Free Public Lecture
‘Refugee integration and the arts of hospitality’
Professor Alison Phipps
University of Glasgow
Tuesday 13 August 2019, 7.30pm
Mornington Methodist Church, Corner of Galloway and Whitby Streets, Mornington, Dunedin
Please join us for the fourth talk of the 2019 De Carle Distinguished Lecture Series, co-hosted with Mornington Methodist Church and the Dunedin Interfaith Council.
This talk will reflect on the role played by faith communities in the welcome of refugees to Europe, and especially to Scotland over the past 10 years. It will share stories from individual countries but also from the City of Glasgow, known for its campaigning offer of hospitality and protection, and from personal hosting. It will also consider the reluctance of congregations and communities to act until a point of crisis had been reached and the compatibility of faith-based teachings, prayer and obedience to teachings with the practical realities of societies in the grip of fear. Using poetry, liturgy and story the talk will take the form of a journey out into the public square and back into the recesses of the spirit.
