Tough Questions on the Menu - Trinity Lectures 2009.

What Place Does Faith Have in a Plural Society? - Michael-Nazir Ali, Bishop of Rochester.

 

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The bishop will consider the nature of the spiritual in its personal and social dimensions, the accountability at the bar of world opinion of the dialogue between Christianity and Islam, and the Christian faith in its multi cultural contexts.

 

The Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali is particularly well placed to address these issues coming as he does from both a Christian and Muslim family background in Pakistan. His special insights have served him well in the House of Lords, as well as in his contributions to national radio and television. Before being appointed the first non-white bishop in the Church of England in 1994, he was General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society for five years. He will be stepping down from his current post this autumn to work with persecuted churches.

Changing the World. Charles Darwin: Public Scientist, Private Man.?

Alison Pearn, Assistant Director, the Darwin Correspondence Project.

 

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In his bicentenary year, Darwin is a more starkly contentious figure than ever. Who was the man behind the icon? How did he come to change our view of the place of humanity in the natural world? And does it matter whether we have an accurate  understanding of him as a person? An historian by training Dr Alison Pearn joined the Project in 1996, and has collaborated on seven of the sixteen volumes of Darwin’s letters so far published. She is also the co-editor of a volume of selected letters, and has just edited an illustrated book about the Darwin collections in the University, which complements an exhibition on the Beagle

voyage at Cambridge University Library of  which she is curator. For more information on the project see  www.darwinproject.ac.uk..

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Is Christianity the Only True Religion? - Keith Ward, Fellow of the British Academy

 

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In a world of many faiths and ideologies, is it reasonable to claim exclusive truth for a particular Christian view? How should Christians regard other religions? Are there limits to tolerance? Are we doomed to an inevitable conflict of religions? On his second visit to Trinity we know Professor Ward will be challenging and entertaining but will he have any answers? Keith Ward, recently retired, was Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion at Kings College, London, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. His recent books, on sale at the book-stall, are ‘Why There Almost Certainly Is a God’, ‘Is Religion Dangerous?’ and ‘The God Conclusion: God and the Western Philosophical Tradition’.

What’s the Point? Getting the message across in a communication revolution.

Rob Marshall, Communications Consultant.

 

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Are you struggling to keep afloat in the aftermath of the explosion in communication technology these last decades? Are new developments a worry or an exciting challenge? How can we learn to use them to our advantage and pleasure? The Reverend Rob Marshall is an Anglican priest with a wide experience in communication know-how, having been Communications Officer in the Diocese of Bradford and London and Media Advisor to the Archbishop of York. He is a writer and broadcaster, writing for the Church Times and speaking on Thought for the Day on Radio 4 and Pause for Thought on Radio 2. He now directs his own company, Media 33. Once a freelance football commentator for the BBC he now enjoys travel, especially leading pilgrimages .