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 2011

CHILDREN AT RISK

16 October. Gill Martin (Psychotherapist/Community Worker)
‘Refugee Children: Their Needs in the UK’

30 October. Dr Margaret Bell (University of York)
‘Safeguarding and Listening to Children’

13 November. MEETING CANCELLED

20 November. Dr Anne-Marie Childs (Leeds General Infirmary)br> ’Reflections of a Paediatric Neurologist’

Spring Term 2012

PIOUS MEMORIES AND DEFINING REDEMPTION – VOICES OF THE ARCHBISHOPS IN THE TWO WORLD WARS

The Revd Canon Jonathan Gough

5 February. 'World War I'

19 February. 'World War II'

WILLIAM TEMPLE LECTURE

4 March. Canon Ann Cryer (Lay Canon of Bradford Cathedral and former MP)
'Religion and Politics - Oil and Water?'

Summer Term 2012

LITERATURE

6 May. Professor Graham Parry (Emeritus Professor, University of York)
‘The Innovations of Lancelot Andrewes'

20 May. Professor Felicity Riddy (Emerita Professor, University of York)
‘A Fourteenth-Century Female Theologian: Julian of Norwich and her Revelation of Love’

3 June. Professor Hugh Haughton (University of York)
'Geoffrey Hill'

17 June. Dr Rodie Sudbery
‘God and the Devil and Stevie Smith’

Officers, 2011-2012

Chairman: Dr Sally Guthrie

Deputy Chairman: Professor Claire Cross

Secretary and Lay Chaplain: Kingsley G. Boulton

Treasurer: Joyce Dixon