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Mar222025

Nicola Slee – “Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord’s Prayer” March 2025

RecordingBy James HandleyMarch 22, 2025

The Lord’s Prayer is a prayer text and practice that unites Christians worldwide and puts us in touch with Jesus and Christians throughout the ages. People of other faiths and…

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Jan182025
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Arun Arora – “Five Helps for the New Year: the Pastoral theology of Archbishop Michael Ramsey” January 2025

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 18, 2025

A link can be provided to Bishop Arun’s talk for those were at the lecture. He has requested we don’t make the talk publicly available. The following are the 5…

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Nov232024
The Didache Discoveries

Alan Garrow – “The Didache Discoveries” November 2024

RecordingBy James HandleyNovember 23, 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…

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Sep282024
David Moffitt

David Moffitt – “Looking through the Kaleidoscope” September 2024

RecordingBy James HandleySeptember 28, 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…

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Mar142024
Mark Oakley

Mark Oakley – “‘The curse of literalism’: poetic spirituality and the language of Christians” March 2024

RecordingBy James HandleyMarch 14, 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…

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Jan282024
Mark Vasey-Saunders

Mark Vasey-Saunders – “Why can’t the church talk about sexuality?” January 2024

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 28, 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…

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Nov262023
Esther Swaffield

Esther Swaffield – “Fixing Systems Not Just Symptoms” 25th November 2023

RecordingBy James HandleyNovember 26, 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…

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Oct92023

Paul Foster – “Meet the Apostolic Fathers: Christianity in the first half of the Second Century” – 7th October 2023

RecordingBy James HandleyOctober 9, 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…

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May132023

Rowan Williams – “Contemplative life and urban mission.” 13th May 2023

RecordingBy James HandleyMay 13, 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…

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Eve Poole – “Capitalism and Christianity”. 21st Jan 2023

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 21, 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…

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Roy Searle – “Wisdom from the past, illumine our path for today”. 20th November 2022

RecordingBy James HandleyNovember 20, 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…

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Lucas Mix – “How is Heaven related to Space?”, 24th September 2022

RecordingBy LindaSeptember 24, 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…

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Toby Howarth – “Working with Yorkshire’s Muslim Communities”. 29th January 2022

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 29, 2022

Christians working with Muslims (and vice versa) face particular joys and challenges, not least in our global and national context in which Muslims are often spoken of negatively in the…

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Mark Powley – “In Search of the Presence of God”, 20th November 2021

RecordingBy James HandleyNovember 20, 2021

What is the presence of God? How do we come to know it? Is it possible to make sense of our experience in a way that honours both God and…

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Stephen Cottrell – “Travelling Well”, 25th September 2021

RecordingBy James HandleySeptember 25, 2021

A Theological Reflection on the Place of Pilgrimage in the Christian Life

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Ian Parkinson – “For the equipping of the saints: the gift of Christian leadership”, 24th April 2021

RecordingBy James HandleyApril 24, 2021

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…

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Keith Elliott – “What makes a book ‘Holy Scripture’?”, 27th March 2021

RecordingBy James HandleyMarch 27, 2021

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 Brown relied on to claim…

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Malcolm Guite – “Christ and the Poetic Imagination”, 5th December 2020

RecordingBy James HandleyDecember 5, 2020

Malcolm Guite will explore the links and analogies between the working of the poetic imagination and the understanding of Christ as Word made Flesh. In particular, he will look at…

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Tim Gordon – “The changing song of the sea”, 14th November 2020

RecordingBy James HandleyNovember 14, 2020

Despair, faith and hope in an age of environmental destruction Dr Tim Gordon is a marine biologist whose work has taken him from the Arctic Ocean to the Great Barrier…

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Dec72019
Elaine Storkey

Elaine Storkey – “Gender and Justice”, 7th December 2019

RecordingBy James HandleyDecember 7, 2019

Dr Elaine Storkey is a philosopher, sociologist, and theologian, broadcaster and writer. Her presidency of Tearfund spanned 17 years and influenced her book, ‘Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence…

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Nov232019
Jeremy Duff

Jeremy Duff – “Today is the day – for everyone!” November 2019

RecordingBy James HandleyNovember 23, 2019

Growing Church in Luke and Acts In Jesus’ lifetime, people met him face to face, and he gathered around him a community of Jewish men and women who thought he…

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Tom Wright “Space, time and history”

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 12, 2019

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The Revd Professor Charlotte Methuen: The Reformation and Brexit

RecordingBy James HandleyNovember 17, 2018

 

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Gavin D’Costa Christian-Jewish relations

RecordingBy James HandleySeptember 15, 2018

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Alan Garrow ‘What did Jesus really say?’ part 1

RecordingBy James HandleyMarch 20, 2018

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Jan292018

Bishop John Pritchard Lecture

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 29, 2018

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Jan62018

David Runcorn : The Road to Growth less travelled – part2

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 6, 2018

 

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Jan62018

David Runcorn : The Road to Growth less travelled – part 1 (starts a few minutes in)

RecordingBy James HandleyJanuary 6, 2018

 

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Dec142017

Dr Casey Strine : Migration and Exile then and now (Lecture)

RecordingBy James HandleyDecember 14, 2017

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Jul282017

Revd Dr Derek Tidball: The crown and the cross: the relationship between the kingdom of God and the cross of Christ

RecordingBy James HandleyJuly 28, 2017
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Jul272017

Ann Morrisey: Mission and venturesome love: what does venturesome discipleship look like? Part 1

RecordingBy James HandleyJuly 27, 2017
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Dr David Instone-Brewer: Divorce and Remarriage in Bible times and today part 2

RecordingBy James HandleyJuly 25, 2017
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Dr David Instone-Brewer: Divorce and Remarriage in Bible times and today

RecordingBy James HandleyJuly 25, 2017
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News
  • Penny Pullen’s seminar notesApril 21, 2025
  • Gospel of John – 2024/25September 13, 2024
  • Welcome to the 24/25 ProgrammeSeptember 3, 2024
  • Note – building works at St Marks, Sept 2024September 2, 2024
  • 2024/25 ProgrammeApril 5, 2024
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Recordings of previous lectures
  • Nicola Slee – “Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord’s Prayer” March 2025
  • Arun Arora – “Five Helps for the New Year: the Pastoral theology of Archbishop Michael Ramsey” January 2025
  • Alan Garrow – “The Didache Discoveries” November 2024
  • David Moffitt – “Looking through the Kaleidoscope” September 2024
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