Events

Many social enterprises are motivated by faith-based agents. The forum explores the relationship between religious beliefs and social enterprise.  Participants:  Dr Michael Hodson is a PhD economist and was formerly senior economist at the UK Government’s Radio Telecommunications Agency and also headed up the government’s business enterprise programme reform. Runs his own firm and worked as…

Speakers:  Prof Paul Williams (Executive Director, Regent College Marketplace Institute) Paul Williams trained as an economist and worked in economic consulting for several years before undertaking theological training at Regent. He returned to the marketplace, working as an economic advisor for major international corporations and government agencies. He served as Chief Economist and Head of…

13 January 2014 | 9:30am – 5:30pm14 January 2014 | 9:30am – 5pm Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public Law, the Faith and Global Engagement initiative, and Bridging Gaps This interfaith conference will explore the relationship between spiritual ethos and power in a number of world religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. In particular, the conference…

Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public Law, the Faith and Global Engagement initiative, and Bridging Gaps This interfaith dialogue will explore the relationship between spiritual ethos and power in a number of world religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. In particular, the forum will address how religious engagement with political, legal and economic issues…

According to legend, Thamus, the King of the Egyptian pantheon, criticised the god, Theuth, for his invention of writing. Far from being a positive development in human history, Thamus viewed it as a dangerous new technology that would lead to the impoverishment of memory and consciousness. The God of the Bible appears to have had…

Hope shapes what we think of the future and our purpose in life.  Yet in Hong Kong, despite its insatiable energy, do the high walls of the city block out the light of hope?   Hope seems to be a problem – a broken promise that is never satisfied.  Is hope like a fairy tale, a…

The Chung Brothers is an award-winning musical duo formed by brothers Henry and Roger Chung in Hong Kong. As a blues harmonica player in the United States, Henry was named “Top Jazz/Blues Artists” by Washington Post, while Roger is a multiple award-winning vocalist. Together, they compose and produce songs that have had a huge influence…

The Still Point is a collaboration between Faith and Global Engagement and International Arts Movement (Hong Kong Chapter). It is a three-week line-up of exhibitions, concerts, performances and talks engaging art, faith and humanity. The festival consists of a touring presentation of an artistic collaboration entitled the QU4RTETS, as well as works and performances by artists in Hong…

Presenting Ray Chan’s ceramic works, Gabriel Leung’s mixed-media installations, and Stephen Wong’s series of paintings, “At the Still Point of the Turning World” is a depiction and materialisation of the artists’ personal means and journeys of searching for the “still point” – a constant ritual, respite, or an oblique resolution in the face of chaos, crisis, or uncertainties…

The QU4RTETS presents four sets of paintings by Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman, as part of an ongoing artistic collaboration in word, image and music, with composer Christopher Theofanidis and theologian Jeremy Begbie inspired by T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.  As a rare instance of painting and poetry productively informing one another, the QU4RTETS paintings…