The Revd Dr Susan Durber, President of the World Council of Churches from Europe, a URC Minister and one of the Editorsd of the URC Prayer Handbook, speaks about Nicea. The First Council of Nicaea met 1700 years ago and was a council of Christian bishops convened in the city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325. This ecumenical council was the first of many efforts to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all Christendom. Attended by at least 200 bishops, its main accomplishments were the settlement of the Christological issue of the divine nature of God the Son and his relationship to God the Father, the construction of the first part of the Nicene Creed, the mandating of uniform observance of the date of Easter, and the promulgation of early canon law.

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With Miles, Steve, & Lindsey

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The Revd Ashraf Tannous (Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem) and human rights lawyer Zohar Francis speak about the Palestinian experience of the last two years in Gaza and also in the West Bank. What is a specifically Christian response to 76 years of political turmoil, conflict, war, ethnic cleansing, ever-expanding forms of apartheid, and now what will almost certainly be legally recognised as genocide?

Lawrence Heath-Moore moderates this in-person on online gathering hosted by the Luther King Theological College and organised by Commitment for Life, yourchurch, and Sabeel-Kairos, UK.

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The URC History Society hosted a seminar, Ministerial Life in the Turbulence of the 17th Century, given by Suzanne MacDonald, a Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. Suzanne has been teaching in the US since 2007, but she trained for ministry at Westminster College, Cambridge, and also taught at the college for a year. The lecture was introduced by the Revd Elaine Colechin.

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Meet the Steering Group as they explain the Church Life Review, their roles, and what they have been working on in preparation for the November General Assembly.

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