New film launched

Beyond the tipping point?A new film by the LTI is being launched in Manchester Museum on the 15th July. Beyond the Tipping Point? Conversations on Climate, Action and the Future is a documentary exploring climate tipping points and their impact upon political actions. 

Once launched, the film will be freely available as a DVD screening pack for community groups, schools and universities engaged in this topic.  

Visit the new website, where you can find out more about how to request a film, and watch the trailer: www.beyondthetippingpoint.com

Engaging Society: Reassessing Anglican Social Ethics (6-8 Sept, 2010)

The recent publication of The Children Society’s report A Good Childhood has provided a contemporary example of an older approach to social issues in which faith communities interact with specialists in different field and arrive at policy recommendations which are general enough to receive widespread support while specific enough to make an impact on government and churches, who must work out the detail of how to put them into practice (in the past these policy recommendations have been called ‘middle axioms’). This was the approach brought to prominence by William Temple in his highly influential Christianity and Social Order of 1942.  It also found expression in Faith in the City, the influential report of 1985.  The publication of A Good Childhood suggests that this approach still has mileage.  Is this the case?

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LTI Newsletter Spring 2010

Welcome to the Spring 2010 issue of the Institute’s newsletter. Much has happened at the Institute since the last newsletter was published in summer 2009. As I write, advanced preparations are underway to host the second, international, colloquium of the Belonging & Heimat project at the University of Manchester in May and a rough cut of the LTI climate change film, ‘Beyond the Tipping Point?” is being produced. There is more information on both these developments, and the recent Divinity after Empire meeting in Bangalore, elsewhere in this newsletter. A number of publications by members of the Institute have also appeared; please see inside for more details.I hope the activities presented here catch your interest. Click here to read more...

CLIMATE CHANGE & ETHICS

Lincoln Theological Institute Director Peter Scott speaks at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics to be held on 3-5 September 2010 at Westcott House, Cambridge. This year's theme is 'Theological Reflections on Climate Change'. To register, visit www.ssce.org.uk

Belonging & Heimat Symposium No. 2

The second international meeting of the Belonging & Heimat project, hosted by the Lincoln Theological Institute, takes place at the University of Manchester, 20-21st May 2010.  Bringing together scholars from Germany and UK, the symposium will explore the themes of place and belonging from a range of perspectives, including philosophy, ecology and theology. The project is directed by John Rodwell, Honorary Research Fellow at LTI, and is supported by the Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence.

Radio 4 Beyond Belief

On Monday 15th March, 4.30pm Stefan Skrimshire will be on the panel of Radio 4's Beyond Belief programme talking about Apocalyptic Language and Climate Change

The show will be available on podcast here.