Annual Conference 2007

With The Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams

St Alban’s Centre, Baldwin Gardens
Holborn, LONDON EC1
Saturday 21 April 2007

  The Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement was delighted and honoured to be able to host the world-renouwned theologian and great friend to the LGBT community, The Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams (left), as the Keynote Speaker at our Annual Conference.

Click here to listen to Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams's lecture in MP3 format. The speech is approximately 42 minutes long (17.3 MB). Alternatively, if you prefer, you may download the full text of the lecture in PDF format (180k).

The Lecture

"Leaven in the Lump of Lambeth: Spiritual Temptations, Ecclesial Opportunities"

"Christian action to end oppression--civil or ecclesial--must grow out of our fundamental vocation to stand up to our full stature in Christ. Like the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King, Jr, like the anti-apartheid movement under Archbishop Tutu, our efforts call for distinctive spiritual disciplines that are sure to bear fruit."

About Prof. Adams

Marilyn McCord Adams is Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. An American ordained in the Episcopal Church, she became involved in LCGM issues when she worked in a Hollywood church during the AIDS epidemic in the 80's. She has been an activist committed to uprooting the sex and gender taboos in church and society ever since. Before coming to Oxford she taught philosophy of religion and medieval philosophy at UCLA for 21 years, and historical and philosophical theology at Yale Divinity School for ten years. Her books include William Ockham (2 vols), Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology, and Wrestling for Blessing (a collection of sermons).

Programme

09:00 - Registration, Coffee/Tea, Sign-up for workshops
09:45 - Opening Worship
10:00 - Annual General Meeting (For full National LGCM Members only)
11:30 - Coffee
11:45 - Workshops (1), Anglican Matters / Networks
12:30 - Lunch
13:00 - URC Caucus
14:00 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS by the Revd. Prof. Marilyn McCord Adams
14:45 - Workshops (2)
15:30 - Workshops (3)
16:15 - Tea
16:45 - Closing Worship

Other activites included

ENQUIRIES:

LGCM National Office
Tel/Fax: 020 7739 1249
Email: lgcm@lgcm.org.uk
Web: http://www.lgcm.org.uk