The exodus from the churches

From St John's City Parish Church Cardiff, the fourth of a series of talks for Lent, given on Fridays and repeated on Sunday evenings

An examination of changes in the way collective acts of worship have ceased to be a priority for the majority of people over the past century.

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Lenten talks podcasted - BBC interview

BBC Radio Wales interviewed the author on its weekly technology program 'Mousemat' broadcasted on 17th February 2008.

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The changing role of religion in society

Last week's Church Tines offered a helpful summary by Prof. Grace Davie of her other work on the role of 'vicarious religion', as expounded in her publications over the past five years.

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War, peace, justice, freedom

From St John's City Parish Church Cardiff, the third of a series of talks for Lent, given on Fridays and repeated on Sunday evenings

A first look at the challenges facing the world in which we live, the resources and the opportunities these offer to bring human beings into closer collaboration to secure our future.

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Radical Orthodoxy - Believing in Science

This is the sixth and final lecture in a series for Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre, given by the Ven. David S Lee, former Archdeacon of Llandaff. It explores the relationship between religious belief and scientific practice in the lives of Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Theological insights in a Godless world -
Observations for further discussion, from a review of the lecture series

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Who do you think you are?

From St John's City Parish Church Cardiff, the second of a series of talks for Lent, given on Fridays and repeated on Sunday evenings

Looking at questions of identity and faith in the light of a world-view shaped by the extraordinarily formative cultural phenomenon which is the Bible.

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Radical Orthodoxy - The Jesus story

This is the fifth in a series of lectures for Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre, given by the Ven. David S Lee, former Archdeacon of Llandaff. It examines the central place of story telling in the evolution of religion, and the influence of the story of Jesus has had and still may have in post-modern society.

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Generations of Change

From St John's City Parish Church Cardiff, the first of a series of talks for Lent, given on Fridays and repeated on Sunday evenings

A birds eye view of the past two centuries of social change, and the impact this has had on people's religious behaviour and their faith.

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Radical Orthodoxy - The Welkin Rings

This is the fourth in a series of lectures for Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre, given by the Ven. David S Lee, former Archdeacon of Llandaff. It discusses the way in which the content of traditional hymns can be subject to revision and editing by subsequent generations, not only modifying words that have lost their currency, but ideas that are no longer deemed acceptable. A tendency that is both liberal and secularising.

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