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December 2020
Revd Dr Malcolm Guite “Christ and the Poetic Imagination” (live lecture)
This will be live-streamed via Zoom, starting at 10am. There will be an opportunity to ask questions after the lecture, and we expect to finish about 11.30am. We are very excited to be welcoming Revd Dr Malcolm Guite who is well known as a poet and was due to come to us in March at the start of the first lock-down. We are making a small charge of £4 per computer / tablet etc. for this lecture and we have…
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February 2021
March 2021
Prof. Keith Elliott “What makes a book ‘holy scripture’?” (live lecture)
Professor Elliott will concentrate on the New Testament but will discuss why, for instance, the Gospel of Thomas or the so-called gnostic gospels (which Dan Smith relied on to claim that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene) are not ‘holy scripture’.
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Revd Ian Parkinson (Leadership Specialist, CPAS) “For the equipping of the saints: the gift of Christian leadership” (live lecture)
Effectiveness in leadership is not measured so much by what any leader achieves but rather by whom they raise up and equip for service. The development and empowering of others certainly seems to have been a top priority for Jesus and those who followed after him. With particular reference to his example, in this session we will unpack the NT leadership emphasis on growing others in discipleship and ministry, and explore what this might mean for us today.
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