Conference on Sexual Ethics co-sponsored with Jubilee Centre:
Date: Saturday 15 May 2010, with optional supper on Friday 14 May
Location: Cambridge: Eden Baptist Church/Tyndale House
Speakers include:Further details here. Flier and booking form here.
Parliamentary launch
The Director’s recent publication, Talking God: The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning (London: Theos, 2009), was officially launched at a breakfast seminar for MPs and Peers from all political parties on 23 June in the House of Commons. The Director introduced the report and a lively discussion followed. The event was organised by Theos and hosted by John Battle MP.
Talking God is available on the Theos website:
www.theosthinktank.co.uk
A recent issue of Ethics in Brief is a summary of Talking God.
24 April 2009, Tyndale House, Cambridge - Programme
65 people attended a day conference on mission and contemporary culture co-sponsored with the Gospel and Our Culture Network
Speakers:
Dr Dominic Erdozain (King’s College, London) on the growth of secularity in modern British culture click here for text of lecture
Prof John Stackhouse (Regent College, Vancouver) on public engagement in a secularised culture click here for audio of lecture (under repair)
Rev J Andrew Kirk (formerly University of Birmingham) on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age click here for text of lecture
Dr Elaine Storkey (TEAR Fund) on responding to the secularist worldview.
Lunchtime Seminars on Political Ethics
Wednesday 8 October 2008 12.30pm-2.00pm
What is Economic Justice? (Paternoster 2007), with author Rev. Dr. Andrew Hartropp (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies)
Wednesday 19 November 2008 12.20pm-2.00pm
What is Economic Justice? with author Rev. Dr. Andrew Hartropp
Wednesday 3 December 2008 12.30pm-2.00pm
What is Economic Justice? with author Rev. Dr. Andrew Hartropp
Lunchtime Seminars meet occasionally as announced. For further information contact:
Jonathan Chaplin
01223 566625 or
klice@tyndale.cam.ac.uk
Speakers:
30 people participated in the event. The papers appear in a special issue of European Journal of Theology, November 2009, for which Dr. Simon Woodman (South Wales Baptist College) also wrote a precis of the book.
2007 KLICE Book Colloquium
A one-day colloquium on Oliver O'Donovan's book, The Ways of Judgment (Eerdmans, 2005)
Date: 3-4 July 2007 - Programme
Location: Newnham College, Cambridge
Speakers:
25 people attended the event. The papers were published in a special issue of Political Theology in 2008 on the work of Oliver O'Donovan.
2007 Seminar on Public Theology
“Theological Visions and Public Languages” - Programme
An invited seminar for public policy practitioners and public theologians, discussion focusing on documents recently produced by each organisation (listed below). 35 people attended, representing 20 organisations.
Date: 18 April 2007
Location: Tyndale House
Participating organisations:
Centre for Faith and Society at the Von Hügel Institute (CFS): Louder Than Words, by Andrew Bradstock (then co-director of the Centre for Faith and Society)
Evangelical Alliance Public Affairs Department (EA): Faith and Nation
Jubilee Centre: Jubilee Manifesto
Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE): ‘Speaking from Faith in Democracy’ (Jonathan Chaplin’s KLICE inaugural lecture)
Theos: Doing God, by Nick Spencer
1. Director responds to Bp Tom Wright in Parliament
2. Joint conference on sexual ethics May 15: booking form
3. Director speaks at Lords Briefing on Equality Bill.
4. Latest Ethics in Brief on assisted suicide and political forgiveness
5. Autumn 2009 Newsletter
6. Guardian article on Equality Bill by Director
7. Guardian article on faith and democracy by Director