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• Webinar 4: Being Interrupted: Reimagining the Church’s Mission from the Outside In

  'Being Interrupted: Reimagining the Church’s Mission from the Outside In’. Ruth Harley and Al Barrett  in conversation with Sanjee Perera about their book of the same title. 
  

  • This webinar took place on Tuesday 23 March, 2-3pm, via Zoom, on the theme: ' Being Interrupted: Reimagining the Church’s Mission from the Outside In’. Ruth Harley and Al Barrett  in conversation with Sanjee Perera about their book of the same title. A BSL interpreter was present throughout the seminar.

    
    

    Here's the publisher's description of Being Interrupted:

    "Beginning with a ‘Street Nativity Play’ that didn’t end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Being Interrupted locates an institutionally-anxious Church of England within the wider contexts of divisions of race and class in ‘the ruins of empire’, alongside ongoing gender inequalities, the marginalization of children, and catastrophic ecological breakdown.

    "In the midst of this bleak picture, Al Barrett and Ruth Harley open a door to a creative disruption of the status quo, ‘from the outside, in’: the in-breaking of the wild reality of the ‘Kin-dom’ of God. Through careful and unsettling readings in Mark’s gospel, alongside stories from a multicultural outer estate in east Birmingham, they paint a vivid picture of an ‘alternative economy’ for the Church’s life and mission, which begins with transformative encounters with neighbours and strangers at the edges of our churches, our neighbourhoods and our imaginations, and offers new possibilities for repentance and resurrection.”

    Though rooted in a Church of England context, this is a book which has a challenging message for many other church contexts as well.

     

    The authors, Ruth Harley and Al Barrett, will be in conversation with Sanjee Perera, recently appointed as the Archbishops' Adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns.

    
    

    
    

    
    
• Webinar 3: 'Preaching Hope and Resistance in times of Struggle'

  with renowned anti-apartheid activist, theologian and author, Prof Allan Boesak.
  

  • About this Event:

    This webinar will be an exciting opportunity to listen, learn and engage with renowned anti-apartheid leader, activist, theologian, author, and minister, Prof Allan Boesak. Prof Boesak has spent his life committed to the cause of freedom, reconciliation and justice. In 1983, he called for the formation of the United Democratic Front, which would grow into the largest, nonviolent, non-racial anti-apartheid formation in the history of the struggle. He worked with Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu, Rev. Frank Chikane and other world leaders and justice activists to end apartheid.

    Prof Boesak is the recipient of thirteen honorary Doctor's degrees and several awards among those, the Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award and the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Award. Recently he was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. International Board of Preachers at Morehouse College. He is also the author of 22 books and has been teaching across the world. Prof Boesak continues his teaching and preaching while remaining active in global struggles for human rights.

    This webinar will be an opportunity to reflect on the power of preaching hope and resistance in times of struggle from the perspective of someone who has worked tirelessly to challenge systems of oppression and cultures of impunity through homiletics.

    Prof Allan Boesak will be in conversation with Dr Dulcie Dixon McKenzie, Director for the Centre for Black Theology at The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education. Dr Dixon McKenzie is an outstanding theologian and theological educator who has delivered ground-breaking research and teaching in the areas of Black Theology and Black Pentecostalism in Britain.

    Find out more about Dr Dulcie McKenzie here.

    Find out more about Prof Allan Boesak here.

    The event will take place via Zoom, 20 November, 2-3pm.

    Please note that a BSL interpreter will be present at this event.

     You can sign up to the webinar here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-awards-webinar-preaching-hope-and-resistance-in-times-of-struggle-tickets-125916021209 

  • The recorded webinar is now available here:

    
    
• Webinar 2: Theme - Re-thinking Mission and Evangelism

  This webinar is an opportunity to explore postcolonial, contextual, and global church perspectives on mission and evangelism!
  

  • About this event:

    • How is our understanding of mission impacted by context?
    • What do we mean by postcolonial mission and how does this affect contemporary understandings of evangelism?
    • How does Britain’s Imperial past, rooted in the atrocities of empire, impact contemporary understandings of mission and evangelism?
    • How can we learn from the global church in developing missional congregations?

    These are just some of the questions that will be addressed in this Common Awards webinar entitled: Rethinking Mission and Evangelism...

    Dr Cathy Ross, leading missiologist, contextual theologian and head of Pioneer Mission Leadership Training, Church Mission Society, will be in conversation with Rev Dr Anderson Jeremiah, outstanding theologian and lecturer in World Christianity, Lancaster University. The Webinar will be hosted by Chine McDonald, writer, broadcaster, and Head of Community Fundraising and Public Engagement at Christian Aid.

    The event took place via Zoom, 30 October, 2-3pm.

    Please note that a BSL interpreter was present at this event.

    

    Find out more about Dr Cathy Ross here. 
    

    Find out more about Rev Dr Anderson Jeremiah here.
    

    Find out more about Chine McDonald here.

    Additional resources for further reading:

    Faultlines in Mission: Reflections on Race and Colonialism, ANVIL. Vol. 36, Issue 3 

    Jeremiah, A. "Race, Caste and Christianity: A Post-Colonial Analysis", International Review of Mission (2020) 

  • The recorded webinar is now available here: 
• Webinar 1: The Bible and Resisting Racism

  An opportunity to listen to discussions on the role of the Bible in resisting racism by exploring the intersections of faith, Scripture and racial justice!
  

  • About this Event

    How does the Bible address issues of racism, prejudice and oppression? What are the implications of our social location on who we are and how we understand the Bible? How can the Bible help us in our formation to become racial justice advocates in our theology and ministry...?

    These are just some of the questions that will be addressed in this Common Awards webinar entitled: The Bible and Resisting Racism.

    Prof Robert Beckford, professor of Black Theology at The Queens Foundation, will be in conversation with Prof Grant Macaskill, Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen. The Webinar will be hosted by Augustine Tanner-Ihm, winner of the 2020 Theology Slam.

    This event took place via Zoom, on 4 September, 2-3pm.

    A BSL interpreter was present at this event.

    Find out more about Prof Beckford here: http://www.queens.ac.uk/people/consultants/robert-beckford

    You can also find more resources on Prof Robert Beckford here https://hub.commonawards.org/course/view.php?id=38&section=5 

    Find out more about Prof Macaskill here: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/divinity-religious-studies/profiles/grant.macaskill

    You can find more resources from Prof Grant Macaskill, including his book: Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, here.

    The Bible and Resisting Racism Webinar is available here: