Keele Chapel Public Lectures - RELIGION and ethics
Wednesdays 1pm
25th January
Dr Charles Clapham: Religion and Ethics: An Introduction
Charles Clapham studied in Manchester, Sheffield, Durham, and New York, and worked for nine years in parish ministry in Manchester, where he also taught in the areas of modern theology and mission. He is Anglican chaplain at the University of Keele, and a visiting lecturer at Sarum Theological College.
1st February
Rt Revd William Kenney OP: Religious Ethics and the ArmsTrade
Rt Revd William Kenney CP is Bishop of Midica, an Auxiliary Bishop of of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham.
He has extensive international experience working for the pastoral-social work of the Church, and is chair of the Gothenburg Process to increase dialogue between the Churches, Governments, and the producers and users of small arms.
He is a member of the Passionist Congregation’s international advisory group on social concerns, particularly at the UN, and has lectured across Europe on social issues, ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue.
8th February
Revd David Primrose: Faith in the Big Society ?
Revd David Primrose worked as a probation officer before being ordained as an Anglican priest, and has extensive experience of working with faith-based social programmes, including time spent in Pakistan where he established a Christian project for helping heroin addicts. He is currently of Director of the Transforming Communities initiative for the Anglican Diocese of Lichfield.
15th February Dr Louay Fatoohi: Islamic Ethics
Dr Fatoohi is a British scholar who was born in Iraq, and converted from Christianity to Islam in his early twenties. He holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Baghdad, and a PhD in Astronomy from the Durham University, and is the author of numerous books in Arabic and English, including Jesus the Muslim Prophet, and Jihad in the Qur’an.
22nd February
Rabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi: Progressive Judaism and Medical Ethics
Rabbi Margaret Jacobi trained as a medical doctor and obtained a PhD in physiology, before studying for the Rabbinate at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, and Leo Baeck College, London. She has been the rabbi of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue since 1994, is honorary Progressive Jewish Chaplain at Birmingham University, and has served as joint Chair of the Rabbinic Conference of Liberal Judaism. Rabbi Jacobi has published papers on Jewish medical ethics, and is currently working for a PhD on the last chapter of Talmud Sanhedrin.
29th February
Dr Claire Hookey: Faith, Euthanasia and Assisted Dying
Dr Claire Hookey is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine, and currently the Medical Director of Douglas Macmillan Hospice in Stoke on Trent. She has worked in palliative medicine, caring for patients with life-limiting illnesses, for 13 years, including working in a hospice in Uganda for 6 months. She is a Christian, and married to the minister of Newcastle Baptist Church.
7th March
Fr Peter Jones: Identity and Ethics: What am I and what is that to you ?
Fr Peter Jones holds degrees in philosophy and in theology, and has served as a university chaplain and an Anglican parish priest. He is currently working for a D.Phil. on the metaphysical underpinning of neuroscience, and was recently appointed Vicar of Keele and Silverdale.
14th March
Revd Dr Jeremy Clines: Christian Ethics and Environmental Praxis
Revd Dr Jeremy Clines studied in York, Durham and Birmingham, and is currently Senior Chaplain at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Faiths in Higher Education Chaplaincy, and has recently completed a doctorate in eco-theology.
21st March
Revd Benjamin Earl OP: Should the Archbishop stay out of Politics ?
Fr.Benjamin Earl OP is lector in Canon Law in the Blackfriars Studium, Oxford (a Permanent Private Hall of Oxford University). His principal academic interest is in the law of religious institutes. He is also Sub Prior of Blackfriars and the Provincial Bursar of the English Dominican Province.