It is a busy time of festivals among many faith groups. Last week saw celebrations for Diwali. The Archbishop of Canterbury sent greetings to Hindu communities in the UK. Read the message and news of the launch of the Hindu Christian Forum.Staying with Lambeth, The Revd Dr Toby Howarth, Secretary for Inter Religious Affairs to the Archbishop of Canterbury and National Inter Religious Affairs Adviser for the Church of England
gave the 2011 PEN lecture at St Marylebone Parish Church last night. We hope to bring a recording of this to the PEN website in the coming days. You are invited back to St Marylebone next Monday 7th November for the 2011 Marylebone Service (an Interfaith Celebration of Marylebone - the international village). Please be seated by 6.40pm and RSVP to parishoffice@stmarylebone.org
EventsThe latest in the series of St Paul's Institute debates takes place st St Mary le Bow on Friday 4th November, 6.00pm entitled 'Microinsurance: protecting the poor in emerging markets’. Chaired by the Revd Raymond Singh (Vice Chair of the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility) see details.
Tuesday 8th November 2.00 - 4.00pm The Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue, Heythrop College is hosting a lecture 'The Prophet Jonah: An Odyssey through three religions' by Professor Anthony H. Johns. In the Australian National UniversityCampion Room, Heythrop College.
Wednesday 9th November Power, Poverty and the Church at St John's Waterloo. Details were in the September update or book here
Thursday 17th November 4.30-6.15 p.m. Friends House, Small Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility's open debate 'Vulnerable Workers, Trafficking, Pornography and the Economics of Exploitation: London 2012 and beyond' Also at 6.15pm on the same evening Theos launches the report Turbulent Priests: The Archbishop of Canterbury in Contemporary English Politics contact Theos for an invitation.
Inter Faith Week is 2oth to 26th November also see The Inter Faith Network for the UK E- Bulletin
Books and Publications
The report on the research project 'The Mosque in the Comunities' is now avialable from Faith Matters.
See our blogs on Jesus Through Asian Eyes and The Story of REinspired
Also recommended The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the 21st Century published by Cambridge University Press
The latest in the series which report on the Building Bridges dialogue process (this from the 2008 round) will be published shortly by Georgetown University Press edited by The Revd Dr David Marshall Communicating the Word: Revelation, Translation, and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam has an Afterword by Archbishop Rowan Williams.
Which brings us back nicely to where we began ........Happy All Saints tide
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