 In 1895 and 1896, Henson was select preacher at Oxford, and from 1897 he served as chaplain to John Festing, Bishop of St Albans.He had time for writing; between 1897 and 1900 he published four books, ranging from purely theological studies to analyses of Church politics.His beliefs had changed from his early high-churchmanship to a broad-church latitudinarianism; his 1899 "Cui bono?"