Going Public: Christian Engagement in the Secular World

Synopsis: How can we find quietness amidst the uncertainty we face in Hong Kong? How can meditation help our emotional health under the pressure of university life and lead to peace between people of different beliefs? Come and discover how you can practice a simple and powerful daily meditation for personal and organisational transformation. Speaker…

Michael Schluter has pioneered an international movement, called Relational Thinking, which proposes that organisations and public policy should have as their primary goal harmony across the different interest groups in society. As an economist professionally he recognises the importance of finance to the building of strong and sustainable society. Given the different worldviews which currently create tensions between Hong Kong and the Mainland and within the…

Synopsis Mathematics has revolutionized technology and is shaping the modern world in amazing ways, even shaping the way people think. Yet many people say “I’m not a math person” without realizing the ways they already think mathematically, and without seeing how such thinking is central to what it means to be a human being. Discover…

‘Only through time time is conquered’, writes T. S. Eliot famously in “Burnt Norton”, the first poem of the Four Quartets. Eliot’s long poem takes us through London’s alleyways and evocative rose–gardens, passing through summer trees and the figured leaf, asking uncertain and uneasy questions. Where are we, as human dancers, in all this history of…

Rapid advances in reproductive and genetic technology are transforming the way new human beings can be created, selected and modified. At the same time, powerful medical technology is able to keep elderly people alive in the face of devastating diseases and degenerative conditions. How can we respond to these complex ethical challenges from the perspective…