Calvary Evangelical Church, Brighton, UK

David Robertson, minister of St Peter's Free Church in Dundee, will talk on the relevance of Christianity today and open the discussion to the floor for questions and comments.

Whatever your beliefs or pre-conceptions, you are warmly invited to listen, to speak and even to persuade or be persuaded in a friendly, relaxed environment.

Wednesday 1 July, 7.30pm (refreshments from 7.15pm)

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David Robertson, author of The Dawkins Letters, asks the the question: “Is it really delusional to believe in God or is it more delusional to think that we can get along without him?”

Tuesday 30 June 2009, 7-8pm, at the Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton in association with Borders Bookstore, Brighton

There will be a Q & A about, and signing session for, The Dawkins Letters, a lively response to Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion.

As a service to the Brighton Pavilion constituents, Calvary Evangelical Church plans to host events with local politicians in the months leading up to the General Election. In this public event, we are delighted to provide the opportunity to understand better what Caroline’s views are on many of the weighty issues that influence the way we vote: family, education, the economy, immigration, the EU, the health service, international relations, climate change and the UK Parliament.

Come and broaden your perspective of British party politics and meet the real people behind the media image!

Monday 29 June, 7.30pm at Calvary Evangelical Church, Viaduct Road

Railways have always been about making connections - as have God's purposes.

On Saturday 21 March 2009 (2-4pm) there's an opportunity to discover the historic and present connections between:

• The Railway Mission
• Brighton Railway Mission (now Calvary Evangelical Church) and
• The Brighton and Hove City Mission

All too often contemporary art can seem like a closed club, with those who 'get it' waxing lyrical about unmade beds and animals in formaldehyde, while the rest of us look on bemused. This evening is intended to present some biblical building blocks that will help us develop a Christian understanding of contemporary art and culture. We will focus our discussion around the case studies of Damian Hirst, a secular artist whose work contains many religious themes, and Liviu Mocan, an internationally renowned Christian sculptor.

Chris Watkin did his PhD in contemporary French and post-modern philosophy. In October 2007 he took up a research fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, studying the 'turn to religion' in Continental thought.

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... we will still meet as planned, to watch and discuss the video of a talk by N. T. Wright, "Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense".

The planned talk was...

This talk will compare the biblical Trinitarian worldview with monism and dualism. It will take people out of their boxes and help them to understand how and why intelligent and lovely people have a very unbiblical worldview. Then it will help them see why only the biblical worldview supports and sustains our lives.

Ellis Potter, a native Californian now residing in Switzerland, is a former Buddhist monk who became a Christian under the influence and ministry of the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer. He worked for many years with Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland and was the pastor of the Basel Christian Fellowship for ten years. With his wife, Mary, he founded Eastern Europe Renewal (EER), an evangelical mission to Central and Eastern European countries. He now works as a Christian minister, counsellor and teacher. Click for more details about Ellis Potter.

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We have always told stories to make sense of the world. But in the postmodern world the story is all there is. Christians must help the Western world recover the big picture, the metanarrative.

Steve Ellacott PhD FIMA (Reader in Computational Mathematics, University of Brighton)

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