The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics

• New book with seven contributions from KLICE-linked writers, including Jonathan Chaplin and Joshua Hordern: 'Living Witness: Explorations in missional ethics'. Andy Draycott and Jonathan Rowe(Editors), Guido de Graaff, Sean Doherty, and Joshua Hordern are all former KLICE award recipients now in full-time academic posts. Brian Brock sits on the KLICE Advisory Council.

• One of the top judges in the family court division, Sir Paul Coleridge, on The Today programme launching a campaign to promote marriage.

• Jonathan Chaplin on 'The problem with Julian Baggini's secular state'.

• KLICE bids farewell to Will Kynes, KLICE Research Associate for the last year. Will completed his PhD at the Cambridge Divinity Faculty last year and was the appointed Liddon Research Fellows and Tutor of Theology at Keble College, Oxford. He continued his research role for KLICE until the recent colloquium on Biblical Law held at the Cambridge Divinity Faculty and co-sponsored by Cambridge Interfaith Programme. Will helped organise the event and wrote a fine précis of the colloquium book, God, Justice and Society, set to appear in a special issue of the journal Political Theology. We are very grateful to Will for his good work for us and wish him well in the next stage of his career.

• In 2012 three summer schools will be held: for nurses (June 8-9), for healthcare workers such as doctors (August 29-30), and for lawyers and others involved in legal work (September 15-16). Click here for more information.

• 'Unmasking Secularisation.' A workshop that about the dramatic cultural changes that have been taking hold of society. 26 March, 2012, Tyndale House, Cambridge. A 'Theology for All' event.

• "Patriotism?", conference exploring how national loyalty, identity and cohesion may be understood in a religiously plural and culturally differentiated 'nation'. 19 May 2012, The University of Manchester.

• We are pleased to announce that Dr. Joshua Hordern, Associate Director of KLICE, has been appointed to a University Lectureship in Christian Ethics at Oxford University, commencing October 2012. The position comes with a Tutorial Fellowship at Harris Manchester College. Joshua has served as Associate Director of KLICE since September 2011 and has made a significant contribution to the development of KLICE's Public Leadership Programme alongside his research and writing activities and his teaching for the Cambridge Divinity Faculty. We congratulate Joshua on his appointment, thank him for excellent work for KLICE and wish him well for his new position.

• Jonathan Chaplin writes on a setback for secularism.

• Places available for the Colloquium on ‘Biblical Law’ that will take place next month, 19-20 March in Cambridge.  More information can be found here.

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