Meetings take place at 7.30 p.m. in the Staff Common Room, York St. John University.

The W.T.A. aims to bring together those who wish to learn and understand more about the Christian faith and its application in the Church and society.

Annual Subscription £10.00 payable from October.

Autumn Term 2012

WEALTH

21 October. Meeting CANCELLED

4 November. Dr Ralph Kaner (formerly Director, Rowntree & Co, Chairman, United Kingdom Confectionery Division)
‘Competing for Sales in the United Kingdom Chocolate and Sugar Confectionery Market ’

18 November. Dr Richard Higginson (Lecturer in Christian Ethics and Director of Faith in Business at Ridley Hall, Cambridge)
'Faith, Hope and the Global Economy'

2 December. Benjamin Rowland (Managing Director of Agilisys Arch and Chairman of Toynbee Hall)
‘Making Money Morally: What Makes Commerce Good'

Spring Term 2013

FRANCIS, CLARE AND FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY

The Revd Rowan Williams (Anglican Chaplain to the University of York)

20 January. 'Francis of Assisi: the Misunderstood Franciscan'

3 February. 'Clare of Assisi: The Hidden Franciscan'

17 February. 'Franciscan Spirituality in Today's World'

WILLIAM TEMPLE LECTURE

3 March. The Rt Hon. David Blunkett MP
(Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)
'What Does Faith Have to Offer to Revitalising Our Political Democracy?'

Summer Term 2013

THE RELIGIOUS LIFE

28 April. Sr Cecilia Goodman CJ (Bar Convent, York)
‘Religious Life – and What a Surprise!’

12 May. Br Desmond Alban SSF (Alnmouth Friary)
'Fools for God – living the Gospel in the way of Francis of Assisi'

26 May. Fr Antony Grant CR (Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield)
Title to be confirmed

9 June. Fr Antony Lester O.Carm. (Roman Catholic Chaplain to the University of York)
‘Carmelite Spirituality’

Officers, 2012-2013

Chairman: Dr Sally Guthrie

Deputy Chairman: Professor Claire Cross

Secretary and Lay Chaplain: Kingsley G. Boulton

Treasurer: Joyce Dixon