Annual Congregational Lecture
Copies of previous annual lectures are available for Friends to download here
| Year | Lecturer(s) | Subject | |
| 2021 | John M Campbell | A creative inheritance? – applying a nonconformist gifting in biblical interpretation today | Download 2021 lecture |
| 2020 | Professor Jane Shaw | Nonconformists and the Modern Revival of Mysticism | Download 2020 lecture |
| 2019 | Anne James and Jean Shammi | Remembering the Dead: The Role of manuscript Sermons and Sermon Notes in Researching Early Modern Memorial Practice | Download 2019 lecture |
| 2018 | Dr David Cornick | Through Erik Routley’s Eyes: Theology, Ecumenism and Congregationalism in the 1950s and 1960s | Download 2018 lecture |
| 2017 | Rev Fleur Houston | The Handmaid’s Tale: Ministry, Gender and Power | Download 2017 lecture |
| 2016 | Prof Clyde Binfield | Platform and Pulpit in Peace and War, 1913-1920 | Download 2016 lecture |
| 2015 | Rev Dr Peter C Humphreys | Dublin Congregationalism: The Rise and Demise of a Dissenting Tradition | Download 2015 lecture |
| 2014 | Dr David Ceri Jones | George Whitefield and the Revival of Calvinism in Eighteenth Century Britain | Download 2014 lecture |
| 2013 | Dr Neil E Allison | ‘The Spirit of Cromwell’: Nonconformist Chaplains’ War Ministry and Experience (1914-1918) |
Download 2013 lecture |
| 2012 | Prof. John Coffey | Brethren or Sectaries? Richard Baxter on the Congregationalists | Download 2012 lecture |
| 2011 | Rev Dr Janet Wootton | Hymnody: A Sung Theology that Changed the World | Download 2011 lecture |
| 2010 | Prof. John Briggs | Two Congregational Denominations: Baptist and Paedobaptist | Download 2010 lecture |
| 2009 | Dr Stephen Orchard | Congregationalism and Catholicity | Download 2009 lecture |
| 2008 | Dr Elaine Kay | ‘A Way of Gospel Obedience’: The Church Meeting in Congregational Tradition and Practice | Download 2008 lecture |
| 2007 | Dr Robert Pope | Emerging Church: Congregation or Aberration | Download 2007 lecture |
| 2006 | Prof. Keith Robbins | Foreign Encounters: English Congregationalism, Germany and the United States c.1850-1914 | Download 2006 lecture |
| 2005 | Dr Chad B Van Dixhoorn | A Dat at the Westminster Assembly | Download 2005 lecture |
| 2004 | Prof M A Stewart | Independency of the Mind in Early Dissent | Download 2004 lecture |
| 2003 | Rev Kirsty Thorpe | Daughters of Dissent | Download 2003 lecture |
| 2002 | Rev Dr David M Thompson | The Decline of Congregationalism in the 20th Century | Download 2002 lecture |
| 2001 | Rev Dr Paul Blackham | Thomas Goodwin: Word and Spirit | Download 2001 lecture |
| 2000 | Rev Dr Jack McKelvey | Recovering the Book of Revelation | Download 2000 lecture |
| 1999 | Rev Dr Alan Argent | Isaac Watts: Poet, Thinker, Pastor | Download 1999 lecture |
| 1998 | Rev Dr David Hilborn | ‘The Words of our Lips’: Language-use in Free Church Worship | Download 1998 lecture |
| 1997 | Rev Dr Susan Durber | A Prodical Daughter’Posting’ the Bible: Post Structuralism and the Parables | Download 1997 lecture |
| 1996 | Dr Clyde Binfield | A Congregational Formation: An Edwardian Prime Minister’s Victorian Education | Download 1996 lecture |
| 1995 | Rev Barrie D Scopes | ‘Fire in the Belly’ : Motivation for Mission in the LMS/CWM over Two Centuries | Download 1995 lecture |
| 1994 | Rev Dr John Travell | ‘The Necessity of God’: The Message and Ministry of Leslie D. Weatherhead | Download 1994 lecture |
| 1993 | Rev Alan Tovey | Whatever Happened to the Separatists? A Commemoration of the Martyrdom of Barrow, Greenwood and Penry 1591 | Download 1993 lecture |
| 1992 | John Creasey | The Congregational Library | Download 1992 lecture |
| 1991 | Rev Dr Alan P F Sell | Rhetoric and Reality: Theological Reflections upon Congregationalism and its Heirs | Download 1991 lecture |
| 1990 | Rev Dr Peter C Jupp | From Dust to Ashes: The Replacement of Burial by Cremation in England 1840-1867 | Download 1990 lecture |
| 1989 | Rev Dr Janet Wootton | Dissent BC: The Old Testament’s Untold Story | Download 1989 lecture |
| 1988 | Rev Dr Colin Gunton | The Transcendent Lord: The Spirit and the Church in Calvinist and Cappadocian | Download 1988 lecture |
| 1987 | Rev Dr Tudur Jones | John Robinson (1576-1625): His Vision of Church Society | Download 1987 lecture |