Eric Symes Abbott Lecture – Canon Dr Paula Gooder

Dr Paula Gooder, Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, gives the annual Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture. The theme of her lecture is On storytelling and truth telling.

The Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures are given in memory of Dean Eric Symes Abbott (1906-1983), who was at various times Dean of King’s College London, Warden of Lincoln Theological College, Warden of Keble College Oxford, and Dean of Westminster.

The Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Fund was endowed after his death by his friends to provide for an annual lecture on spirituality and pastoral theology.