The Disappeared:
attending to the unseen
You are very welcome to come and hear the views of our preachers within the beautiful setting of Evensong on Sundays at 6.30pm.
This term’s sermon series has been inspired by the piece of music which the Choir will sing on July 2nd, one of James MacMillan’s ‘Cantos Sagrados’. In these MacMillan is responding to the horrors of political oppression in Latin America, especially ‘the Disappeared’ in Argentina.
The urban poor
Preacher: The Rev’d Andrew Hammond
Chaplain, St John's College
For the Chaplain's own page click here.
Refugees
Preacher: Dr Sophie Cartwright
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
Sophie Cartwright is a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, and the policy officer at the Jesuit Refugee Service UK where she conducts research relating to immigration detention, forced migration, and the asylum system. She has previous experience of supporting people through the asylum system.
The hidden things of the mind
Preacher: The Rev’d Dr Deborah Ford
Associate Priest, St Andrew's Church,
Cherry Hinton; psychotherapist
Deborah has always combined chaplaincy with practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and (increasingly) as a pastoral supervisor. She is am also one of the co-founders of a local charity ('Lyn's House') encouraging friendships between those with and without learning disabilities.
She draws on the wisdom from the different disciplines, traditions and life experience which have shaped her to help others find meaning, purpose and hope in whatever is going on for them.
Simone Weil: affliction, love and attention
Preacher: Professor Anna Rowlands
St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social
Thought and Practice, University of Durham
Professor Anna Rowlands is the holder of the St Hilda Chair in Catholic Social Thought and Practice. She is a political theologian who works at the interface of political and social theory and Christian theology. Her original training was in the social and political sciences, followed by postgraduate degrees in theology. She has worked for two decades on the political philosophy of Gillian Rose, with additional interests in Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. These interests coincided with research over the last 15 years in two other areas: the study of forced migration and the ethics of migration, and the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching. She has published in all these areas. Her key publications include: Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology, edited with Elizabeth Phillips and Amy Daughton (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration (forthcoming 2024) edited with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. She is currently working on a new book on Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Gillian Rose.
The taken for granted
Disabled people
Preacher: The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Brinton
Former President and
Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Baroness Brinton is a Liberal Democrat Peer in the House of Lords, with a special interest in education, skills and learning. She began her career in the mid 1970s as a floor manager at the BBC, later working as a venture capitalist investing in high-tech companies. Shortly after taking her seat in the Lords in 2011, Sal Brinton left her post as Director of the Association of the Universities in the East of England, having had a twenty-year career working and serving in the education sector. She has been President and Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
'The cry of the earth, the cry of the poor'
Preacher: Dr Robert Hawkins
Westcott House
Rob read History of Art at King's College Cambridge, and stayed on for an MPhil and PhD. His doctoral research investigated questions of perspective and pictorial space in fifteenth-century Northern European sculpture, incorporating the thought of medieval perspectivist theologians.
Alongside the PhD he explored a vocation to ordained ministry, working as a chaplain at Addenbrookes Hospital and later spending a year as Parish Assistant in Fulbourn and the Wilbrahams. He then trained at Westcott House, reading the BA in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion at Jesus College, Cambridge. He is about to begin a curacy at St James', Wulfstan Way, Cambridge.
Mexico's Mothers: The Search for their Loved Ones
Preacher: Fr Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez SJ
University College London;
human rights specialist
Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez is a Jesuit priest from Mexico. After receiving professional legal training before joining the Society of Jesus, Fr Luis worked as a lawyer at the "Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez" Human Rights Centre in Mexico City from 2019 to 2020. His work exposed him to the plight of thousands of mothers who had lost their children to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions committed by the Mexican military and organised crime. Now a PhD student at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, Fr Luis investigates these grave human rights violations, which have claimed more than 100,000 victims in Mexico, and the culture of impunity surrounding them. Fr. Luis has extensive experience working in the field of human rights in Latin America.
People of colour
Preacher: Chine McDonald
Author of ‘God is not a white man’;
Director of Theos
Chine McDonald is Director of Theos - the religion and society think tank. She was previously Head of Community Fundraising and Public Engagement at Christian Aid. She has nearly 20 years' experience in journalism, media and communications across faith, media and international development organisations. She is the author of God is not a white man: and other revelations (Hodder & Stoughton, May 2021) and Am I Beautiful? (Authentic, 2013). Chine regularly contributes to programme slots such as the BBC’s Thought for the Day on Radio 4’s Today programme, Prayer for the Day and The Daily Service. Chine is vice-chair of Greenbelt Festival and a trustee of Christian Aid. She studied Theology and Religious Studies at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
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