God the Universe and Everything (The Bishop’s Lay Congress 2011)
last updated on: 26th Oct 2011
Saturday 26th November, 9.30am - 3.45pm at The Samworth Enterprise Academy, Trenant Road, Leicester, LE2 6TF
Are Science and Christianity compatible? Spend a day looking at how Christianity and Science relate to each other. With guest speakers from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, an academic research enterprise based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. The Faraday Institute are committed to engaging the public in the understanding of science and religion.
PROGRAMME
09.30—10.00 Arrival and registration
10.00—10.30 Opening Worship and Introductions
10.30—11.15 Key Note One: Denis Alexander and Ruth Bancewicz: Science and faith ¬the big picture..
11.15—11.45 Coffee
11.45—12.30 Key Note Two: Rodney Holder and Ruth Bancewicz: Is the universe designed?
12.30—13.15 Lunch (please bring your own)
13.15—14.15 Choose from four workshops:
1. Denis Alexander: Creation or Evolution - Do We Have to Choose?
2. Rodney Holder: Cosmology and the Big Bang
3. Hilary Marlow: Caring for God’s World
4. Ruth Bancewicz : Contemporary Issues in Science & Christianity
14.15—15.00 Q&As
15.00—15.45 Closing Worship
To help you choose a workshop please see details of the workshop leaders below:
Denis Alexander: Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow. Author of several books on science and faith, most recently Creation or Evolution – Do We Have to Choose? and The Language of Genetics.
Dr Ruth Bancewicz: With a background in genetics, Dr Bancewicz
moved to The Faraday Institute in 2006 to develop the ‘Test of FAITH’ introductory resources on science and Christianity.
Revd Dr Rodney Holder: Course Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. He has degrees in mathematics, astrophysics and theology, has worked in operational research, and, following ordination, served in several parishes. He is the author of Nothing But Atoms and Molecules? and God, the Multiverse, and Everything.
Dr Hilary Marlow: an affiliated lecturer in Old Testament at the University of Cambridge and an Associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. She writes and researches on the Bible and ecology and is involved with the Christian environmental charities A Rocha and John Ray Initiative.
Please advertise this event in your church and church buildings - download the poster here, for flyers/booking forms please download here
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