Autumn Lecture Series 2024: Music, Poetry and Revelation
(Monday 9th September 2024)
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Lucy Winkett is a writer, broadcaster and Rector of St James’s Church Piccadilly. Formerly a professional musician, and Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, her publications include Our Sound is our Wound, God’s Song and Music’s Meaning and Reading the Bible with your Feet. As Chaplain to the Royal Academy of Arts, she is committed to working with artists, musicians, scientists and social activists to enable the church to place its imagination in the service of justice, as patron, collaborator and co-conspirator in making the world a more just and beautiful place.
Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet with close links to Greece, India, music and wildlife conservation. Her poetry includes Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth, on harmony and the Middle East, and We Are All from Somewhere Else, on animal and human migration. Her forthcoming collection Girl, opening with the Mysteries of Mary, explores beliefs woven around girlhood: ideas of girl as the human soul, as creative energy, and the sacred in wild nature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Poetry Emerita at King’s College London.
Claire Gilbert is a theologian by background, focusing on the spiritual dimension of medical and environmental ethics in her writing and lecturing. Claire was Research Fellow at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College, London, then National Policy Adviser to the Church of England on medical ethics and environmental ethics. She founded a charity, the Ethics Academy, she co-founded St Paul’s Institute for ethics in finance and business. She is Founder Director of Westminster Abbey Institute for Ethics in Public Life. Claire is now a full-time author, public speaker, retreat leader, consultant and mentor. She is author of the bestselling I Julian: The fictional autobiography of Julian of Norwich and Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Letters on Hope, Death and Learning to Live.
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