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The 2017/18 'Thinking Allowed' lecture
series continues the now established partnership between Cairns Church in
Milngavie and Orchardhill
Parish Church in Giffnock which means that once again there
will be a lecture series on both the North and Southside of Glasgow.
INTRODUCTION
Rev Andrew Frater Minister at Cairns introduces
this season's programme......
THURSDAY 9th November
2017
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Speaker : Very Rev Lorna Hood,
MA BDiv DDiv OBE
Former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Lecture : Srebrenica and
the End of Ethnic Tolerance.......
JOINT WEEKEND EVENT
THINKING ALLOWED/ PCN BRITAIN
VENUE : CAIRNS
FRIDAY 17th November 2017
7.30pm for 8pm
Speaker : Adrian Alker
Chair of PCN Britain
Lecture : Partners and
Protagonists.....
SATURDAY 18th November 2017
10.00am for 10.30am
Leader : Adrian Alker
All day groups and plenary sessions
Session 1 : Humanism and
Theism
Session 2 : Christianity
and a World of Other Faiths and Ideologies
Session 3 : Church and
Society
SUNDAY 19th November 2017
10.45am
Morning Service led by Rev Andrew Frater
Speaker : Adrian Alker
Address : The Church We
Never Knew...
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of the weekend
THURSDAY 23rd November
2017
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Speaker : Professor Bob Davies
MA PGCE PhD
Professor of Religious and Cultural Education at
Glasgow University
Lecture : Changing
Realities of Christian Identity in Scotland, 1918-2018...
SUNDAY 3rd, 10th and 17th
Dec 2017
8pm
ADVENT : The Three Sundays before Christmas Eve
THURSDAY 1st February 2018
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
Event : A Scholars' Spotlight
Three theology scholars under the watchful eye
of an eminent adjudicator of the law address questions received in advance from attandees
Panel : Sheriff Seith
Ireland, Prof Helen Bond, Prof David Fergusson and Rev Scott McKenna
   
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THURSDAY 15th February 2018
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Based on two TED
talks
Speaker : Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
Topic :
The danger of a single story....
Speaker : Sisonke Msimang
Topic :
Stories....
THURSDAY
15th March 2018
8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
Speaker : Rev Dr Harriet Harris
MBE
Chaplain to Edinburgh University
Lecture : The Concept of
Deity in 21st Century Christianity...
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THURSDAY 15th March 2018
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Speaker : Pádraig Ó Tuama
Leader of the Corrymeela Community
Lecture : Literate not
Literal: Reading Gospel Stories in their Poetic Glory...
SUNDAY - SATURDAY 25th - 31st
March 2018 each evening 8pm
SUNDAY (Easter Day Celebrations)
1st April 2018 10.45am
HOLY WEEK : Easter: Beyond The City Wall...
An open invitation is extended to all to attend these events
at Cairns and Orchardhill. Location maps here
Entry to the lectures is by 'donation' to
help defray costs unless otherwise stated.
DOWNLOAD
the full brochure for 2017-2018 
LECTURE ARCHIVE 2008-2017
The Thinking Allowed programmes and lectures in Cairns in recent years can be
viewed on our Lecture Archive page.
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