Talks and Addresses

A Christmas Reflection on the Lord’s Prayer

This Christmas season as many people may be feeling alone, feeling the pressure of the busyness of preparations, missing loved ones or struggling to get into the spirit of Christmas as they face conflict at home and around the world. The Bishop of Oxford reflects on the Lord’s Prayer, looking at Christmas through the lens of the familiar words we have been taught by Jesus himself.

Make Christ known in our lives and through our words

May we all do our best to follow in the way of Christ, in gentleness and love, to be a more Christ-like Church in this time of great peril for our world, and to make Christ known in our lives and through our words.
A Let it Grow sign in a patch of tall grass

The fifth horseman

The Bishop of Oxford speaks on the need for the Church not just to conserve but to restore the natural world intentionally in the years ahead.
Bishop Steven addressing Area Deans and Lay Chairs. January 2023

Seven disciplines; eight qualities

As energy returns to our churches and the process of spiritual renewal continues, we must rebalance our common life towards seven disciplines of evangelism. But it is even more vital that we remain centred ourselves on the eight beautiful qualities; the Beatitudes, the best description there has ever been of what it means to be human and the most profound portrait of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Still of Bishop Steven's film

Wisdom from above

Following the publication of Together in Love and Faith, Bishop Steven offers a commentary and reflections on the next stage of the Living in Love and Faith process.
Three volumes of Psalms Through the Centuries hard back books displayed on a table tablecloth.

Psalms through the centuries

Bishop Steven's speech at the launch event of the Psalms history commentary by the Revd Canon Professor Sue Gillingham.

A message of thanks

The four bishops wrote to all licensed clergy, LLMs and church officers in the diocese to thank them for responding so well in the days following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Archbishop Justin stands on a stage infront of large audience, a large photo of an oil refinery is shown on a screen.

Science and Faith and the Lambeth Conference

Bishop Steven shares an overview of the key thread of Science and Faith at the Lambeth Conference held in Canterbury from 26th July to 7th August.

The earth is the Lord’s

Bishop Steven's address to Diocesan Synod in June 2022, calling on every household to respond to the climate crisis.