Teach Us to Pray: A Close Reading of the Lord’s Prayer
In Lent 2023, Dr Hull presented a series of six talks entitled ‘Teach Us to Pray: A Close Reading of the Lord’s Prayer’.
The talks are a detailed reading of the ancient texts of the Lord’s Prayer. Given that pious Christians recite the Lord’s Prayer daily, if not thrice daily, and the Lord’s Prayer is given to us by the Lord Jesus himself at the direct request of his disciples (Matthew 6.9–13 and Luke 11.2–4; cf. Didache 8.2), it is worthwhile to read the Lord’s Prayer closely and deliberately to unpack the ways in which it glorifies God and petitions for humanity’s spiritual and physical needs.
Each of the talks is about 30 minutes and may be found here:
- Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
- Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven.
- Give us today day our daily bread.
- Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
- Do not bring us to the time of trial, but deliver us from evil.
- For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever.
Anglican Identity
In Advent 2022, Dr Hull offered a series of four talks around the question What does it mean to be an ‘Anglican’ Christian?
The talks are an overview of Anglican/Episcopal identity organised around the Chicago–Lambeth Quadrilateral to look at four staples Anglicans have classically identified as the bases of their doctrine and practice.
Each of the talks is about 30 minutes and may be found here:
- Holy Scripture: ‘all things necessary to salvation’ and the rule of faith. Download the handout.
- The Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds: symbols and statements of faith.
- The Dominical Sacraments: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
- The historic Episcopate: a universal and locally adopted means of unity.
Episcopalians and Their Ethics
In Lent 2022, Dr Hull offered a series of six talks entitled ‘Episcopalians and Their Ethics’.
The talks are an overview of Christian Ethics from an Episcopal/Anglican perspective with the aim to develop a well-informed understanding of Christian deliberation on behaviour and the ways in which Anglicanism informs and shapes the morality of individuals and communities.
Each of the talks is about 30 minutes and may be found here:
- What is Christian ethics?
- Why should I choose good over evil?
- How do I tell good from evil?
- What is conscience?
- Why follow conscience?
- Where do I go with Christian ethics?
Reading the Bible like an Episcopalian
In Advent 2021, Dr Hull offered a series of four talks entitled ‘Reading the Bible like an Episcopalian’.
Because we Episcopalians, like all Christians, read the Bible from our own perspective and within our own denomination, it is worth probing our own predilections. It is worth asking, in other words, what characterises an Episcopalian approach to the Bible over time, say, from the Reformation until today.
Each of the talks is about an hour and may be found here:
