The Annual Robbins Lecture

The Robbins Lecture is an annual public lecture on the theme of faith and conflict supported by the Venerable Stephen Robbins CB QHC, former Chaplain-General of the British Army (2008-2011) and Archdeacon for the Army in the Church of England (2004-2011). Since 2023, the lecture has been organised by the International Centre for Moral Injury.

Previous lectures include:

2025
Revd Dr Aaron Fuller (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and United States Navy Reserve)
Church or chaplain? Nurturing faith in a time of conflict and moral injury
Video | Full text available here

2024
Assala Khettache (Aberystwyth University)
The weaponisation of collective moral injuries in Africa
Video

2023
Dr Rita Brock (Volunteers of America)
Unbinding souls: The use of ritual in moral injury
Video

2022
Lieutenant General Robin Brims (British Army, retired)
Faith under fire: A personal reflection on modern conflict

2021
Canon Prof. Michael Snape (Durham University)
Anglicans, Remembrance and the memorialisation of military service in the British Isles and the United States after the First World War

2019
Holly Hughson (Sarum College)
“I believe, help thou mine unbelief”: The witness of war and moral injury in modern conflict

2019
Revd Dr Brian Powers (Durham University)
Hope in the wound: Resurrection and moral injury

2018
Inaugural Robbins Lecture by the Venerable Stephen Robbins (British Army, retired)