All Saints Margaret Street.

Once every two months or so, we organise an online theology seminar by Zoom to discuss a particular idea, theme or text. We aim to make discussion as approachable as possible, and to give people the space they need to express their thoughts and questions.

Very often a speaker will introduce our discussion, or participants will have been expected to read a book, watch a film, or see a play in preparation.

Organising the event by Zoom means a wide range of people can participate even if they don’t live in London. These Zoom seminars always take place on Tuesday evenings at 7.00 pm and last for no more than an hour. The link to the Zoom meeting for each seminar can be found here.

The Book of Revelation
7pm, Tuesday 18th November, 2025

Professor Ian Boxall is Senior Fellow in New Testament and Professor of Biblical Studies at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St Louis, Missouri. He has taught previously at the Catholic University of America, and the University of Oxford, from which he received his Doctorate in the Book of Revelation. He has since published further on the topic, and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on this complex and enigmatic book of Scripture. Professor Boxall will introduce us to the history and interpretation of Revelation and its place in the canon. It would be especially useful to have re-read the text itself in preparation for the evening. A number of Professor Boxall’s books are available affordably.

The Theology of Sacred Space in Victorian Britain 7pm, Tuesday 25th November, 2025

The nineteenth century saw the transformation of the Parish Church in England, and a renewed interest in sacred space. One of the leading organisations at the intellectual and aesthetic heart of this movement was the Cambridge Camden, later Ecclesiological, Society, the ideals of which our own building here at Margaret Street perhaps represents the fullest expression. Professor William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History at St John’s College, Oxford, will lead us in a discussion of the theological elements of this transformation, and more broadly how theology and space interact and inform each other. His 2017 book Unlocking the Church: The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space is widely available.

Blaise Pascal: The Man who Made the Modern World
7pm, Tuesday, 27th January, 2026

Bishop Graham Tomlin, until 2022 Bishop of Kensington, is President of St Mellitus College, and leads the Church of England’s Centre for Cultural Witness. We are delighted that Dr Tomlin will join us to discuss his recent book Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World, which draws on his longstanding interest and extensive academic research in the field. The seventeenth century polymath’s misunderstood ‘wager’ is only one small aspect of an extraordinary life. Although he died at 39, Pascal’s work covered numerous disciplines, and his writing explores especially movingly topics of faith, reason and human existence.

Primate of All England: The Role of the Archbishop of Canterbury
7pm, Tuesday, 10th February, 2026

In the wake of the appointment of a new Archbishop after a lengthy process, we will have the opportunity to learn more about the peculiarities and changing nature of the role over the years. We are grateful that our own Dr Colin Podmore, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society who served in several senior roles in the Church of England, including as Clerk to the General Synod, will talk to us from his own extensive experience and study of the topic.

What has All Saints’ contributed to English Church Music?
7 pm, Tuesday 14th April 2026

As part of our ongoing Music Fundraising Campaign, we will be joined by Dr Serenhedd James to explore the musical patrimony of All Saints’, Margaret Street, and its impact on the wider Church of England.

St Catherine of Siena: Theology and Spirituality 7pm, Saturday, 23rd May, 2026

The Revd Dr Matt Jacobson, Associate Priest at our sister parish in New York, will offer us an insight into the theology and spirituality of Saint Catherine of Siena, 1347-1380. We will look at Catherine’s writings as well as the historical context of life in fourteenth-century Italy. The primary interest in studying Catherine of Siena will be to see how this mystic and Doctor of the Church can help us to reflect upon and develop a theological understanding of service. This session will draw on Fr Matt’s own research, and on the and on the experience of his leadership of a series of in-person classes on the subject in New York earlier in the month.

Theotokos: The Fathers on Mary
7pm, Tuesday, 16th June, 2026

We are grateful to the Revd Dr Robin Ward for leading us in the study of the development in the early Church of the understanding of Mary. Fr Robin has talked to us on patristics before, and will this time explore how closely bound up are the Church’s doctrines on Mary and Jesus Christ.