Dear Friend of KLICE,

Greetings! We're pleased to bring you our latest KLICE News Update for December.

Announcements...

• The latest issues of Ethics in Brief are now available. KLICE Research Associate Christopher Orton (Ph.D cand., University of Edinburgh) offers a theological assessment of the political party UKIP, and David John Sandifer (Ph.D cand., University of Cambridge) presents a critique of the recently popular notion of 'conditional forgiveness'.
  
• A Colloquium on 'Biblical Law' will take place on 19-20 March 2012 at the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge. The event is co-sponsored by KLICE and the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme. It is based around a new book by Jonathan Burnside entitled God, Justice and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011). More information here.
  

News...

• Jonathan Chaplin responds to prominent atheist Julian Baggini in Guardian CiF Belief.
  
• Colin Bell, researcher for the KLICE/Faraday Institute 'Hope for Creation' project, writes on 'Faith and Sustainability' for KLICE Comment.
• Jonathan Chaplin presented a paper entitled 'Governing Diversity: Public Judgment and Religious Plurality' at a seminar of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), University of Edinburgh, 14 November. The paper engaged with an article written by Professor Oliver O'Donovan (Edinburgh) entitled 'Reflections on Pluralism'. Professor O'Donovan gave a response.
  
• For a compilation of press coverage of the Sustainability in Crisis conference please click here.
  
• KLICE was represented at a conference entitled 'Beyond Individualism' organised by the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM), held in London on 24-25 November. More information here.
  
• Jonathan Chaplin gave a talk on 'Christian Responses to Multiculturalism' at Cambridge Muslim College on 28 November. His recent Theos report, Multiculturalism: A Christian Retrieval, was also featured in a programme of multiculturalism on the widely-viewed Islam Channel on 14 November. Elizabeth Hunter, director of Theos, participated in the programme.
  

Also recommended...

• Latimer Minster (UK) and the C.S. Lewis Institute (USA) are offering a highly recommended one year, part-time London Fellows Programme on discipleship and spirituality, designed for those in full-time employment.