M16 - Power and Glory? Christian reflections in an unsettling world: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
Our Sunday evening sermon series this term, ‘Power and Glory? Christian reflections in an unsettling world’, seeks to explore some of the different aspects and dimensions of power in contemporary life.
Preacher: Dr Elizabeth Henry, The Church of England’s National Adviser on Race & Ethnicity
Elizabeth Henry is part of the policy adviser team for the Church of England taking a lead on race and equality issues. She is National Adviser for the Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC). Elizabeth has worked on tackling inequalities in International, National and regional settings. Before taking up her current post she was Chief Executive Officer of Race on the Agenda (ROTA), a social policy and action research charity that focuses on race equality and issues affecting Britain's Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.
Preacher: Francis Campbell, Vice-Chancellor, St Mary’s University, Twickenham
Francis joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as a member of HM Diplomatic Service in 1997. Francis has worked at the United Nations Security Council in New York, the European Union, the FCO, and in Italy. From 1999-2003, he served on the staff of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, first as a Policy Adviser in the No.10 Policy Unit, and then as a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. He also served on secondment with Amnesty International as the Senior Director of Policy. From 2005-2011 he served as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Holy See. From 2011-13 he served as Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan. From 2013-2014 he was the Head of the Policy Unit in the FCO and Director of Innovation at UK Trade and Investment. In 2014 he was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.
Francis is a Member of the Advisory Panel of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, London. He serves as a governor of St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, and also of St. Elizabeth’s School in Richmond, Surrey. He is a trustee of Forward Thinking, a London based NGO and Think-Tank. Francis is a columnist for The Tablet magazine and is also a regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4’s Thought For The Day.
He has lived in the United States, Poland, Belgium, Pakistan, Italy and Ireland. He speaks Italian and French.
He has Honorary Doctorates from Fordham University (New York), Queen’s University (Belfast), Steubenville University (Ohio), the Pakistan Institute of Business and Technology (Karachi), and the President’s Medal from the Catholic University of America. He is also an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University.
Preacher: The Rev’d Dr Caroline Yandell, Vicar, St Peter and St Paul, Bassingbourn
Caroline is Vicar of Bassingbourn and their sister Church in Whaddon. She works part-time in the two parishes and combines this with practising as a GP. Prior to ordination, as an academic GP, her research focused on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, an interest that she maintains. More recently she has enjoyed bringing theology into dialogue with current dilemmas in medical ethics and has enjoyed teaching both medical students and ordinands.
Preacher: The Rt Rev’d Dr John Inge, Bishop of Worcester
Bishop John is the chief pastor of the Diocese of Worcester, and provides episcopal oversight to the Diocese, working with his colleagues, both lay and ordained, locally and nationally, to shape the life of the whole Church and Nation through the Good News of Jesus Christ and, in so doing, proclaim God’s Kingdom.
Bishop John provides leadership across the whole diocese and alsohas a number of specific national responsibilities and roles. He was introduced to the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual in 2012, and has a particular interest in Culture and Heritage, International Development, and Media and Communications. Bishop John is Chair of both the College of Evangelists and the Archbishop's Examination in Theology, and is a member of the Faith and Order Commission, and in September 2014, was appointed lead bishop for cathedrals and church buildings. In February 2013, he was appointed Lord High Almoner to Her Majesty the Queen.
Preacher: The Rev’d Dr Jesse Zink, Director, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide
Jesse is ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States. Prior to ordination, he served as a missionary in Mthatha, South Africa, an experience he chronicled in his book, Grace at the Garbage Dump: Making Sense of Mission in the 21st Century (Cascade, 2012).
He has traveled widely in the world church, with a particular focus on seminaries, theological colleges, and clergy education. These travels formed the basis of his book Backpacking through the Anglican Communion: A Search for Unity (Morehouse, 2014). It offers snapshots of Anglican life at the grassroots level of the church around the world and argues that, in a globalised world, unity is central to the mission of a worldwide communion. More information on both books as well as his other writings is at www.jessezink.com
Jesse has recently completed a PhD at Cambridge University where his research focused on religious change and church growth in southern Sudan during the civil war in the 1980s and 1990s.
As director, Jesse oversees the life and mission of the Centre, ranging from the Intercultural Encounter program to the library and archive. As someone who has both spent plenty of time in libraries and archives for his research and benefited from programs similar to the Encounter, he is keen to make the full riches of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide widely available to all who are interested.