Our call as Christians is to be like Jesus, who stood on the margins, comforting the oppressed and challenging those who are comfortable.
In this webinar we will examine the nature of the prophetic call of the Church in today’s world. We will look at ways in which different churches have risen to the challenge of their calling and at recent examples of times when the churches have failed to fulfil their calling to “speak truth to power”.
Wednesday 14 September 2022, 18:00 – 19:30 BST
Join our panel:
Andy Pettman, a member of the Society for Ecumenical Studies and your host for this webinar
The Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy is the former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (2014-22). From 2004-14 Martyn was the Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, one of the largest Anglican ordination training centres in the world. He has also undertaken a number of roles with charities and in public life, including being a Director of the Advertising Standards Authority and an Advisor to the British Board of Film Classification. Martyn writes on religion in contemporary culture and modern ecclesiology. He teaches for the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, and tutors in the Social Sciences Division and at the Saïd Business School.
Revd. Heidi Petersen is Minister of St. Barnabas United Church, Johannesburg. She has been a ordained minister of word and sacrament for 22 years and considers herself a feminist theologian as well as a Christian social activist. She is an activist against gender based violence and femicide. She is currently in a mission partnership with an organisation called-ACT which is a group that fights the scourge of child trafficking. Revd Heidi is also the Deputy chairperson of the Church Unity Commission.
Ian Marshall was a Professor of Sustainable Engineering at Lancaster University. He retired early to focus on voluntary work. He is currently the Quaker Denominational Ecumenical officer at Churches together Lancashire, and a trustee of the Ecumenical chaplaincy at Lancaster University. He is also an Authorised Lay minister in the Church of England. In addition, pre COVID he was a member of the Quaker World relations committee, and a countryside ranger for Lancashire county council.
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