.jpg) Andrew Graystone Tuesday 18 February 2014 7pm | Andrew Graystone is Director of The Church and Media Network in the UK providing high-level ambassadorial contact between the media industry and the Christian community. Andrew advises and consults on media policy and editorial matters and provides career and pastoral advice to broadcasters and executives. His recent Masters degree in Missiology focused on the application of virtue ethics in the new media context. Too Much Information? The “digital revolution” is changing the way we work. Shop, bank, communicate, play and even worship. How can Christians find their way through the digital jungle? Andrew Graystone offers a beginners' guide to the digital environment. What are the challenges and opportunities for the church, and what will it take to be a disciple in a mass-media. Wi-fi-enabled future? |
 Dr. Robert Myles Tuesday 20 May 2014 7pm | Dr. Robert Myles recently completed his PhD in Theology at the University of Auckland, receiving a place on the Dean of Graduate Studies List for excellence in doctoral research. A revised version of his thesis is due to be published in 2014 by Sheffield Phoenix Press, entitled The Homeless Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. The Homeless Jesus of Late Capitalism This lecture explores how the interconnected contemporary concerns of cultural indeterminacy, individualism, the free market, personal responsibility, deregulated capitalism, and the liberal masking of structures of power are deeply intertwined with modern interpretations of the Bible. This can be seen especially in interpretations of the connection between Jesus and homelessness. Did Jesus 'choose' to live a homeless lifestyle as part of his prophetic mission, or was his itinerant condition thrust upon him by external socio-economic and political forces? This lecture analyses the Gospel of Matthew in particular to see what conclusions might be drawn. |
 Dr. Julie Thorpe Tuesday 16 September 2014 7pm | Dr. Julie Thorpe received her PhD in History from the University of Adelaide in 2007 and from 2007-2009 held visiting research and teaching positions at the Australian National University and University of Konstanz, Germany; Julie was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant for a study of World WarOne refugees in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the role of the international community in responding to the empire's displaced populations. She also has an interest in Catholic pilgrimage in Central Europe in the twentieth century. Silent Stitches of War: Refugees in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War This presentation explores the role of silence in traumatic histories. The specific focus is an ethnographic collection of handicrafts made by Ukrainian refugees in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War. These silent memories of war reveal the intricate threads that weave between the sacred and stories of disposition. If silence can be framed in the context of the sacred, and not just the politics of repression and essentialist debates about who has the right to speak, then declaring stories of dispossession sacred by making them accessible in the present through the absences of the past, will also require empathic responses that disrupt and displace conventional narratives about the past. |
 Daniel Munoz Tuesday 28 October 2014 7pm | Daniel Munoz is an Anglican priest and Chaplain to the Los Olivos retreat centre in Spain, where he oversees the spiritual and artistic life of the centre, as well as the yearly programme of retreats and courses. Prior to moving to Spain he served in two parishes in the Oxford Diocese (England) until 2010. Daniel is author of “Transformed by the Beloved: A guide to spiritual formation with St John of the Cross” (below), and has a particular interest in Christian, Jewish (Sephardic) and Muslim (Sufi) mysticism in mediaeval Spain (Al’Andalus). He is currently conducting doctoral studies at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) on Anglican ecclesiology. While at Vaughan Park, he will research contemporary Anglican identity, with a particular reference to theology and culture. Reimagining Anglican Identity in the 21st Century The Anglican Communion has, in the last decade, experienced some ground shifting changes and one of the greatest challenges in its history. The crisis triggered by the consecration of Gene Robinson as a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the USA, exposed deep fractures in Anglicanism’s diverse and complex ecclesial organisation. The response to this crisis, in the Anglican Covenant, had a mixed reception in the Communion. However, the process of drafting the Covenant was a gift to the whole Church. Through the various drafts and responses by the different provinces, national churches were able to creatively articulate what it means to be Anglican in their own contexts. This lecture, based on doctoral research conducted by Daniel Munoz at the University of Madrid (Spain), seeks to explore some of the key questions that emerged from these attempts to re-imagine Anglican identity in the 21st century. Amongst them: what does the Anglican Communion look like at the beginning of the new millennium? How have theology or culture shaped contemporary Anglican identity? And, how can Anglicans remain together as one family, whilst respecting diversity and each other’s integrity?  |
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