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9 June 2009
thePROJECT:2, 'In the Flesh'
thePROJECT, a Scottish festival of arts, culture and faith, launches its first, physical event on Saturday 20th June in Edinburgh. It promises a "clanjamfrie of music, poetry, creativity, conviviality, workshops and worship".
thePROJECT website 
10 March 2009
BIAPT 2009 Conference
Public Theology: Dialogue in the Public Square
Keynote talks include 'What Makes a Good City? Public Theology and the Urban Church', 'Friendship: A Model for Interfaith Dialogue' and 'Passionate People, Passionate Places: Regeneration and the Churches' Role in a Changing North East'. 14th - 16th July, 2009 at Ushaw College, Durham.
The British & Irish Association for Practical Theology
26/27 August 2008
Faith and Citizenship: Friends or Enemies
This conference explores the academic debate concerning the historical, theological and philosophical relationship between faith and citizenship; looks at political action and the community organising as a means of relating faith and citizenship; and addresses the relationship between the two in schools and education.
Programme (PDF)
London Metropolitan University website
13 May 2008
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor gives a personal perspective on Faith in Britain today at the Cardinal's Lectures: Faith and Life in Britain .
4 April 2008
Tony Blair talked on Faith and Globalisation at the Cardinal's Lectures: Faith and Life in Britain .
29 January 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, presented the James Callaghan Memorial lecture entitled Religious Hatred and Religious Offence
28 March 2007
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor delivered the Thirtieth Thomas Corbishley Memorial Lecture on The Kingdom of God and this World: the Church in Public Life.
