Abundance
Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS
Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta GBE FRS FBA
The Revd Danon Robert Mackley
Dr Joshua Heath
A.N. Wilson
The Ven. Elizabeth Adekunle
Mr Luke Syson
Dr Dan Sperrin
Michaelmas 2023		Sayings of Jesus from Luke
The Dean of Chapel		But the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head
The Revd John Summers, Chaplain		Ye say that I am
The Revd Anne Strauss, Chaplain		Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb
The Revd John Summers, Chaplain		Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise
The Revd Anne Strauss, Chaplain		He was known of them in breaking of bread
Dr Joshua Heath, Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College		Mary has chosen the better part
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Easter 2023		Christian Voices from Prison
Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe		Perpetua's Prison Diary
James Penney		Frei Betto: From Hell to Hope
The Revd Dr Sam Wells		Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dr Dan Sperrin		The Consolation of Boethius
Professor David Ford		Theology Behind Locked Doors
The Dean of Chapel		Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail
Lent 2023		Reflections for my Student-Aged Self
Lt Gen. Sir Andrew Graham Bt
The Lord Bishop of London, Dame Sarah Mullally
Baroness Hale of Richmond
Brother Samuel SSF
Patrick Kidd
The Revd Dr Matt Russell
Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS
The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite
Michaelmas 2022		On some items in the Wren
Dr Nicolas Bell		The Bible in the Library
The Revd Anne Strauss		Winnie-the-Pooh
The Revd John Summers		A Fragment of the Virgin's Veil (?)
Catherine Arnold		Misunderstanding and Mystery
Joshua Heath		Christ Our Sister
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Easter 2022		The Future of ...
The Revd Professor Ben Quash		Christianity and the Future of the Church
Frances Crook		Christianity and the Future of Prisons
The Revd John Summers		Christianity and the Future of Politics
The Revd Anne Strauss		Christianity and the Future of the Planet
The Revd Canon Dr Chigor Chike		Christianity and the Future of Race
Professor Stephen Toope OC		The Future of  our Universities
The Dean of Chapel		Christianity and the Future of Money
Lent 2022		People of the Old Testament
The Dean of Chapel		Joseph
Professor Nathan McDonald		Bezalel and Oholiab
The Revd Anne Strauss		Shiprah and Puah: The Hebre Midwives
The Revd John Summers		Jacob the Wrestler
Professor Adrian Poole		David and Absalom
Professor David Fergusson FBA		Ruth
Professor Angela Leighton FBA		Lover and Beloved
Ali Smith FRSL		Job
Michaelmas 2021		Learning Christianity: Stories from the Book of Acts
The Dean of Chapel		Learning to Look Like God: Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
The Revd Anne Strauss		Learning to Live Like God: Life Among the Believers
The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite		Lancelot Andrewes, Pentecost & Translation
The Revd Dr Olga Fabrikant-Burke		'What Hath Athens to do with Jerusalem'
The Revd Jonathan Torrance		Because of this Hope
The Revd John Summers		Nasty Surprises: Snakes among the Sticks
Lent 2020		Parables of Jesus
The Dean of Chapel		The Sower
The Revd Dr Karin Voth Harman		The Prodigal Son
The Revd Dr Simon Taylor QC		The Rich Fool
Professor George van Kooten		The Hidden Treasure & The Pearl
Olga Fabrikant-Burke		The Talents
The Revd John Summers		The Wedding Feast
Professor Ian McFarland		The Wise and Foolish Virgins
Michaelmas 2019		What are we doing at Evensong?
The Dean of Chapel		Confessing
The Revd Dr Megan Daffern		Hearing the Psalms
The Revd Dr Paul Dominiak		Hearing the Scriptures
The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry		Singing the Canticles
Wesley Kerr OBE		Remembrance Sunday Address
The Dean of Chapel (replacing the Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)		Praying the Creed and The Lord's Prayer
Canon Professor Carol Harrison FBA		The Sermon
The Right Revd Tim Thornton		Singing a Hymn
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Easter 2019		The Good Society and ...
The Revd Canon Mark Poulson		Interfaith Relations
The Revd James Ridge		Prisons
Cressica Dick CBE QPM		Policing
Dr Hugh Hunt		The Environment
The Revd Dr Andrew Bowyer		Borders and Exiles
Professor Stephen Toope		Universities
The Dean of Chapel		The Church and the Good Society
Lent 2019		The Psalms
The Dean of Chapel		Psalm 130 – Out of the deep
Professor Richard Bauckham FBA		Psalm 145 – I will magnify thee
The Right Hon. Frank Field MP DL		Psalm 133 – Behold, how good
Professor Robert Gordon FBA		Psalm 86 – Bow down thine ear
The Revd Kirsty Ross		Psalm 22 – My God, my God
The Revd Canon Adrian Daffern		Psalm 23 – The Lord is my shepherd
Professor Adrian Poole		Psalm 137 – By the waters of Babylon
The Right Revd Robert Atwell		Psalm 49 – O hear ye this, all ye people
Michaelmas 2018		Saints
The Dean of Chapel		Perpetua
The Revd Canon Jonathan Boardman		Lawrence
The Revd Canon Victoria Johnson		Cecilia
Professor Brian Brock		A Stone-throwing Saint
Professor Nicholas Vincent FBA		Thomas Becket
Mr James Penney		Oscar Romero
Mr Philip McDonagh		Franz Jägerstätter
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Easter 2018		Easter Scenes
The Revd Canon Brian Mountford OBE		Piero della Francesca: The Resurrection
Professor Frances Spalding OBE		Hans Holbein the Younger: Noli me tangere
The Revd Canon Dr Alvyn Pettersen		Eric Gill: Ascension
The Revd Helen Orr		Pentecost - Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Dancer
The Revd Professor Ben Quash		The Trinity - Giovanni Bellini: The Blood of the Redeemer
The Very Revd Dr John Hall		Caravaggio: The Incredulity of Thomas
The Dean of Chapel		Caravaggio: The Seven Works of Mercy
Lent 2018		Faith in the Workplace
The Right Revd Dr Bradly Billings		Faith in the Workplace
Brigadier Ian Dobbie OBE		Faith in the Military
Alastair Land		Faith in Education
Dr James Lancelot		Faith in Music
The Right Hon. Lord Ian Blair		Faith in the Police
Professor John Lister		Faith in Academia
Pim Baxter OBE		Faith in the Arts
The Rt Revd & Rt Hon. Lord Chartres KCVO		Faith in the House of Lords
Michaelmas 2017		Remembering the Reformation
The Dean of Chapel		Martin Luther
The Revd Canon Dr Jessica Martin		Saints and Martyrs of the English Reformation
The Revd Professor Vernon White		Thomas Cranmer and The Book of Common Prayer
The Revd Dr Michael Volland		John Calvin
The Revd Robin Griffith Jones		The Catholic Reformation
The Revd Dana English		[Remembrance Sunday]
Monsignor Mark Langham		The Reformation and Christian Unity
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Easter 2017		The Church in the Modern World
The Revd George Lane		Global Travel, Leisure and Pilgrimage
Dr Pieter De Witte		Prisons
The Right Revd Dr John Inge		The Fate of Place
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres KCVO		Hope in Christ and the Empire of Things
The Revd Christopher Stoltz		Faith and Nation
Dr Susanna Snyder		Migration
The Dean of Chapel		Consumerism
Lent 2017		The Seven Sacraments
The Revd Professor Michael Reiss		Marriage
The Revd Anna Matthews		Holy Orders
The Revd Dr Anna Poulson		Eucharist
The Bishop of Ely		Confirmation
The Revd Ysmena Pentelow		Baptism
The Dean of Chapel		Anointing the Sick
A.N. Wilson		Confession
Michaelmas 2016		The Bible as Literature
Dr Ross Wilson		Is the Bible Literature
Professor Terry Eagleton		The Prophetic Literature
Professor Richard Bauckham FBA		Gospel Anecdotes
The Revd Professor Graham Ward		The Parables
Dr Katharine Dell		Job and Tragedy
Dr Kate McLoughlin		Remembrance Sunday: War, Literature, Love and Magnificence
Professor Adrian Poole		Remembrance Sunday: The War Poets
Dr Cathy Ross		The Epistles
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Easter 2016		God and Modern Thought
Dr Elizabeth Phillips		James Cone
Professor Ian McFarland		Karl Barth
The Revd Prof. David Fergusson FBA		Charles Darwin
The Revd Dr Andrew Bowyer		Hannah Arendt
Dr Daniel Weiss		Martin Buber
Dr Michael Ward		C.S. Lewis
The Dean of Chapel		Friedrich Nietzsche
Lent 2016		Scenes from the Old Testament
The Right Revd Libby Lane		Esther and Ahasuerus - Victors: The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus
The Revd Prof. Christopher Rowland		Daniel in Babylon - Rembrandt: Belshazzar's Feast
Dr Nathan McDonald		Noah and the Flood - illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle
Dr Alison Gray		Samson and Delilah - Rubens: Samson and Delilah
The Revd Prof. William Horbury		Balaam and the Angel - painting from the Via Latina catacomb
The Right Revd Roger Morris		Gomer and Hosea - Cody F. Miller: Gomer and Hosea
The Dean of Chapel		David and Bathsheba - Rembrandt: Bathsheba at her bath
The Very Revd Frances Ward		Susanna and the Elders - stained glass window at St Edmundsbury Cathedral
Michaelmas 2015		Saints Old and New
The Dean of Chapel		Joseph
The Very Revd Mark Bonney		Charles de Foucauld
Henrietta Leyser		Hilda of Whitby
Professor Linda Woodhead		Simone Weil
Dr Peter Sarris		John Chrysostom
The Venerable Peter Townley		Hugh of Lincoln
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Easter 2015		Christianity and ...
Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms FBA		Crime
Dr Susannah Ticciati		Feminism
Dr Robert Asher		Evolution
Professor Michael Rosen		Human dignity
Dr Hilary Marlow		Global Warming
Professor Simon Ditchfield		Other cultures
The Dean of Chapel		Old age
Lent 2015		Following Christ from Epiphany to Lent
The Revd Canon Dr John Binns		Epiphany - Byzantine icon of the Epiphany
The Revd Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes		Circumcision and Naming - Fra Angelico: Circumcision
The Dean of Chapel		Massacre of the Innocents - Pieter Brueghel: The Massacre of the Innocents
The Revd Dr Steve Griffiths		Flight to Egypt - Merson: Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Dr Jane McLarty		Teaching in the Temple - Holman Hunt: The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
The Revd Canon Ralph Godsall		Baptism - Eastern Orthodox icon of the Baptism of Jesus
The Revd Canon Dr Nicholas Sagovsky		Into the Wilderness - Kazimir Malevich: Black Square & Head of a Peasant
Father Kevin Grove		Calling Disciples - Caravaggio: The Calling of St Matthew
Michaelmas 2014		A (Very Brief) History of Christianity in Britain in 7 Objects
The Dean of Chapel		The Coming of Christianity: The Bewcastle Cross
Professor Henry Mayr-Harting		The Age of Becket: The Raising of Lazarus, two 12th century scuplture reliefs in Chichester Cathedral
Professor Alexandra Walsham		The Reformation and its Afterlife: 15th century painted rood screen, St Michael and All Angels, Barton Turf, Norfolk
The Right Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell		The Anglo-Catholic Movement: John Keble's Spectacles
Professor Frances Spalding		The First World War: Stanley Spencer's The Resurrection of the Soldiers
The Revd Dr Charles Elliott		The Sixties: A strip of Kente Cloth from Ghana
The Right Revd James Jones		Christianity Today: The Crown
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Easter 2014		From (before the) cradle to (after the) grave: a Christian life course
The Dean of Chapel		Conceiving
The Dean of Chapel		Raising and Nurturing
Dr Ashley Cocksworth		Loving
The Revd William Morris		Working
The Right Revd Peter Wheatley		Suffering
Baroness Onora O'Neill CH CBE FBA		Ageing
The Dean of Chapel		Mourning
Lent 2014		People of the New Testament
The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris		Joseph
The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan		John the Baptist
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Richard Chartres KCVO		Mary
Monsignor Mark Langham		Peter
The Revd Paul Dominiak		Judas
The Revd Marjorie Brown		Mary Magdalene
The Revd Christopher Stoltz		Pilate
Anne Atkins		Paul
Michaelmas 2013		Some Modern Saints?
Professor Adrian Poole		Simone Weil
Professor Werner Jeanrond		Anton Schmid
The Rt Hon. Frank Field		Clement Attlee
Dr David Washbrook		Mahatma Gandhi
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Professor David Ford		Jean Vanier
The Rt Hon. Lord Ian Blair		The Unknown Saints
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Easter 2013		Picturing Easter
Dr Frank Salmon		The Resurrection – Michelangelo: The Risen Christ
The Rt Hon. Ann Widdecombe		Doubt – Conegliano: The Incredulity of St Thomas
Professor Francis Watson		Supper at Emmaus – Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus
The Rt Revd John Pritchard		Whitsun – El Greco: Pentecost
Father Alban McCoy		Trinity – Rublev: The Trinity
The Most Revd and Rt Hon. Justin Welby
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		The Life of the Church – Van Gogh: The Sower
Lent 2013		The Seven Deadly Sins
The Revd Richard Lloyd-Morgan		Pride
The Revd Canon Jane Hedges		Envy
The Right Revd Graeme Knowles		Wrath
The Revd Philip North		Sloth
Professor Catherine Barnard		Greed
Dr Anna Williams		Gluttony
The Revd Anna Matthews		Lust
Michaelmas 2012		God and Israel
The Revd Professor William Horbury		The Founding of Israel: Jacob
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Israel in Egypt: Joseph
Dr Katharine Dell		Israel and the Promised Land
Professor Richard Bauckham FBA		King David
The Revd Dr Andrew Macintosh		The Pre-Exilic Prophets
The Right Revd Stephen Conway		Israel in Exile
The Revd Dr Jessica Martin		The Return
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Easter 2012		Good books
Professor Albert Weale FBA		John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
Sister Margaret Atkins		Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems
The Revd Canon Edmund Newall		Iain McGilchrist: The Master and his Emissary
Dr James Carleton Paget		Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
The Rt Revd Cuthbert Madden OSB		Whitsun
Professor Robert Gordon		Trinity
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Lord Carey		George Eliot: Middlemarch
Lent 2012		Scenes from the life of Christ
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Annunciation – Master of Flémalle: The Annunciation
The Rt Revd Martin Warner		Birth – Piero della Francesca: The Nativity
The Revd Professor Jolyon Mitchell		Epiphany – Hieronymus Bosch: The Adoration of the Magi
The Revd Dr Colin Thompson		Baptism – El Greco: The Baptism of Christ
Mr Eric Southworth		Teaching – Diego Velázquez: Christ in the house of Martha and Mary
The Revd Paul Dominiak		Ash Wednesday – 'Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also'
The Very Revd Michael Tavinor		Healing – Rutilio Manetti: The Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Suffering – El Greco: The Disrobing of Christ
The Revd Christopher Stoltz		Crucifixion – Lucas Cranach the Younger: The Crucifixion
Michaelmas 2011		Telling Tales: Stories from the Book of Genesis
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		'In the beginning...'
Professor Bernard Silverman FRS		Adam and Eve
The Revd Prof. Ernest Nicholson FBA		Cain and Abel
Professor Markus Bockmuehl		Noah
The Revd Dr Janet Tollington		Babel
The Revd Dr Anders Bergquist		Abraham
Professor Simon Goldhill		Joseph
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Easter 2011		Christianity and some issues of the day
The Most Revd & Rt Hon. Lord Eames OM		Peace and reconciliation
P.D. James (Baroness James of Holland Park)		The King James Bible
The Revd Dr James Walters		Poverty
Mr Jonathan Aitken		Prisons
The Very Revd Dr John Hall		Education
The Rt Hon. John Gummer, Lord Deben		The environment
The Rt Hon. Tony Benn		Socialism
Lent 2011		God and some theologians
The Revd Canon Dr Alvyn Pettersen		Athanasius of Alexandria
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Augustine of Hippo
Professor Janet Soskice		Thomas Aquinas
The Revd Christopher Stoltz		Martin Luther
Professor George Pattison		Søren Kierkegaard
Professor David Ford		Karl Barth
Dr Luke Bretherton		Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Revd William Morris		Commemoration of Benefactors
Michaelmas 2010		Can we believe in…?
Professor Simon Conway Morris		Creation
The Revd Alex Faludy		Incarnation
The Revd Angela Tilby		Prayer
The Revd Prebendary Dr Jonathan Trigg		Forgiveness of sins
The Rt Revd Dr Christopher Cocksworth		The Church
Father Peter Allan CR		Resurrection
The Revd Roger Greeves		Hell
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Easter 2010		Picturing the Christian life
Mr Graham Howes		Gauguin: Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
The Very Reverend Justin Welby		Rembrandt: The Return of the Prodigal Son
Dr Nicholas Adams		Carpaccio: The Preparation for the Entombment of Christ
Mr Martin Golding		Chardin: Still Life with a Bottle of Olives
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres		Whitsun
The Very Revd Dr Hugh P. Kennedy Adm.		Trinity
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Spencer: Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing-Station at Smol
Lent 2010		Virtues and vices
Professor Amartya Sen		Justice
The Revd Dr Brian Hebblethwaite		Forgiveness
Baroness Onora O’Neill FBA		Hope
The Rt Revd George Cassidy		Greed
The Revd Peter Kashouris		Faith
The Rt Hon Shirley Williams		Prudence
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Pride
Michaelmas 2009		God and some Fellows of Trinity
Dr Scott Mandelbrote		Isaac Newton
Professor Angela Leighton FBA		A.E. Housman
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Ludwig Wittgenstein
Professor Boyd Hilton FBA		F.D. Maurice
The Revd Dr Jessica Martin		George Herbert
Professor Martin Rudwick		Adam Sedgwick
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Easter 2009		Composers
Dr John Butt		Johann Sebastian Bach
The Revd Stephen Shipley		Benjamin Britten
Mr David Trendell		William Byrd
The Revd Robert Sweeney		Henry Purcell
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Spirituals
The Very Revd Robert MacCarthy		Whitsun
The Revd Professor Sarah Coakley		Trinity
Lent 2009		I am that I am: what we don’t know about God
The Revd Dr Jessica Martin		Speaking in time
The Revd Nick Moir		Hide and seek: a playful God?
The Rt Revd Robert Atwell		The darkness of God
The Rt Revd Robert Hardy		Puzzling reflections
Professor David Martin		False images and a true likeness
Dr Joel Cabrita		Knowing the unknown Zulu God: the Bishop and the convert
Professor John Bowker		Bread in the wilderness
The Ven. John Beer		What we don't know about God
Geoffrey Hill		Ash Wednesday: Christian repentance
Michaelmas 2008		God in the nineteenth century
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Goya
Professor Simon Conway Morris		Darwin
Dr Mark Berry		Wagner
Professor Angela Leighton		Tennyson
Professor Nicholas Lash		Newman
Professor Terry Eagleton		Nietzsche and Christ
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Easter 2008
The Rt Revd Lord Harries of Pentregarth		Hope
Dr Lance Stone		Feeling Christ as absent
Professor Linda Woodhead		Pentecost
Father Fergus Kerr		Trinity
Father Alban McCoy
Professor Robert Gordon
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Joseph of Arimathea
Lent 2008		Theological and moral questions posed by Shakespeare’s plays
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		A Midsummer Night’s Dream – love
Professor Brian Cummings		Hamlet – chance
The Revd Professor Ben Quash		King Lear – recognition
The Revd Dr Jessica Martin		Pericles – reconciliation
Dr Nicholas Adams		Macbeth – fate
The Revd Alice Goodman		Henry IV (parts 1 and 2) – fat men
Dr Eric Griffiths		Richard II – the word
Dominic Rowland		Corporate Evensong
Geoffrey Hill		Ash Wednesday
Michaelmas 2007		Some books of the Bible
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		Ecclesiastes
The Revd Alice Goodman (replacing Professor Daniel Hardy)		Psalms
The Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt		Jeremiah
The Revd Michael Goater		Ruth
The Rt Revd Ian Cundy		Luke
The Revd Dr John Binns		Revelation
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Easter 2007
Msgr Tony Rogers
Professor Nigel Biggar		'Wishful' thinking and the Resurrection
The Rt Revd Tom Wright
The Revd Dr Charles Elliott
Professor Ann Loades CBE
Professor David Ford
The Revd Dr Michael Banner
Lent 2007		Picturing the life of Christ
The Revd Dr Michael Banner		The Epiphany – Bruegel the Elder: The Adoration of the Kings
The Revd Dr Jessica Martin		The Circumcision – School of Bellini: The Circumcision
The Rt Revd Dr Peter Selby		The Baptism – Greek icon, Recklinghausen: The Baptism of Christ
The Revd Dr Ben Quash		The Calling of the Disciples – Caravaggio: The Calling of St Matthew
Mr Neil MacGregor		Christ’s teaching –  Bruegel the Elder: The Woman Taken in Adultery
The Revd Canon Professor David Brown		The Last Supper – Dali: The Sacrament of the Last Supper
The Rt Revd Professor Stephen Sykes		The Crucifixion – Tintoretto: The Crucifixion of Christ
The Revd Canon Andrew Greany		The Resurrection –  Spencer: The Resurrection, Cookham
Michaelmas 2006
The Rt Revd Anthony Russell
The Revd Dr Michael Banner
The Revd Canon Dr Jane Steen
The Revd Edward Dowler
The Revd Canon Fr Alvyn Pettersen		‘Becoming the saints we are’
The Revd Dr Tim Jenkins
The Revd Alice Goodman
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Memorial sermons
The Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP		Susanne Davidson, 14 May 2011
Sir John Bradfield		Denis Marrian, 16 February 2008
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres		Harry Williams, 13 May 2006
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