Prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude — these four, cardinal virtues have been at the centre of pagan and Christian forms of virtue ethics. How do we exercise them when using money, or is money always something corrupting, leading us inevitably to the vice of avarice instead of virtue? How do we use money in a way that serves our flourishing?

Faith, hope, and love will abide, according to St. Paul, when all else passes away, and the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13). 'If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.' (1 Cor 13:3). And yet, St. Paul often uses the language of profit, gain, and loss (Phil 3:7-9), the language of accounting, when speaking of the supreme value of knowing Christ in comparison to everything else. Does the new orientation given to us by faith, hope, and love offer us a better…

A Study Day led by Russell Jefford, providing an introduction to the origin of the Nicene Creed and the formation of the Doctrine of the Trinity to help those unfamiliar with the topic to prepare for the House’s Conference Receiving Nicaea on 12th and 13th November. ‘Begotten not made, of one being with the Father’ is a crucial but perplexing phrase in the Nicene Creed. What does it mean, why was it so important (and controversial) and how did we end up with the doctrine of the Trinity? We will explore these questions with the help of some key sour…

The public lecture, part of the House's Receiving Nicaea Conference, will set Nicaea in its historical context, before focusing on the reception of the Council and Creed in subsequent centuries, and especially in the Anglican tradition. It will argue that the legacy of Nicaea has profound relevance to the Church’s life today, both as a rich statement of orthodoxy, and as a worked example of how continuity with the apostolic faith is expressed amid challenge and change.

The first- or second-century letter from Christ-followers in Rome to the church in Corinth, conventionally called 1 Clement, provides a fascinating reference to the practice of voluntary enslavement among early Christians. In the context of an appeal for schismatics among the Corinthians to be willing to depart in order to end an ecclesiastical conflict in Corinth (54.1-4), the Roman authors of 1 Clement allude to practices of self-imprisonment and voluntary slavery among Christ-followers: ‘We know that many among us have had themselves imprisoned, so that they might ransom others. Many have sold themselves into slavery, and with the price received…

Second Lieutenant Arthur van Grondelle recently qualified for the Parachute Regiment in the British Army by passing through 'P Company,' a gruelling training programme. Out of 80 men, only 15 made it in the end. Mr. van Grondelle will speak about what it was like to be a part of 'P Company' and to be a platoon commander in his early twenties. He will speak about the role that his Christian faith played in sustaining him through his training.

He will speak alongside Revd Dr. Mark Bezerra Speeks who has served as an Army Chaplain since 2010 and previously served…