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.

The podcast is here

The pdf text file can be downloaded here

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.

You can download the pdf of the text here

Radical Orthodoxy - The God of Israel

This is the third in a series of lectures for Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre, given by the Ven. David S Lee, former Archdeacon of Llandaff. It explores the variety of images and portrayals of God in the Jewish scriptures.

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What is evangelisation?

A long essay from Enzo Bianchi, founder of the Ecumenical Benedictine community of Bose in the Piedmont, Northern Italy. He analyses the social and cultural characteristics of post-modern secular society, and from a strong post Vatican II traditional description of the nature and purpose of evangelisation, proceeds to explore how it needs to be practiced in post-modern secular culture.
The English version of a French translation of the original Italian, you can download here

Radical Orthodoxy - The Lych Gate

This is the second in a series of lectures for Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre, given by the Ven. David S Lee, former Archdeacon of Llandaff. It charts the spread of secularity over the past two centuries.

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Spirituality evolving

A paper on 21st Century Spirituality from Tom Arthur, Minister of City United Reformed Church Cardiff.

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Radical Orthodoxy - Believing in Industry

This is the first 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 mind-set of people in the context of modern industrial life, in which there is no room for God, or conventional piety in the everyday discourse of the work-place. A case study in contemporary secularity.

You can download the pdf of the text here