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Big Issues: Credit Unions
Jan Howieson of the Rainbow Saver Anglia Credit Union Ltd will tell us what Credit Unions are and how they work.
Find out more »Big Issues: Street Pastors
Garry McDermott tells us how Street Pastors support those distressed or vulnerable on a night out in Cambridge.
Find out more »Big Issues: Jesus, Movies and Rock’n’Roll
Our own Revd Simon Oliver takes us on a theological exploration of the popular arts.
Find out more »Big Issues: Since When Have Disasters Ever Been Natural?
Revd Dr Roger Abbott of the Faraday Institute will be coming to speak to us.
Find out more »Big Issues: Chaplaincy – Church without Walls?
With Revd Barbara Johnson, Service Chaplain to Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Find out more »Big Issues: Emmaus – the last 25 years
The return of our Big Issues series of evening talks. The Emmaus community in Waterbeach opened 25 years ago this year; come along and hear how it has grown, and others have opened in other areas, helping their Companions and us too.
Find out more »Big Issues: God and Biology
With Dr Ruth Bancewitz (Farady Institute, Cambridge) We have all been amazed when we have looked closely at a natural thing, be it a flower, pets face or the landscape around us. With Ruth we explore God and Biology: How curiosity leads to wonder, worship and the big questions.
Find out more »Big Issues: Leeches to Laser – Addenbrookes 250th Anniversary
with Nicky Newton, Community Fundraising Manager 2016 is a year of special anniversaries, and sees Addenbrookes celebrating its 250th! Nicky Newton will give us an insiders view of a hospital many of us have watched grow and transform from Leeches to Laser—maybe not many of us remember the leeches!
Find out more »Big Issues: Refugees, immigration and the EU
This week, we welcome Janet Farrell and Bazen Inquai , lawyers specialising in immigration and human rights, who will be speaking about one of the biggest and most tragic issues of today in their talk entitled ‘Refugees, immigration and the EU – an overview of the legal context’.
Find out more »Big Issues: Radical Carols
We end our pre-Christmas evenings this week when, in words and music, Nigel Uden, minister of St Columba’s URC Church in Downing Street, will lead us in an exploration of songs surrounding the biblical birth narratives, ‘Radical Carols’.
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