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The 2016/17 '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 27th Oct 2016
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
Speaker : Prof Kenneth McColl,
MD FRCP F MedSci FRSE
Professor of Gastroenterology, University of Glasgow
Lecture : How Medical
Science Makes Progress - and what about the Church.......
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THURSDAY 3rd Nov 2016
7.30pm for
8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Speaker : Rev David McLachlan,
BD Cert Min
Minister, Langside Church, Glasgow
Lecture : The Gift Of
Doubt.....
THURSDAY 17th Nov 2016
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
Speaker : Rev Scott McKenna, BA
BD MTh MPhil
Minister, Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church,
Edinburgh
Lecture : The Most
Important Journey in Life is the Inner Journey....
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WEDNESDAY 23rd Nov 2016
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Speaker : Rev Peter Macdonald
BD Cert Min
Leader of the Iona Community
Lecture : The Iona
Community Transformimg Lives to Change the World - The work of the Iona Community and the
challenges of the future....
SUNDAY 27th Nov, 4th,
11th and 18th Dec 2016 8pm
ADVENT : The Bethlehem Story..............
THURSDAY 12th Jan 2017
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
Speaker : Myra MacDonald MA
Author and former Reuters Bureau Chief, India
Lecture : Pakistan:
Politics and Religion....
THURSDAY 2nd Feb 2017
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Based on two TED talks
Speaker : Jodie Williams
Lecture : A Realistic
Vision For World Peace....
Speaker : Scilla Elworthy
Lecture : Fighting With
Nonviolence....
THURSDAY 23rd Feb 2017
23rd Mar 2017 8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
THE ROY PATERSON MEMORIAL LECTURE
Speaker : Rev Julie Nicholson
Writer and Broadcaster
Lecture : Crossing
Places...
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to Podcast
THURSDAY 9th Mar 2017
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : ORCHARDHILL
Speaker : The Very Reverend
John Miller BA BD DD
Former Moderator of the General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland
Lecture : What Shall We
Tell The Grandchildren?....
SUNDAY - SATURDAY 9th - 15th
Apr 2017 each evening 8pm
SUNDAY (Easter Day Celebrations)
16th Apr 2017 10.45am
HOLY WEEK : Easter: Beyond Belief....
EXTRA LECTURE - not shown in
the brochure
THURSDAY 4th
May 2017 8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
Speaker : Dr Val Webb
Australian Theologian on a PCN tour of the UK
(only Scottish event)
Lecture : How should we
or can we speak of God in the 21st century?...
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ADVANCE NOTICE: Thinking
Allowed Session 2017/2018
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
7.30pm for 8pm
VENUE : CAIRNS
A Scholar's Spotlight : a
Question Time with representatives of University
Theological/Philosophical depts featuring
Prof Helen Bond
 Prof
Mona Siddiqui
 Prof David Fergusson
Prof John Haldane
Chair
 Sheriff
Seith Ireland
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 2016-2017 
LECTURE ARCHIVE 2008-2016
The Thinking Allowed programmes and lectures in Cairns in recent years can be
viewed on our Lecture Archive page.
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