St Wilfrid Lectures
The
annual St Wilfrid lectures, named in honour of Ripon Cathedral’s
founder, have been running since 2009. They are now well
established as a lively forum for public conversation and
theological reflection on the common social, moral and political
concerns of the day. The lectures also embody an ecumenical and
interdisciplinary dimension, providing a platform for the exchange
of ideas between theological and educational interests, as well as
between the church and other faiths, communities, and
organisations.
Previous lectures have ranged widely over questions of faith and
public life, with high profile speakers including the Most Revd and
Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, Lord Inderjit Singh, Ruth Gledhill,
Baroness Estelle Morris, Professor Terry Eagleton, and Professor
Mona Siddiqui.
In recent years we have witnessed
negative and positive images of our regional, national and
international communities: urban riots, the Olympics, business and
banking meltdown, the Golden Jubilee, sexual predators, the Arab
Spring, and European uncertainties. Our politicians have
foregrounded the notion of community in terms like The Big Society,
Community Cohesion, so clearly ‘community’ is high on the agenda.
How then are we to understand the place of community and to respond
to ideas of neighbourliness, of looking out for and needing to
understand the other?
The 2013 St Wilfrid Lectures bring
together an exciting range of speakers who will challenge us to
think about the issues of community cohesion, multi-culturalism,
inter-religious dialogue, school communities, lessons learnt from
living ‘in community’, the European experiment and the voluntary
sector. Come and join us in these debates.
Download the St
Wilfrid Lectures 2013 series programme leaflet »
13 June –
John Denham MP (profile)
Is
One Nation possible, or desirable, in the 21st
century?
Ripon Cathedral, 7.00pm
19
September – Professor Tahir Abbas (profile)
Getting to Know Your
Muslim Neighbour: Between Race, Class, Ethnicity and
Culture
Ripon Cathedral, 7.00pm
10
October – Rt Revd John Pritchard (profile)
Schools as Communities of Grace
Ripon Cathedral, 7.00pm
7
November – Professor Ted Cantle (profile)
Making neighbours of the people of the world: from
Multiculturalism to Interculturalism
Ripon Cathedral, 7.00pm
Past events
28 February - Dr Kathy
Galloway (profile)
Grace to Share our Bread:
Expressions of 21st Century Community
Ripon Cathedral, 7.00pm
25
April – Professor Margaret Harris (profile)
Challenges of Building
Community in the 21st Century
Ripon Cathedral, 7.00pm
Booking information
The St Wilfrid lectures take place at Ripon Cathedral. The
Cathedral is accessible to disabled users. For further information
please visit the Ripon Cathedral
website.
Admission is free, but we do rely on donations in order to fund
the programme. If you are able to Gift Aid your donation it will
increase its value by 25%.
Tickets for the lectures are available from the Cathedral
Office:
St Wilfrid Lectures
Cathedral Office
Liberty Courthouse
Minster Road
Ripon HG4 1QS.
E: judithbustard@riponcathedral.org.uk
T: 01765 603462
The St Wilfrid Lectures are jointly organised and sponsored by
York St John University, Ripon Cathedral
the Methodist District of York and Hull and the Diocese of Ripon
and Leeds.
Further
information on the partners in this project »