St Wilfrid Lectures
Ripon Cathedral lectures to continue
in memory of late Dean
Ripon Cathedral has announced that this year’s St Wilfrid
Lectures will continue in memory of the late Dean Keith Jukes, who
died suddenly last month and who’s funeral service took place last
Friday May 31st.
The Lectures now in their fifth year were begun by Dean Jukes as
a joint project between Ripon Cathedral, York St John University,
the Methodist Church and the Diocese of Ripon & Leeds. A
spokesperson for the Cathedral said, “The Lectures were begun by
Dean Keith and have always been on topics and issues which he felt
passionate about. We feel that it would be in keeping with his
wishes to continue this year’s series in his honour.”
The next St Wilfrid Lecture will be given Thursday June 13th at
7pm by John Denham, the Labour MP for and former secretary of State
for Communities and Local Government. The lecture, which is free to
all, will be titled ‘Is One Nation possible, or desirable, in the
21st century?’
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 »