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May 2021
10-16 May –
10-16 May – Christian Aid Week: Virtual events In and around CA Week, virtual events include: Quiztian Aid 7pm Saturday 8th May. A fun-filled online quiz has returned from last year, suitable for all of the family. It’ll be hosted by some special guests, who will be announced soon. Song of the Prophets Join us on Tuesday 18 May to witness the debut performance of a new orchestral work Song of the Prophets: A Requiem for the Climate. There will be an address from…
Find out more »Tues 11th May – CWDF Forum-by-Zoom (AGM)
Tues 11th May - CWDF Forum-by-Zoom (AGM) 7.00pm Speaker Henry Sidsaph on the theme Miténgo coffee, - tree planting through ethical coffee? Henry is a PhD researcher at the Business Research Institute at the University of Chester. Further details TBA. The AGM is an important opportunity to consider the overall work of the Forum and to appoint/ confirm membership of the Forum committee
Find out more »Wed 12th May – ‘Mary taught her son a lesson that day’ Women’s voices in the Bible
An in-person event for Christian Aid in CA Week, an evening of storytelling, poetry and music. People are invited to reserve seats in the church, and it will also be available on Zoom and Facebook. Trevor will draw upon his young people’s Bible, The Book of Books, on four of his published collections of stories and poems, and on a story preached in Lichfield on Easter Day in 2013. Michael Reynolds, the organist and choirmaster at St Mary’s and another…
Find out more »Tues 25th May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law (Day 1)
Tues 25th & Wed 26th May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law Free online conference on the afternoons of these dates, organised by the Balfour Project. Exploring the distance between international law – which Britain has pledged to uphold – and the lived reality in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speakers include Baroness Hale, Dominic Grieve, Philippe Sands, and a range of parliamentarians. Balfour Project: working for Peace, Justice and Equal Rights in Israel/Palestine, acknowledging Britain’s historic role…
Find out more »Wed 26th May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law (Day 2)
Tues 25th & Wed 26th May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law Free online conference on the afternoons of these dates, organised by the Balfour Project. Exploring the distance between international law – which Britain has pledged to uphold – and the lived reality in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speakers include Baroness Hale, Dominic Grieve, Philippe Sands, and a range of parliamentarians. Balfour Project: working for Peace, Justice and Equal Rights in Israel/Palestine, acknowledging Britain’s historic role…
Find out more »July 2021
Tues 13th Jul – CWDF Forum-by-Zoom: “Fair Tax Now”
7.00pm Speaker Justin Thacker, Director of the campaign Church Action for Tax Justice. The Fair Tax Now campaign calls for fairer national and global tax systems, and puts forward a range of policy proposals designed to make the tax system fairer for all.( CATJ is one of the programmes of ECCR, the Ecumenical Council for Corporate responsibility.) Click on the image to download a PDF copy of the Fair Tax Now report
Find out more »September 2021
Tues 14th Sept – CWDF Forum: “A Year of Summits”
7.00pm For our first session of the 2021-22 season Gill Miller will provide an overview of the major international gatherings that have taken place and are still to take place over the course of 2021 – including the G7 and G 20 gatherings and, not least “COP 26”, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, being held in Glasgow from 1st -12th November. We all hope that, by the time we reach September, our Forum session will be able to…
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