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Service
The congregation at the Memorial Service, held in St. George’s
West Church on Sunday 6th December 2009, included Lesslie and
Helen’s daughter, Margaret Beetham, and their son John,
one from Manchester and the other from London. Rev. Eileen Thompson
conducted the service and Canon Andrew Wingate from Leicester
preached. The full text of his
sermon is available here. It was
particularly gratifying to have Tamil friends from Emmanuel Christian
Fellowship from Glasgow sharing in leading the worship.
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Seminar
At the seminar, held in St. John's Episcopan Church on Saturday
12th December, Prof. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen gave two
scholarly lectures:
1. Newbigin’s View of Postmodernity
2. Missional Response to the Culture in Transition between Modernity
and Late Modernity
There were 3 respondents to the lectures: Eleanor Jackson, Mark
Laing and Brian Stanley and this was followed by a time of open
discussion from the floor.
The full text of Prof. Kärkkäinen's
lectures is reproduced here,
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Assessments
of L. Newbigin's Life & Work
Contributions
were received from:
Vinoth
Ramachandra (Sri Lanka)
Jürgen Schuster (Germany)
Carver T. Yu (China)
Elaine Storkey (England)
Ian Barns (Australia)
Simon Chan (Singapore)
Geoffrey Wainwright (United States)
Michael Paul Gallagher S.J. (Rome)
Murray Rae (New Zealand)
Wilbert Shenk (United States)
Brian McLaren (United States)
Mark Laing (Scotland/India)
Uwe Langsam (Germany)
Ian Packer (Australia)
Jannie Swart (South Africa)
Kang-San Tan (from Malaysia)
and are reproduced here
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