As a Christian and as a member of the Anglican Church, I am very grateful that I have leaders who address the contemporary issues of our society.
Link: Archbishops to address immigration during Cambridge visit.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu will address the political and human rights issues associated with immigration during their joint visit to Cambridge this week.
The Archbishops will begin their three-day visit on Wednesday with a visit to Oakington Immigration Detention Centre. There they will meet the multi-faith chaplaincy team, as well as detainees and staff, to highlight the political and human rights issues before giving a homily at a short service.
What a team to be doing this! I do not accept that the Archbishop was off track in his infamous Sahria lecture and interview. He was raising issues that deeply concern us as a multicultural nation, and doing so with boldness rarely seen by our political leaders.
Both will venture into deep issues besides immigration:
The Archbishop of Canterbury will deliver two lectures entitled ‘What Difference Does it Make? – The Gospel in Contemporary Culture’ and ‘Faith, Reason and Quality Assurance: Having Faith in Academic Life’. Dr Williams will later join with local clergy and diocesan staff at St George’s Church in Chesterton for a seminar on the subject of ‘New Churches for New Communities’.
The Archbishop of York, meanwhile, will deliver a lecture entitled ‘A Broken Society?’ at Great St Mary’s and will address the ‘Changing Chaplaincy’ conference at Anglia Ruskin University. Dr Sentamu will speak to students of the Cambridge Union, and will conduct several pastoral interviews with students at Pembroke College.
Dr Sentamu will also conduct a Q&A with school children and sixth formers, in addition to attending a ‘Policing in the Community’ meeting with researchers and practitioners at the Department of Criminology.
The events are part of A World To Believe In: Cambridge Consultations in Faith, Humanity and the Future. This present round of Events will explore the question "What is the relationship between Faith and society today?"
Maggi Dawn has blogged on it here: A World to Believe In and promises further posts.
It will be interesting to see if the theme of Sharia pops up. May they have wisdom to handle it and every other subject against the self appointed guardians of secularism who will be quick to give them air time.
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