Alan Garrow – “The Didache Discoveries” November 2024
In 1873 Archbishop Philotheos Bryennios discovered the only surviving copy of a text called ‘The Didache’ or ‘The Teaching of the Lord, by the Twelve Apostles, to the Gentiles’. This…
David Moffitt – “Looking through the Kaleidoscope” September 2024
Looking through the Kaleidoscope: Hebrews’ Use of Old Testament Narratives in the Light of Jesus’ Ascension and Awaited Return Hebrews’ engagement with the Old Testament is among the most exciting…
Mark Oakley – “‘The curse of literalism’: poetic spirituality and the language of Christians” March 2024
Mark Oakley addresses the questions, ‘How should Christians use language? How should they express their belief and what language is needed for self-scrutiny? He will then argue that poetry is…
Mark Vasey-Saunders – “Why can’t the church talk about sexuality?” January 2024
A common conceptualisation of the current debate over sexuality is that it is one between traditionalists and revisionists. In this lecture, Mark Vasey-Saunders argues that this is based on a…
Esther Swaffield – “Fixing Systems Not Just Symptoms” 25th November 2023
Watch on YouTube As we seek to live out the call of Micah to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God, what does it look like to meet…
Paul Foster – “Meet the Apostolic Fathers: Christianity in the first half of the Second Century” – 7th October 2023
Watch the lecture on YouTube: During the first and second centuries a group of miscellaneous Christian leaders wrote down their understanding of the meaning of Jesus Christ’s life, death and…
Rowan Williams – “Contemplative life and urban mission.” 13th May 2023
We are delighted to welcome back the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who delighted us with back in 2014 with his lecture on the Gospel of John. This lecture…
Eve Poole – “Capitalism and Christianity”. 21st Jan 2023
We live and function in a capitalist society, but how often do we stop to examine and question the values and assumptions underlying this approach to economics, which has…
Roy Searle – “Wisdom from the past, illumine our path for today”. 20th November 2022
How St Benedict and Celtic spirituality is inspirational for these changing world times. It couldn’t be timelier as, in the words of Bob Dylan’s song, The Times They area Changin’, and…
Lucas Mix – “How is Heaven related to Space?”, 24th September 2022
Galileo famously quipped “The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven – not how heaven goes.” Jesus Ascension was not the same as…