Spring Term L'Abri Lecture Schedule
Below is the remaining schedule for English L'Abri's Spring Lecture series.
Greetings,
Our Spring term lecture series continues this Friday night, 6 February, with Nigel Halliday, art historian, speaking on “Ascension in Art: using images to explore a neglected area of our theology.”
We will explore the significance of Jesus’ ascension with the help of a range of paintings and sculptures and think about what may be missing.
We look forward to welcoming you from 7:30pm for tea and coffee with the lecture beginning at 8pm.
If you can’t be there in person, feel free to watch via Zoom.
The password is Lecture.
Also, you can catch up on lectures via the English L’Abri Podcast.
Warmly,
The team at English L’Abri
13 February - One Day I’ll see You Face to Face: Encountering the Stranger
Ingvild Hellenes, L’Abri worker
People are more important than things. And yet our lives are full of interactions with invisible strangers who make our things. Who are they? And how do we treat them? This lecture will focus on how we can dignify these strangers in the face of consumer culture, new technologies, fear, greed and the lure of convenience.
20 February - No lecture. Film Festival “The Inconvenient Other” on 21 February. More details here.
27 February - The Strongest Force in the World: The Spiritual Formation of Corrie ten Boom
Marta Crilly, Head of Public Services, Burns Library, Boston College
In 1944, fifty-two year old Dutch watchmaker Corrie ten Boom was arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering Jews. After surviving Ravensbruck and losing most of her family, she embarked on a three decade ministry, sharing a message of love, forgiveness, and hope. Who was Corrie ten Boom and how did she become the kind of person who builds secret rooms, undermines Nazis, survives a concentration camp, and then goes on to share the gospel with refugees, prisoners, and the Nazis who killed her family? Join us to discuss.
6 March - Love Your (Political) Enemies? Engaging with Political & Cultural Conflicts as Christians in an Age of Rage
Ian Barrs, friend of L’Abri
The longer the twenty-first century goes on, the more politically and culturally divided our societies seem. Can Christians engage as citizens in the debates and controversies that roil our societies with truth and with charity? In this lecture, we will step back from our positions on the issues and, instead, grapple with the question of how Christians engage with people who disagree with us — inside and outside the Church.
13 March - Utopian Dreams/Dystopian Nightmares - finding Christian hope for the future
Jim Paul, L’Abri worker
While some dream of a society where perfect justice is enacted or where technology allows us to live in pleasure and plenty, others foretell nightmares of climate catastrophe, cultural collapse or Artificial Intelligence making humans obsolete. Amidst these competing utopian/dystopian futures, what does it look like to have Christian hope?
20 March - What is Health & Wellness?
Joel Barricklow, L’Abri worker
How we understand health impacts how we identify and then seek to address the challenges we experience in our bodies. However, our current visions of health usually reduce it to one dimension of our person. Our hope is to examine the contemporary narratives around health & wellness with a view to building a Christian conception of health that integrates a fuller picture of our humanity (mind, body, spirit, relationships, etc) while also addressing the reality of living in a broken world.