Dear all - you may be interested in the below information, offered by a training provider external to the Diocese of Chester. Do follow up via the links below if these are of interest.

The Faraday Institute has two upcoming courses for church leaders (very much including lay readers) which should interest some in the Diocese of Chester.

The first is ‘Mental Health Challenges: A Christian Response’, a day course on Saturday 4^th November, both online and in Cambridge.  Join us to consider how the church can engage with issues surrounding mental health.  See the attached flier or faraday.institute/mentalhealth for more information.

The second course is ‘Artificial Intelligence, Genuine Care: Helping church leaders to think Christianly about technology’.  This course is spread over five evenings starting in November – see the attached flier or faraday.institute/genuinecare for more details.

Our Youth and Schools team offer fun, interactive sessions for children and young people of all ages as well as training for Children’s and Youth Workers on a range of topics relating to science and faith – if you’d like to find out more, visit faradayeducators.com/edu-about-us

We will also be holding a public lecture on Thursday 9^th November, when Prof. David Fergusson (Cambridge University) will speak on ‘The Persistence of Faith: Scientific and Theological Perspectives’.  The lecture will be at 6pm in Emmanuel College, Cambridge.  All are welcome – book online at faraday.institute/publiclecture

As term restarts, so are our Research Seminars – these are held at 1pm in the Woolf Building, Madingley Road, Cambridge as well as bring broadcast online via Zoom.  Register at faraday.institute/seminars

17^th October       Prof. Benjamin Doolittle (Yale University)               Cancer, Immortality and Christology: The Theological Resonance of Henrietta Lacks

31^st October        Prof. Maria Ubiali (Cambridge University)               Effective Field Theories in Particle Physics: A Mathematical Bridge to the Unknown

14^th November   tbc

28^th November   Dr Andrew Jackson (Nottingham University)          The Divine Logic of Evolution: Reading Evolutionary Biology through the Lens of Maximus the Confessor’s Logoi Cosmology.