In June I had the honour of delivering the annual Isaac Armitage Lecture at the Shore School, Sydney. My title was “Custodians of the Common Good: Christian Education in a Post-Christian World”. The video is now available: More information about the lecture can be found here.
There was a great sadness this morning at the conference that Michel Serres’ health has not permitted him to travel to Utrecht in person, but also a deep thankfulness and appreciation that, despite his failing health, he had taken the time to pre-record his address. The discussion that followed his paper (recorded at his house
Editions Excelsis have just published La foi chrétienne et les défis du monde contemporain (The Christian Faith and the Challenges of the Contemporary World), for which I had the privilege to write a 5000 word article on Christianity and relativism, moving through the bible, Augustine, Pascal, Derrida, debates in the French parliament and C. S. Lewis.