Faith in the World: ‘Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with god.’

Date: Tuesday 7th June

Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Location: Manchester Cathedral, Victoria Street, Manchester M3 1SX

Tickets: FREE - booking is essential, tickets are available here: https://faith-in-the-world.eventbrite.com 

Join us at Manchester Cathedral for an evening of exploring what it means to have Faith in the World. We begin with a panel presentation by a variety of speakers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds—ministers of religion, creative writers—who have found heaven crammed into some surprising places. This will be followed by a time of discussion.

Speakers and Contributors include:

• Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has 18+ years of experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University, with a particular interest in digital culture and how this affects the third sector, especially voluntary and faith organisations.
• Canon Richard White is one of the members of clergy at Liverpool Cathedral and the Director of the Joshua Centre, which focusses on starting new congregations across the region. He also oversees two new congregations at the cathedral including ‘Sepas’, a Persian speaking congregation with over a hundred asylum seekers and refugees.
• Dr Catherine Wilcox is a novelist and lecturer in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she teaches Creative Writing. Her latest novels are a 21st Century take on the Victorian serialised novel. Blogged in weekly instalments, they seek to chronicle the Church of England and its contentious debates through the medium of the fictional Diocese of Lindchester.

This event is part of Humanities in Public's World strand.

Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to disability equality. If you have any access requirements, please let us know via 0161 247 6710 or email us at h.darby@mmu.ac.uk before you arrive to help us to make sure that your visit to the event is as enjoyable as possible.