Talks

Goldilocks and the Big Bang

Scripture asserts that ‘In the beginning, God made the world’ (Genesis 1.1.) and St. John’s gospel starts, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God… All things came into being through him, and without him not...

04 Sep

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

St Augustine's Church

Richmond Road, Cambridge, CB4 3PS

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“I can trace my ancestry back to the protoplasmal primordial atomic globule”

Pooh-Bah’s claim, in W.S. Gilbert’s ‘Mikado’, as ‘a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent’ gives us one of the best and earliest jokes based on Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’.  Evolution has been known and appreciated since the...

11 Sep

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

St Augustine's Church

Richmond Road, Cambridge, CB4 3PS

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The Climate Crisis is an International Crisis: How can Christians help?

Clare and Aidan Baker from Global Justice Cambridge and Elisabeth Burleigh from Fairtrade Cambridgeshire will speak about their campaigning issues. They will raise the issue of Christians’ responsibility towards the environment and future generations and specifically talk about the theme...

25 Sep

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

St Augustine's Church

Richmond Road, Cambridge, CB4 3PS

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The Well Being of Widows in the Global South

Dr Sarada Chatterjee, a well known face from her patronage of Café 99, is a Bye- Fellow and Director of Studies in Land Economy (to become known as Environment, Law, and Economics) at Lucy Cavendish College. Her work  explores pressing...

02 Oct

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

St Augustine's Church

Richmond Road, Cambridge, CB4 3PS

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‘The House in Bacolet’

Local author, David Lambert introduces his novel, The House in Bacolet. Born in Trinidad and Tobago to a West Indian father and an Irish mother,  David grew up immersed in the rich diversity of the Caribbean where his novel is...

16 Oct

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

St Augustine's Church

Richmond Road, Cambridge, CB4 3PS

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St Augustine of Hippo

St Augustine of Hippo was born in the 4th century in the Roman province of Numidia (present day Algeria).  Revd Andrew Day will talk about this early North African saint who was one of the most influential and profound philosophers...

23 Oct

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

St Augustine's Church

Richmond Road, Cambridge, CB4 3PS

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Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus, born in modern day Libya of mixed Italian and Libyan heritage, rose to power in the late 2nd century.  Dr Carole Leronardi, who gave us such a heartfelt talk on the Windrush Generation in Cambridge last year, will...

30 Oct

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

St Augustine's Church

Richmond Road, Cambridge, CB4 3PS

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