Dear friends in Christ,
Next week, a very special event: the Spring Theology Lecture on Wednesday, April 22. Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, will speak on Our Violent World: Christian Thinking on Just War and How That Applies Today. Professor Biggar is one of the leading ethicists of the Anglican Communion, and he is widely recognized for his work on Christian thinking about the use of violence. The lecture will be in the church at 6:30pm (following the mass that follows Evensong at 5:30pm). This is an opportunity to hear from a leading scholar, who speaks in clear prose, what Christian teaching about war has been and how it might help the world today. The lecture is free and open to the public. Following a time for questions, there will be a reception.
Abraham makes very careful arrangements to get a wife for his son Isaac. Why? You are welcome to join me this Sunday, April 19, at 10am or Monday, April 20, at 12:40pm for a class on Genesis chapter 24. The Sunday class is on the 5th floor; Tuesday it’s on the 2nd. Each class is about 40 minutes.
The Rector’s Christian Doctrine Class turns this week to “Relationships: Holy Matrimony and the Church’s Response to Changing Lifestyles”: Tuesday, April 21, at 6:30pm on the 5th floor. (We will return to Andrew Hall the following week.)
Looking a bit ahead: a Good Books & Good Talk seminar on Flannery O’Connor’s novel, The Violent Bear It Away. Anyone who reads the books is welcome to the conversation in Andrew Hall, Monday, April 27, from 6:15 to 7:45pm.
Once again, it is a joy to wish you a happy Easter. That Christ is risen changes everything, even (it seems to me) what it means to have a body.
Peace,
Father Austin
