Beer and Theology Cambridge
by Graham Kings
Date added: 13/12/2020
Beer and Theology Cambridge
Six Mondays a year, two each 'term', on the third Monday of the month, from 8.00pm-9.30pm
at the Fort St George Pub, Midsummer Common, Cambridge CB4 1HA
Beer and Theology Cambridge (@BeerTheologyCam) was founded in October 2020 as an informal seminar. We have two items on the agenda: drink beer (or another preference); discuss theology.
It is co-sponsored by Fulcrum and the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and is a branch of the original Beer and Theology London, the details of which are here.
It is open to all. Just turn up.
Future dates, speakers and subjects 2024 26. Mon 20 May 2024, Sr Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ (St Edmund's College and Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology), 'Talking in the Air? Prayer and God talk'.27. Mon 15 July 2024, Revd Dr Mike Thompson (Retired Vice Principal and Lecturer in New Testament, Ridley Hall, Cambridge), 'The Synoptic Gospels in the Holy Internet'. Other dates for 2024, speakers still being arranged, are: Mon 16 Sept; Mon 18 Nov.
Previous dates, speakers and subjects
1. Fri 2 Oct 2020, Sam Richardson (CEO, SPCK), 'Digital Age: Theological Publishing'.
2. Fri 6 Nov 2020, Dr Jenny Leith, (Encounter Co-ordinator, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide), 'Racism: Conviction of Sin'.
3. Fri 4 Dec 2020, Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy, (Director, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide), 'Esau's Magnanimity: Dialogue Directions'.
4. Fri 5 Feb 2021, Dr Jennifer Wallace, (Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Peterhouse, Cambridge), 'Witnessing Tragedy'.
5. Fri 5 Mar 2021, Canon Dr Gordon Giles, (Canon Chancellor, Rochester Cathedral), 'Hymns: Ancient and Modern'.
6. Fri 7 May 2021, Dr Cathy Ross, (Head of Pioneer Mission Leadership, Church Mission Society), 'Mission: Adventure of the Imagination'.
7. Fri 4 June 2021, Revd Prof Jeremy Begbie, (Professor of Theology and the Arts, Duke University), 'Pneumatology at the Piano'.
8. Fri 2 July 2021, Revd Dr Matthias Grebe, (Associate Vicar, St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge) 'Revisiting the Problem of Evil'.
9. Fri 3 Sept 2021, Dr Elaine Storkey, (author of Women in a Patriarchal World and broadcaster), 'Myths and Fruitlessness: Trump and QAnon'.
10. Fri 1 Oct 2021, Simon Barrow, (Director of Ekklesia), 'Against the Religion of Power'.
11. Fri 3 Dec 2021, Esslie Hughes, (Chief of Finance and Operations, Episcopal Diocese of New York), 'Spirituality and Economics'.
12. Fri 4 Feb 2022, Dr Simeon Zahl (University Associate Professor of Christian Theology, Cambridge), 'Justification Embodied: Cranmer's Liturgies'.
13. Fri 4 Mar 2022, Silvia Dimitrova, (Artist and Icon writer, Bath), 'Art: Sacred and Secular'.
14. Mon 16 May 2022, Hannah Fytche (PhD student, Clare College, Cambridge and youth worker at St Andrew’s Chesterton), ‘Body of Christ in the Letters of Paul’.
15. Mon 18 July, Revd Dr Tim Jenkins (Reader in Anthropology and Religion and former Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge), ‘Reports of Flying Saucers’.
16. Mon 19 Sept 2022, Dr Graham Kings (Hon Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Ely), ‘Elizabeth The Gracious’.
17. Mon 21 Nov 2022, Dr Hannah Swithinbank (Ordinand, Westcott House, Cambridge), 'Effects of Empire: Israel’s Identity and Jeremiah’
18. Mon 16 Jan 2023, Lucy Sixsmith (PhD student, Trinity College, Cambridge), 'Henry Martyn's Annotated Bible'.
19. Mon 20 Mar 2023 Dr John Walker (Emeritus Reader in German Intellectual History, Birbeck College, London) 'Humboldt: Translation, Humanity, Faith and Dialogue'.
20. Mon 15 May 2023 Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Wesley House, Cambridge) ‘Disestablishing the Church of England’.
21. Mon 17 July 2023 Sr Dr Pavlina Kasparova (Academic Coordinator, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide), ’Art and Theology in Practice’.
22. Mon 18 Sept 2023, Terry Barringer (Dep Editor, Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide), 'Commonwealth: no Wealth and not much in Common?'
23. Mon 20 Nov 2023, Revd Dr Jonathan Holmes (Queens' College, Cambridge, former University Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy), 'God and Animals'.
24. Mon 15 Jan 2024, Dr Philip Johnston (Life Fellow Hughes Hall, Cambridge), Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity, 'Aloneness in the Psalms'.
25. Mon 18 Mar 2024, Dr Gareth Atkins (Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Queens' College, Cambridge), 'Charles Simeon's Bible'.
