New Life in Christ: Anglican Approaches to Confession

November 6 & 7, 2025

A successful conference

This year's annual Anglo-Catholic Conference welcomed speakers and guests to The Advent and Grafton House's own "House of Piety and Learning," conferring on the topic of New Life in Christ: Anglican Approaches to Confession. We were delighted to have in attendance The Revd Dr George Westhaver, principal of Pusey House, Oxford who preached for our congregation on Remembrance Sunday.

Featured Speakers

Sr Maria Theotokos Adams SSVM
Catholic University of America

Presentation title: ’While we were yet sinners’: finding the drama of salvation in our own lives

Fr Peter Anthony
Vicar of All Saints Margaret Street, London

Presentation title: All may, none must, some should: some practical and parochial reflections on reviving use of the sacrament of reconciliation

Fr Philip Corbett
Vicar of St. Silas Kentish Town, London

Presentation title: Confession, converts and convents: the sacrament of penance and the Oxford Movement

Dr. Ryan Danker
Director of the John Wesley Institute

Presentation title: ’Watching over one another in love’: confession and accountability in the eighteenth century Evangelical Revival

Father Ian
Fr Ian McCormack
Church of the Advent

Presentation title: ’As if the grave closed over it’: Anglican perspectives on the Seal of the Confessional

Dr Neil Robertson
University of King’s College, Halifax

Presentation title: Confession and the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer

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