The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Autumn Term 2014

 Meeting at 8.00 pm in the Crypt Room, Hampstead Parish Church
on the 4 Wednesday evenings in October and November

October 1, 8, 15, 22, and November 5, 12, 19, 26

£10 per term to cover the costs

Time to get ready by reading our first book:                       
Jonathan Sacks : The Great Partnership. God, Science and the Search for Meaning’.  Published by Hodder   £6.27 with free delivery  from  www.wordery.com

An extract from the introduction:
“In the past the danger – and it was a real danger – was a godless society.  That led to four terrifying experiments in history, the French Revolution, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and China.  Today the danger is of radical religiosity combined with an apocalyptic political agenda, able through terror and asymmetric warfare to destabilise whole nations and regions.  I fear that as much as I fear secular totalitarianisms.  All religious moderates of all faiths would agree.  This is one fight believers and non-believers should be fighting together.

I want in this book to argue that we need both religion and science, that they are compatible, and more than compatible.  They are the two essential perspectives that allow us to see the universe in its three-dimensional depth.  The creative tension between the two is what keeps us sane, grounded in physical reality, without losing our spiritual sensibility.  It keeps us human and humane.”

I look forward to seeing you on the 1st October!