Doing God Online ​- Open Lectures 2022

The Internet Gaze

Join us ONLINE for our second lecture in this series
14th November 2022
​Dr Eric Stoddart - St Andrews University

Dr Eric Stoddart

For the first few years of its public release people gazed at the internet. It was not long before the internet gazed back. Eric Stoddart will explore our everyday practices of gazing into the internet and open up questions around the ways in which it keeps us under surveillance. He will suggest that ours is fundamentally an anxious gaze because we realise (perhaps not sufficiently) that our values and how we present ourselves are being shaped by the internet that watches - it being a digital system that neither slumbers nor sleeps. This gazing internet aims to make better consumers, so, Eric will argue, thoughtful people need a sharper take on what such 'desire for other things' means in terms of their religious values. He will offer some pointers on how Christians might learn to handle the internet's gaze and themselves gaze into the internet knowingly and grace-fully.

Effective Communication on Social Media

A Christian Response to Toxic Conversations Online
​Dr Calida Chu

Dr Calida Chu

Dr Calida Chu (FRSA; FRAS) is a Hong Kongese theologian and Teaching Fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. She received her PhD in world Christianity at the University of Edinburgh in 2020. Her current research is on public theology and digital theology, especially on the theological implications of digital media in the post-pandemic world. She holds a Master of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary.

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2022 Annual General Meeting 26th May 2022

Agenda for Annual General Meeting - 26th May 2022 (also available online via Zoom, please sign up to our mailing list to recieve an invitation)  Get Zoom here ​https://zoom.us/download 

1. Chairman - the Rev. Dr. R. H. Allaway.
2. The Minutes of the previous AGM (a copy is available HERE)
3. Academic Grant Application
4. To approve the re-election of the:
   1. President (Sir Colin Humphreys),
   2. Vice-Presidents (Prof. Malcolm A. Jeeves, Prof. Kenneth Kitchen, Prof. Alan Millard, Prof. J. W. Montgomery),
   3. Honorary Treasurer (Rev John Buxton),
   4. Council (Rev. Bob Allaway, Rev. John Buxton, Dr Alan Kerry, Mrs Joanne Mead, Rev. Dr Sally Nelson, Prof Meric Srokosz (ex officio))
5. To approve the election of Rev. Dr David Instone-Brewer and Dr David E. Watkis as Council Members and Trustees for Faith & Thought. 
6. To approve the amendment of the Constitution to allow online and hybrid meetings (AGM)
7. The annual accounts, which are available on the website, will be presented by the Hon. Treasurer, Rev. John Buxton, for approval and to appoint auditors.
8. Plans for 2022-2023

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2022 AGM Minutes Available HERE