Eastern and Western Christian thought on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations

This two day Conference Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th March 2011 is hosted by the Centre for Eastern Christianity
It will bring together experts on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations from a number of Churches, Latin and Eastern Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Ptoestant, to share expereince,mainly from Europe and the Middle East and current research on Christian theological thought on Islam and how this impacts upon the actual relationship between Islam and Christianity.

Venue - The Charlwood Room,
Heythrop College,23 Kensington Square
Kensington, London W8 5HN

Time - 10.00 - 5.00 each day
Registration is required download application form
For enquiries email j.flannery@heythrop.ac.uk

For full list of speakers and topics click here

London Metropolitan University, Annual Chaplaincy Lecture

Shaykh 'Abd al-Wahid Pallavicini - A Sufi Master's Messgae
With a response byAbd-al-Haqq Guiderdoni
followed by an open discussion.

Wednesday 9th February 9.30 for 10.00 am.

London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre, GC 18
Tower Building 166-220 Holloway Road, N7 2DB

Everybody is warmly invited to hear this influential and revered leader
of the Sufi School of Islamic Thought.

Light lunch provided at 12.30pm
To book a place email chaplaincy.studentservices@londonmet.ac.uk

Descended from Abraham:

Exploring the Common Heritage of Jews, Christians and Muslims
by Dr Edward Kessler, Executive Director, The Woolf Institute

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Doors open from 6:30pm. Lecture starts 7pm.

At the Ramada Jarvis Hyde Park Hotel, 150 Bayswater Road, London W2 4RT

Tickets are free but spaces are limited.
Email info@projectmosaic.net to reserve your place.

Dr Edward Kessler is a leading thinker in interfaith relations, including Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations. He is Founder and Executive Director of the Woolf Institute and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. Dr Kessler has written or edited nine books and dozens of articles, and also writes for print and broadcast media.

New Resource from Conflict and Change

Conflict and Change is a voluntary organisation building bridges of understanding within and between communities in Newham, East London, one of the most diverse areas of the United Kingdom. In 2010 it celebrated 25 years of bringing Newham people together.

One of its programmes - Faiths in Action now offers a toolkit, available to download from the Conflict and Change website.

What is Faiths in Action?

Since 2009, Conflict and Change has been running training courses for local women to develop the skills to facilitate at inter-faith events. The focus for this particular course has been on training women because it is recognized that interfaith is an area where they tend to have less influence and confidence.

The training takes place over 4 days, and participants then go on to run an event (or events) where people from different faith backgrounds meet to build relationships and understanding with each other through taking part in shared conversation or activity. For dates of the next course see the Conflict and Change website or to view the toolkit, download materials and adapt for your own use see here.

A Christian-Muslim-Humanist 'Trialogue'

Tuesday 25th January at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG 6.30 - 9.15 pm

Can religion and secular values complement each other in the public arena? Or is it impossible?Multifaith dialogue hosted by the Christian Muslim Forum.

Speakers:

• Julian Bond, Director, Christian Muslim Forum
• Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, President, Christian Muslim Forum and Chair of the Muslim Council of Britain's Masjid and Community Affairs Committee
• Peter Cave, Chair of the Humanist Philosophers

Latest in JustShare Programme

JustShare Christian Social and Political Thought Lecture

Wednesday 26th January at 6.05pm:
The Revd Chris Brice, founder member of JustShare, Chair of Operation Noah and Priest in Charge of St Martin’s Gospel Oak, is giving the first lecture in the 2011 Christian Social and Political Thought Series. His title is: ‘What right has the Church to interfere in matters of politics and economics? The Gospel according to William Temple.’ Chris will be introduced by another old friend to JustShare, Maria Elena Arana of CAFOD.

All lectures in the series take place at

St Mary le Bow Church, Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU

Other dates and titles to note:-

Wednesday 23rd March
Credit Crunch and custody:symbols of social dislocation The Rt Revd Peter Selby, former Bishop of Worcester
Wednesday 30th March
Strangers and neighbours:wealth and poverty The Right Hon. Ann Widecombe, former MP and cabinet minister
Wednesday 11th May
Responding to the Big Society The Revd Dr Angus Ritchie, Director, the Contextual Theology Centre
All at 6.05pm

Faith & Citizenship in Pakistan

Thursday 13th January, 6.30 - 8.45pm
Hosted by St John's Church Waterloo in association with Christians Aware
The Rt Revd Richard Cheetham, Bishop of Kingston and Chairman of the Christian Muslim Forum chairs an evening of presentations and discussion. Contributors are Bishop Mano Rumalshah, recently retired Bishop of Peshawar; Iftikhar Malik, Professor of History at Bath Spa University and author of Pakistan:Democracy, Terror and the building of a nation; Fazana Shaikh, Fellow of Chatham House and author of Making Sense of Pakistan.
The evening begins with refreshments.
Enquiries to awarner@stjohnswaterloo.co.uk or barbarabutler@christiansaware.co.uk