L'Abri Lecture Schedule Summer 2010
Friday Night @ The Manor House
Events take place at The Manor House: dessert is at 7:30; lectures begin at 8:00.
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May
21 ‘Should the People Get what the People Want? A Look at Politics in the 21st Century. Film and discussion of Adam Curtis’ Documentary Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering’
Jim Paul, L’Abri worker
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28 ‘Agony and Ecstasy: The Search for Sexual Sanity in a Confusing Culture’
Dr. Richard Winter, Psychologist
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29 EXTRA LECTURE (8 pm.) ‘The Transformation of English Culture under the Impact of the Revival of Christianity’
Dr. Herb Schlossberg, Historian
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June
4 ‘From Credit Crunch to Consuming Self - A Look at the Worldview of Consumerism’
Jim Paul, L’Abri Worker
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11 ‘What Is a Human Being? Theological and Philosophical Perspectives’
Stefan Lindholm, L’Abri Worker
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18 ‘Henry Moore - How Edgy is He Really? A Discussion of the Sculptor's Work in the Light of the Current Tate Exhibition’
Nigel Halliday, Art Historian
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25 ‘God’s Apologetic Questions’
Ellis Potter, Itinerant Apologist
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July
2 ‘Should Humans use Technology to Enhance our Bodies and Minds - Smarter, Stronger, with New Capacities, ...?’
Dr. Donald Bruce, Consultant in Ethics of Technology, Edinburgh
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9 ‘Hearing with New Ears: When the Bible Gets Boring’
Robert Heimburger, PhD Theology Student, Cambridge
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16 ‘Transformation through Sacrifice? The Music of James MacMillan’
Judy Raines, Church Musican in IPC, Liss
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23 ‘George MacDonald: the Fairy Tale Canon and the Art of Myth-Making’,
Olga Lukmanova, English Teacher, Russia
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30 ‘Is Facebook Good for Us?’
Danny Burbeck, L’Abri Worker
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August
6 ‘Why Goodness Matters - the Quality of Our Hope’ (Lecture 4 on the 10 Commandments)
Marsh Moyle, Missionary in Residence
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Events take place at The Manor House: dessert is at 7:30; lectures begin at 8:00
To help save postage, if you would be happy to receive this via email, please contact us at office@englishlabri.org
