The Conversation

You're invited to join The Conversation

What? : The Conversation is a regular event discussing the questions of life behind the issues of today. The aim is to expand our thinking on topics that matter by including God and faith in the conversation. It will help people of faith or no faith to explore the relevance of Christian faith and ask any question they have.

How? : Each Conversation will engage with experts via filmed interviews and panel discussion. There will also be an audience question time and the option to continue the conversation the following week by joining an 'Open to Question' discussion group. It will also be available as a podcast.

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Previous Conversations:


The Clerkenwell Hustings 21 April 2010
Candidates from major parties appeared for a special hustings event in the St James Clerkenwell crypt.

Listen and watch the event:

Part 1- Introduction, opening speeches and the national deficit

Part 2- Finsbury Health Centre, housing in Islington South and Finsbury

Part 3- Crime, young people and the eldery

Video- 'Life in Islington'

Part 4- Closing statements and thank-yous

The Africa Conversation (2) 28 March 2010
Feedback from a recent trip to Nairobi undertaken by a team from St James, as well a Conversation on how African and English people might support and teach each other in following Jesus.

Listen and watch the event:

Carlile College: Welcome to Nairobi

View from the Vicar

Information on Kibera Education Project

The Healthy Relationships Conversation- 14 Feb 2010, 11 am
Not all conversations improve relationships. Engage in one that will.

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Interview with Pete Matthews, Ernst + Young

Panel discussion 1

Interview with Viv Thomas, founder of Formation

View from the Vicar

Panel discussion 2

The Copenhagen Conversation, 22 November 2009
A one hour programme of interviews, panel discussion and question time on the UN climate change conference. Guests were academic Mike Hulme, Emily Thornberry MP and environmental architect Cheryl Pilliner-Reeves.

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Panel discussion 1

Jayde Bradley from Christian Aid

Panel discussion 2

Will Campbell-Clause from aRocha

The view from the vicar

Darwin: Science, Suffering and God, October 21 2009
2009 marked the anniversaries of Charles Darwin’s birth and publication of On the Origin of Species. To commemorate the occasion The Conversation explored an aspect of Darwin’s theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. In his book Darwin writes that Natural Selection is driven by the universal fight against death and suffering.  The topic, therefore, focused on different philosophical approaches to nature and suffering.

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