Julie Clague is Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at Glasgow University and an academic associate of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing. She carries out research in Catholic moral theology and ecclesiology, Catholic social thought, and Christian approaches to public issues. Julie’s lecture will explore the impact and significance of the Papacy of Francis…

Dr Strine will explore what both the Old Testament and New Testament say about migration, developing the insight that a massive number of biblical texts are written by migrants to other migrants about migration. By recognising this feature, analysing what these texts say about migration, and thinking carefully about how this compares to contemporary experiences,…

We are in unfamiliar country. A faith urgently needs to seek new ways of being present to a culture adrift from any spiritual roots and unable to recognise its loss. We will be exploring, experimenting and in conflict for the foreseeable future. ‘We do not see what we shall become’ (1 John 3.2). This is…

Bishop John will be exploring what holds together the ‘big five’ of the Christian faith: incarnation, the cross, resurrection, ascension and Pentecost. What are they all really about and how can we grasp their significance intellectually and spiritually? Big issues made accessible.

It might seem quite straightforward – Jesus said what he is reported as saying in the Gospels. At one level this is true. At another, however, things may be rather more complicated. A significant complicating factor is that, for more than a century, most scholars have suspected the existence of an entity known as Q.…