The Society for Ecumenical Studies has, in conjunction with The Tablet and Reform, arranged a webinar on Communion in the light of COVID-19, to be held on Thursday 16 July from 6–7.30pm.
This is the first in a series of three webinars on themes around the response of the Churches to the situation created by the current pandemic.
The speakers will be:
Revd Dr John Bradbury
Dr Bradbury is a United Reformed Church minister and incoming General Secretary of the URC. From 2007 to 2017 he taught Systematic Theology and Church History at Westminster College, Cambridge where he ultimately served as Vice-Principal. He has been heavily involved in ecumenism and is one of the three presidents of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe. He serves as co-chair of the URC-Roman Catholic dialogue, for which he has written a paper on Communion. More recently, he has written on Communion in the lockdown times.
Dr Sara Parvis
Dr Sara Parvis is Senior Lecturer in Early Church History at the University of Edinburgh, where she has taught students from a variety of ecclesiastical backgrounds, clerical and lay. She is a lifelong Catholic, and recently wrote for the Tablet from an experiential perspective on the presence and absence of communion during the lockdown.
Dr. Matthew Cheung Salisbury
Dr Salisbury, a member of the Faculty of Music in the University of Oxford is the national Liturgy and Worship Adviser to the Church of England.
The evening will be chaired by Rev Dr Elizabeth Welch, the Chair of the Society for Ecumenical Studies.
There is a suggested donation of £5 towards the costs of the webinar and bookings should be made via The Tablet at www.thetablet.co.uk/events
