'The Interior Castle':
A View from the Inside
with Andrew Fellows
on
Friday, October 23rd at 7:30pm BST (2:30pm EDT)
Part 2 of 8 in our 'Humanity Matters: Re-enchanting Homo Sapiens' series of webinars.
Consciousness is an undeniable fact and yet a profound mystery, too. What does it mean to be conscious? And what might consciousness lead us to say about our humanity? As science probes this mystery, some now argue that we are merely ‘self-conscious nothings’. In this webinar, we will take a closer look at our interior life and consider the wonders to which it points.
What are we? The answer we give to this question either grounds our nobility as humans or points to what Darwin called our ‘lowly origin’. In this first session of Christian Heritage's 'Humanity Matters' webinar series, Andrew Fellows examines various contemporary accounts of what it means to be human and...
Isaac Watts lived through a time of collision between traditional Christian faith and the forces of 'Enlightenment'. How he engaged with, critiqued and adapted to the veneration of reason is fascinating and still instructive. In this webinar, Dr Graham Beynon, Watts scholar and pastor, profiles this fascinating man, his thought...
As part of our Cambridge Characters series, Joshua Kellard introduces Beilby Porteus, sometime bishop of London, and vociferous opponent of the Slave Trade. The youngest but one of 19 children, Beilby Porteus grew up in relative wealth and privilege. His parents were natives of the colony of Virginia, and owned a...
Ian Cooper recounts a lunch table conversation at the Round Church on Identity Politics. We have had identity politics before when conflicts in the past have centred on religion, class and nation. Yet there seems to be a renewed obsession with identity today, especially in relation to gender and race. To...
Barbarism rarely reveals a bare face. It finds room in our hearts under the generous cover of ‘modern values’, it spreads with the aid of euphemisms and half-truths, and it covers its tracks with the conscience-numbing virtue of non-judgementalism. But barbarism is with us: quiet, determined, and just occasionally splashed...
A kerfuffle was precipitated this week when it emerged that Chloe Clark, an English professor at Iowa State University, had threatened to dismiss students from her classroom for voicing views contrary to her own on gay marriage, abortion, and the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM). This is what her initial...
Kevin Moss is a Christian Heritage trustee and PhD candidate in intellectual history. Earlier this month, I wrote a short piece about the toxic impact of ‘cancel culture’, especially as it is impacting upon higher education. It is worth noting that the introduction of reductionist ideologies within the secondary school system...
In the wake of the UK government's imposition of radical abortion on Northern Ireland, we talk to Philippa Taylor (CARE) and Dawn McAvoy (Both Lives Matter) about what a Christian response to the culture of abortion looks like. Photo credit: Kristina Flour...
Kevin Moss is a Christian Heritage trustee and PhD candidate in intellectual history. ‘Cancel Culture’ may not be new, but it’s suddenly gone mainstream. Perhaps it’s a secondary symptom of the COVID-19 virus. It seems that those who are doing the ‘cancelling’ are keen that our awareness of what is going on...
Kevin Moss is a Christian Heritage trustee and PhD candidate in intellectual history. Like most organisations, the implications of some kind of post-COVID-19 reboot for a charity I support are enormous. Running a visitor centre, where people have the temerity to move about, requires immensely detailed precautionary measures. Visitors have the right...