This year academic year, two NEW day-conferences for Common Awards students are being hosted by Common Awards. All Common Awards students are welcome to join.

Jesus, the Spirit, and the Hope of the World: A Day with N.T. Wright

26 April 2024 at St Paul’s Cathedral, London

This FREE* day conference will be a study-day at St Paul’s Cathedral with N.T. Wright, world-renowned New Testament scholar, best-selling author, and former Bishop of Durham. Over the course of multiple sessions, he will guide students and answer questions on a variety of related topics, including: views of salvation and the eschaton; God’s creation and the new creation; apocalyptic themes in the New Testament; and how these matters inform God’s calling on the Church, in light of the Gospel. Students will also have the opportunity to see the cathedral and to meet students from other TEIs.

The Speaker:

Rt Rev’t Prof N.T. Wright is Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England (2003-2010), and was formerly Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews.

*Travel expenses not included.

For more information, please visit the Common Awards website Events for Students page. Students may also sign up to our mailing list here to receive a reminder when bookings are open.

‘Mental Health in Ministry: The Theology and Psychology of Depression and Hearing Voices’

9 July 2024 at Durham Cathedral, Durham

Students will come away from this FREE* day-conference with a deeper understanding of how to wisely and faithfully engage with matters of mental health. This conference focuses on two areas that have a rich tradition of study both in psychology and in the long history of Christian practice: hearing voices and depression. Our speakers will address, in each case, contemporary clinical understandings of these two experiences, their various theological interpretations, and also speak to the benefits and short- comings of each. Students will also have the opportunity to see the cathedral, the grounds of Durham University, and to meet students from other TEIs.

Speakers will include:

Rev’d Prof. Chris Cook, former Director of the Centre for Spirituality, Theology & Health (retired in 2022), qualified doctor, former Professor of Psychology, and ordained in the Church of England.

Dr Tasia Scrutton, Associate Professor in the School Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at Leeds University and author of Christianity and Depression.

*Travel expenses not included.

For more information, please visit the Common Awards website Events for Students page. Students may also sign up to our mailing list here to receive a reminder when bookings are open.