‘In the Shelter of Each Other the People Live’
How do we build a church and a society with the marginalised, the excluded and the most vulnerable at its heart? What does ‘home’ mean for those who are homeless or struggling to keep a roof over their heads, for those who have fled their homes, for those who are rejected or don’t ‘fit in’? And for the comfortable and secure, is it a space to defend or to open in welcome? Can we recognise that it is only in relationship with each other and with the earth that we share that we can all be truly ‘at home’?
Friday 20 – Sunday 22 July 2018
The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, DE55 1AU
Rev Al Barrett
Rector of Hodge Hill Church, a CofE-URC ecumenical partnership in east Birmingham. He lives on a diverse outer estate on the edge of the city, and has been involved in a journey of community-building there, with friends and neighbours, for the last 7 years. He writes and teaches a bit, blogs irregularly at thisestate.blogspot.com, and recently finished a PhD, seeking to develop ‘a radically receptive political theology in the urban margins’.
David McLoughlin
Tteacher at Newman University. He is a theological resource person for Caritas Europe, CAFOD, Pax Christi, the J&P network and various groups of Religious. He is a founder member of the Movement of Christian Workers and an active member of their Birmingham revue of life group for 30 years. He explores the relationship between theology and everyday life and offers radical readings of the Bible for Christian activists.
Sarah Teather
Director of Jesuit Refugee Service UK since January 2016. She served for 12 years as MP in north west London. She stood down in 2015 and worked with JRS International, visiting refugee projects around the world, before taking up her present post.
John Grogan MP
Elected in 2017 as Labour MP for Keighley and Ilkley, having previously been MP for Selby before boundary changes abolished the seat. He is committed to issues of social justice and peace, voting against Trident renewal.
The Conference will be chaired by Housing Justice
Fr Colum Kelly
Apostleship of the Sea port chaplain for Immingham.
Booking Form and Timetable can be downloaded from the top right hand side of this article.
For more information contact: admin@justice-and-peace.org.uk
or visit: justice-and-peace.org.uk/conference
