INFORMATION ABOUT PAST CONFERENCES

20th - 22nd June 2008 - Dovedale House, Derbyshire A beautiful mind?
Both our speakers were from L'Abri Fellowship
	Stefan Lindholm is Swedish and moved to England together with his wife, Lois, to work at L'Abri Fellowship in 2005. He has studied philosophy and theology at Lund University and currently he is doing his PhD in post-reformation christology at Stavanger school of missions, Norway. Stefan spoke on The importance of intellectual virtues (listen here)
	Andrew Fellows was born in Canada to English parents. He came back to the UK 23 years ago. Since then he has gained a wife, four children and lots of pets. For seven years he pastored a church in the North of England. For the last thirteen years he has lived and worked at L'Abri Fellowship. Andrew spoke on Cultivating a Christian mind and Integrating the mind and the imagination (listen here)
You might like to ponder the questions that we tackled in discussion groups!

22nd-24th June 2007 - Dovedale House, Derbyshire

Excellence in Christ?

Guest speaker: Vinoth

Dr Vinoth Ramachandra is the Secretary for Dialogue & Social Engagement (Asia) for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, and is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His publications include Faiths in Conflict? Christian Integrity in a Multicultural World, Gods That Fail: Modern Idolatry & Christian Mission and The Scandal of Jesus.

Two other speakers who had attended as participants in the past...

Nicole Maturen was expecting to finish her PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Michigan... soon! Based at the Natural History Museum, London, studying the evolution and development of petals and leaves in several species of plants.

Chris Watkin did his PhD in contemporary French and post-modern philosophy. In October '07 he took up a research fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, studying the 'turn to religion' in Continental thought.

23-25th June 2006 - Dovedale House, Derbyshire

Disciplined for discipleship?
- following Christ as a postgrad

Roy Searle
...is one of the leaders of the Northumbria Community, is the Director of Renovaré in Britain and Ireland and is currently The President of the Baptist Union.

Helen Parry
...trained as a teacher, and taught English for 23 years in African universities. On returning to Britain, Helen became a member of the faculty at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Her chief responsibility there is in leading the Christian in the Modern World course.

24-26th June 2005 - Dovedale House, Derbyshire

Ready? Salted?

Dr Michael Schluter from the Jubilee Centre, Cambridge, sharing on how Christians can change communities from within, particularly with reference to academia.

Rev Peter Lewis from Cornerstone Church, Nottingham, expounding the Biblical themes of salt and light.

18-20th June 2004 - Dovedale House, Derbyshire

Turning the world upside down

Prof Bob White, Professor of Geophysics, University of Cambridge. Bob has just written a book with one of last year's speakers, Denis Alexander: Beyond Belief: Science, Faith and Ethical Challenges (ISBN 0745951414). Bob will be speaking on our topic with the perspective of a scientist.

Dr Alan Storkey, author, economist, former lecturer at Oak Hill Theological College in London, and both co-founder and Chair of the Movement for Christian Democracy. Alan will be speaking from the perspective of the social sciences.

Kirstin Johnson comes from Canada, but is currently researching into the spirituality of the Victorian author George Macdonald at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in The Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts, a research institute drawing together academics from various disciplines (visual arts, dance, drama, maths, politics, music, literature, etc). She will be tackling our topic from an arts viewpoint.

Revd David Rowe, Rector of Wilford, Nottingham, who is also a regular speaker at the Keswick Convention. David will be offering us Biblical exposition on our theme.

27-29th June 2003 - Dovedale House, Derbyshire

Transforming the mind

Dr. Vinoth Ramachandra is the Secretary for University Mission and Social Engagement in Asia for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, and is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His publications include Faiths in Conflict? Christian Integrity in a Multicultural World, Gods That Fail: Modern Idolatry & Christian Mission and The Scandal of Jesus.

Dr. Denis Alexander is the head of the Molecular Immunology Programme at the Babraham Institute. He the author of Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century and editor of Science and Christian Belief.

Roy McCloughry is the director of Kingdom Trust and is the author of Living in the Presence of the Future and Making a World of Difference: Christian Reflections on Disability, and editor of Belief in Politics.