Through its core operations, business has the potential to increase human well-being. Peter Heslam explores how the institutional, relational, moral, and spiritual dimensions of business can help realise this potential. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12151905/peter-heslam-capitalism-what-good-is-it.mp3[/embed]...
Women in the twenty-first century have opportunities our great-grandmothers hardly dreamed of. But has there been a downside to feminism? What about the current assumption that gender is purely a social construct? Do women really want the same things out of life as men? What about the expectation that complete sexual freedom will lead to greater fulfillment? [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12151206/sharon-james-has-feminism-been-counterproductive.mp3[/embed]...
David McIlroy studied law at the Universities of Cambridge and Toulouse and theology at Spurgeon’s College. He is a practising barrister, and specialises in employment law and banking law. He is the author of A Biblical View of Law and Justice (2004) and of A Trinitarian Theology of Law (2009). [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12144939/david-mcilroy-does-the-law-need-a-moral-basis.mp3[/embed]...
From 1602 – 1630 three Cambridge graduates named Gosnold, Brewster and Winthrop lead explorations and settlements into the North East of America. In this 'Life in the Round' lecture and discussion, John Haden explores their motivations and the consequences of their actions. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12150028/john-haden-gold-genocide-and-goodness-in-americas-c17th-roots.mp3[/embed]...
James Joyce's 1922 novel, Ulysses has been described as one of the most important works of modernist literature. It is an experimental prose, full of puns, parodies, allusions, and rich characterisations. John Valentine is undertaking a PhD looking at how St John's Gospel and James Joyce use language to bring out meaning in their texts. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12150044/john-valentine-language-fiction-and-reality-in-ulysses.mp3[/embed]...
Andrew Carter explains the importance of developing the Christian mind. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12144836/andrew-carter-why-it-is-important-to-develop-a-christian-mind.mp3[/embed]...
Despite growing up in an Evangelical tradition suspicious of the visual, 19th-century art critic John Ruskin came to view sight as the most precious of our God-given faculties. How did Ruskin come to believe that the cultivation of vision was an individual moral imperative and the truest test of the health of an entire community or society? [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12151107/paul-shakeshaft-john-ruskin-and-the-primacy-of-vision.mp3[/embed]...
David Field joins us for a lecture and discussion. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/11202619/david-field-christianity-the-true-humanism.mp3[/embed] ...
Ellis Potter joins us for a lecture and discussion. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/11202724/ellis-potter-authority-freedom-and-epistemology.mp3[/embed]...
Paul Mills joins us for a 'Life in the Round' lecture and discussion. [embed]https://roundchurchcambridge.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/11202911/paul-mills-the-financial-crisis-a-christian-response.mp3[/embed]...