A Political Faith?
Monday 3 June 2024
Church Times and Modern Church are excited to collaborate for a
new webinar series in anticipation of this year's General Election.
- Start Date:
- Monday 3rd June 2024
- Start Time:
- 6:00PM
- Location:
- Online
- Speakers:
- Min Shermara Fletcher-Hoyte, Jenny Leith, Graeme Smith, Elaine Graham
- Host:
- Church Times and Modern Church
- Cost:
- £10 or £5 for Church Times subscribers
- Website:
- https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/a-political-faith
At its best, Christianity is a worldly religion – seeking to build a kingdom/kindom of God on earth and challenging the ‘principalities and powers’ that seek to oppress and imprison us. Across history, Christians have clashed and colluded with those in political power – for good and for ill. This panel will explore where we have come to and ask, where should we go next? What can we learn from the history of political theology? Can churches be (re)formed in conversation with party politics, and how can we bring an effective and ethical influence to bear on those who hold political power?
Speakers
Min Shermara Fletcher-Hoyte, National Principal Officer for Pentecostal, Charismatic and Multi-Cultural relations at Churches Together in England.
Dr Jenny Leith, author of ‘Political Formation: Being Formed by the Spirit in Church and World’, SCM Press, 2023.
Professor Graeme Smith, founder editor of the International Journal, ‘Political Theology’, Taylor and Francis.
Chaired by Professor Elaine Graham of Modern Church