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APR-OCT 2010

 

Lent Lectures 2010 - Details of programme plus Lent and Easter services

Mondays in Lent 7.30 - 8.30pm

 

Matters of Death & Life

Sometimes death is at the very centre of our public discourse, as it has been over the question of assisted suicide and stem cell research. More commonly, however,  death is little discussed, even in churches. This series of Lent Lectures represents an opportunity to engage in ethical debates that have hit the headlines, at the same time as considering some of the pastoral, psychological and spiritual issues that arise in our personal encounter with matters of death and life.

 

Each lecture will last for a maximum of one hour. There will then be an opportunity to stay on for a short service of Night Prayer.   

 

February 22nd

Preparing for Death  RECORDING  SLIDES

Nigel Rawlinson

Nigel Rawlinson is an Anglican priest who works in a "workplace ministry" as a doctor, both in A&E at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and in Dorothy House Hospice. He is a member of All Saints Church, Weston, Bath.

 

March 1st

Assisted Suicide   RECORDING  SLIDES

Andrew Goddard

Andrew Goddard is Tutor in Ethics at Trinity College, Bristol. His is also editor of the Anglican theological journal Anvil and a member of the Church of England's Faith and Order Advisory Group. His publications include A Pocket Guide to Ethical Issues (Lion, 2006)

 

March 8th

Living with Loss

Linda Blair

Linda Blair is a secular clinical psychologist who has written columns in The Guardian and in Psychologies magazine. Alongside her work as a writer and broadcaster she maintains a practice as a cognitive therapist in Bath. Her books include Straight Talking (Piatkus, 2008)

 

March 15th

Loss and God

David Runcorn

David Runcorn is an Anglican priest who has worked at different times as a vicar, theological trainer and, most recently as Ministry Development Director in the Diocese of Lichfield. He now works 'free range' as a writer, spiritual director, retreat leader and conference speaker. His numerous publications in the field of spirituality include Rumours of Life:Transforming Wounded People (SPCK, 2006)

 

March 22nd

IVF & Stem Cells

Lee Rayfield

Lee Rayfield is an ordained scientist who has been Bishop of Swindon since June 2005.

He was a member of the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee from 2000-2009 and,

as a Bishop, has assisted the Church of England to reflect on its response to a range of challenging ethical issues. Dr Rayfield has over thirty publications in scientific journals

 

April 14th

The Wilberforce Lecture details

Speaker: Paul Moore - formerly Head of Global Risk at HBOS

 

Recent Lectures

 

“Fool’s Gold: the Tragedy and Madness behind the Credit Crunch"

GILLIAN TETT (Assistant Editor, The Financial Times & The British Press Awards’ Journalist of the Year 2009)

 

“How to Read Mark, 3: The Disciples”

THE REVD DR ALAN GARROW (Vicar Theologian, Bath Abbey)

 

“How to Read Mark, 2: The Christ”

THE REVD DR ALAN GARROW (Vicar Theologian, Bath Abbey)

 

“How to Read Mark, 1: The Kingdom”

THE REVD DR ALAN GARROW (Vicar Theologian, Bath Abbey

 

 “A ‘well-tuned heart’ in the modern church”

 DR BOYD SCHLENTHER (Formerly Reader in History, Aberystwyth University)

 

“Craftsman’s art and music’s measure” – Singing Victorians

DR BOYD SCHLENTHER (Formerly Reader in History, Aberystwyth University)

 

“Singing a new song” – The 18th Century flowering of the English Hymn

DR BOYD SCHLENTHER (Formerly Reader in History, Aberystwyth University)

 

“Teach me to live” – Congregational Singing in Britain from the Reformation to the end of the 17th Century

DR BOYD SCHLENTHER (Formerly Reader in History, Aberystwyth University)

 

“Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott” – The Birth of Congregational Hymn Singing during the Reformation

DR BOYD SCHLENTHER (Formerly Reader in History, Aberystwyth University)

 

“Marcionism”

THE REVD PREB EDWARD MASON (Rector, Bath Abbey)

 

“Adoptionism”

REVD DR ROB THOMAS (Curate, St Nicholas Bathampton)

“Arianism”

REV DR JEANETTE SEARS (Lecturer in Christian Doctrine, Trinity College Bristol)

 

“Docetism”

CANON DOUGLAS HOLT (Canon Theologian, Bristol Cathedral)