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As we enter December we look forward to our annual conference, to be held in the

Hayes, Swanwick in Derbyshire from January 14 - 16 in 2022. It will be wonderful

to meet together at the conference after so long. We have done everything

possible to make the conference centre a safe place. All our rooms will be ‘en-

suite’ this time and masks will be provided. We have arranged for excellent

speakers and seminar leaders to join us in facing the challenge of ‘Transcending

Divisions in a world of diversity.’

Diversity can be a great gift of course. The late Lord Sachs wrote about ‘the gift of

difference. In our conference we hope to affirm the rich diversity of our world and

its people and to look at ways forward for enhancing this richness. But we must

also seek to tackle disagreements and blockages which lead to lack of trust and

to suffering and even death.

As we begin to look beyond COP26 the great need to transcend divisions in our

world is very clear. Unless we pull together as the ‘people of the planet’, sharing

gifts and meeting needs, the planet itself will be threatened. Our common home

will become unliveable in for us all.

Our speakers at the conference are well equipped to help us in moving forward.

Anthony Reddie is a leading scholar in black theology. Hi s home base is

Birmingham University and he travels and speaks all over the country. He will be

looking at cultural divisions in our society.

John Perumbalathis our chairman. He is Bishop of Bradwell and a theologian

who came to us originally from South India. He will examine religious divisions.

Ann Pettifor is an economist who is Director of policy research in

Macroeconomics. She is well known for her work towards Jubilee 2000.

Andrew Wingate will lead a seminar on interfaith issues. John Sandeford - Smith

will explore issues of health in our world today and Ellen Teague will explore the

climate crisis. Ellen is present at the COP 26 in Glasgow. Sophia Jones will

look at our multi-cultural world and Jenny Brown of Christian Aid will look at how

we may work together on directly political issues.

Do join us.

There are also buttons linking to the two newest book we have published;

Timothy Biles's "It's the Journey" reflecting his experiences of life in lands

dominated by the Moslems of Pakistan, the Hindus of India, the Buddhists

of Sri Lanka and the Jews of Israel-Palestine; Brian Macdonald-Milne's

"Seeing Peace in the Pacific", the story of conflict and Christianity in the

Central Solomon Islands.

The flyer for this year's Christmas cards is available via the button below the picture.

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Also flyers for recently published books from Christians Aware "Just

Food: Food and Farming for a Sustainable Future", and "Rosa" by Susi

Bechhofer, can be viewed via the button below.

Please continue to send post to: Christians Aware

2 Saxby Street, Leicester LE2 0ND. We have a forwarding

arrangement to our new (temporary) office.

tel 07538108837