Listen to some great lectures from the past!
Click on the links below to hear or see recordings of past lectures the Chaplaincy Centre has hosted.
Chaplaincy Youtube Channel (including recorded Café Théologique events)
Café Théologique page
2024
Being Human in a Time of AI - Annual in-conversation event
Jesus and the Small Boats: How Should we Respond to Refugees - Rev Steve Tinning
Gloriously Fat: Christian Theology and the Fat Female Body - Sarah Pritchard
2023
The Sea as a Place of Spiritual Encounter: Mission in a Post-Secular World - Rev Susie Templeton
Forgiveness: An Exploration - in conversation with Marina Cantacuzino MBE
Unveiled: Rebel Women of the Old Testament - Rev Clare and Micah Hayns
2022
Poetry, Theology and Queerness - Jay Hulme
Why Christians Need to Stop Evangelising (Badly) and Have a Conversation - James Butler
Autism and Theology: What can Autistic Thinking Offer to the Church? - Stewart Rapley
Can Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse Change and Should We Even Try? - Riana Taylor
Annual Chaplaincy Lecture 2022: Spirituality and Mental Health - John Swinton
Creative Climate - Rise to the Moment
2021
The Poetry and Theology of RS Thomas - Rev Dr Carys Walsh
Potiphar's Wife and the Invisible Female Sexual Aggressor - Sam Drysdale
Whose Church of England is it Anyway? Richard Hooker and Anglican Identity - Philip Hobday
The Gospel According to Trump: Christian Nationalism - Dr Stephen Backhouse
2020
Fairtrade lecture by John Steel
God, the British and Europe - Learning lessons from the Reformation by Philip Hobday
When did we see you naked - Dr Jayme Reaves and Prof. David Tombs
Blue Planet, Blue God: The Bible and the Sea - Dr Rebecca Watson
A God of Genes and Viruses - Prof. John Bryant
2019
Faith in the shadow of Grenfell by Mike Long
Jesus the Lamb by Conrad Hicks
2018
Queer to be religious? by Alison Webster
Gender equality - still an issue for us? by Terrie Robinson
2017
Can a person's calling include sex reassignment surgery? by Mike Peat
Why we need to talk about sin - differently by Stephen Cherry
Chasing the money changers from the Temple of our Democracy by Ann Pettiphor
2016
Joanna Jepson in conversation with Sir David Bell Jan 2016
What do University Chaplains do? by Mark Laynesmith
Earlier talks
The Heavens are telling the Glory of God - The Theological Imagination of CS Lewis by Michael Ward
Enough food for everyone: make it happen by Ben Haines (audio)
Bite back at hunger Christian Aid talk by Thelma Ma Phiri from the Dabane Trust, a Christian Aid Partner (audio)
The Psychology of Volunteering: Motivating Behaviour Change by Rachel McCloy (accompanying presentation slides for Dr. McCloy's talk can be found here)
How to be a bad Christian and a better human being by Dave Tomlinson (audio)
How to be an Agnostic by Mark Vernon (audio)
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