Lectures
To mark the millennium St. Michael’s continues to present lectures with prominent speakers addressing major ethical or moral issues of the day. They are of the highest calibre and attract audiences in the region of 150.
The evenings, which close at 10pm, include a short interval for a glass of wine or fruit juice followed by questions from the audience.
Tickets £10.00 (concessions £7.00) to include refreshments during the interval from: The Secretary, St Michael’s Church, 70 Sycamore Road, Amersham, Bucks HP6 5DR 01494 726680 (Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope)
Forthcoming lectures start at 8 p.m. on:
Tuesday 11 October 2011 – Sarah Thornton CBE QPM, Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, “Challenges of Policing in Thames Valley” Click here to download brochure and booking form
Wednesday 28 November 2012 – John Bell, the Iona Community. “10 Things They Never Told Me About Jesus”
Previous lecturers have been :
Dr Jack Dominion: Sex, Marriage and Relationships
Dr Peter Vardy: The Ethical Challenge of Genetic Testing and Engineering
Professor Keith Ward: In the Lion’s Den – The Impact on Christian Faith of Science and World Religions in the Third Millennium
Bishop Rowan Williams: Educating the Spirit – Has our Education System got it Wrong?
Wanda Nash: Stress and the Great Release
Bishop John Shelby Spong: Being a Christian in the third Millennium*
Affif Safieh: Peace in Palestine: From Breakthrough to Breakdown*
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake: The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence*
Jonathan Aitken: Prison Penitence and Prayer*
Bishop John Shelby Spong: God Beyond Theism*
Bishop John Shelby Spong: Christ Beyond Incarnation*
Russell Stannard: The Universe: Room for God*
Sir Mike Aaronson: Terror: The End of Humanitarianism*
Lord George Carey, Former Archbishop of Canterbury: Has Christian Mission Failed?*
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE: The Moral State We’re In: How we treat the most disadvantaged and what that says about our Society.*
Michael Mansfield QC: The Legal State We’re Not In.*
The Very Revd. Dr.Jeffrey John: Making the Bible Make Sense
Nick Hardwick: The Police are the Public and the Public are the Police.*
Revd. Dr. Steven Shakespeare: Dead Meat: “Human beings: careful stewards of the animal world or frightened and bullying butchers?” *
Revd. Lucy Winkett: “Suffer the children?”: What Is the Place of Faith in Education?*
Dr Karim Esmail “Islam and Islamic Mysticism”*
Daleep Mukarji: Act Justly: Power, Poverty & Politics*
Professor Brian Thorne: “The Challenge of the mystics to contemporary Christians”*
Rabbi Jonathan Romain: ‘Til Faith Us Do Part?*
Harvey Gilman:‘Communicating across divides – reflection on an authentic language of the Spirit’*
Dr. Sheila Cassidy: God Beyond Church*
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The Empire Talks Back*
Dr Jane Williams : ‘In the beginning was the conversation: God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.’*
* Denotes CD recordings of these lectures are available for purchase.