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SUMMARY:Dunluce Parish Art and Photography Exhitibition
DESCRIPTION:Dunluce Parish’s annual art exhibition will take place in the Parish Centre in Priestland Road\, Bushmills\, from Friday May 3 to Monday May 6. \nNow in its 15th year\, the event has gone from strength to strength\, attracting artists and photographers from across Northern Ireland. \n“We are excited that we have more than 250 works to display this year\, with many of our favourite artists returning and quite a few new names joining us for the first time ” said coordinator Aileen Gault.   \nThe exhibition will showcase works by 68 talented artists and photographers from across Northern Ireland. Each piece is for sale\, at a range of prices with all commission on sales going to charity. Over the years\, the exhibition has raised many thousands of pounds for charity and this year proceeds will go to the Bishops’ Appeal Fund\, the Church of Ireland’s World Aid and Development Programme. \nThe exhibition will be opened on May 3 by Ross Wilson\, one of Ireland’s leading artists and sculptors\, with existing links to Bushmills. His collaboration with young people in the village led to the unveiling in 2004 of the ‘Alphabet Angel’ sculpture\, which celebrates the Ulster-Scots language. \nWith so many artworks on display\, there is sure to be something to appeal to everyone – and after viewing the art\, visitors are invited to the ‘Drawing Room’ café where they are welcome to relax and catch up with friends over tea\, coffee and homemade treats. There is also the opportunity to win a painting by a local artist in the raffle to be held on the final day. 
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/dunluce-parish-art-and-photography-exhitibition/
LOCATION:Dunluce Parish Centre\,  Priestland Road\, Bushmills\, BT57 8QP\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Aileen Gault":MAILTO:dunluceparishart@outlook.com
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SUMMARY:Yarns from the Bible
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URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/yarns-from-the-bible/
LOCATION:St Catherines\, Killead\, Killead\, Crumlin\, BT29 4EL
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ORGANIZER;CN="St Catherine's Parish Church%2C Killead":MAILTO:killeadparishevents@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Safeguarding Trust training - Carrickfergus
DESCRIPTION:Safeguarding Trust training session for clergy\, staff and volunteers who have not undergone safeguarding training in the last three years. \n\n8 May 2024 – St Nicholas’\, Carrickfergus\, at 7pm – Rev Chris St John\n\nTo register\, please email David McGrory\, Connor Safeguarding Trust Compliance Officer\, at davidmcgrory@connordiocese.org.
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/safeguarding-trust-training-carrickfergus/
LOCATION:St Nicholas\, Carrickfergus\, Lancasterian Street\, Carrickfergus\, BT38 7AB
ORGANIZER;CN="David McGrory":MAILTO:davidmcgrory@connordiocese.org
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SUMMARY:Church of Ireland General Synod
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 General Synod of the Church of Ireland will will be held in the Armagh City Hotel\, Armagh from Friday\, 10th May\, to Saturday\, 11th May 2024\, with Day 3 and 4 taking place remotely on the evening of Tuesday 14th May and the evening of Thursday 16th May (if required). \nFor further information\, visit the General Synod website.
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/church-of-ireland-general-synod-5/
LOCATION:Armagh City Hotel\, 2 Friary Road\, Armagh\, BT60 4FR 
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SUMMARY:Safeguarding Trust training - Carrickfergus
DESCRIPTION:Safeguarding Trust training session for clergy\, staff and volunteers who have not undergone safeguarding training in the last three years. \n\n21 May 2024 – Holy Trinity\, Carrickfergus\, at 7pm – Rev Dr Alan McCann\n\nTo register\, please email David McGrory\, Connor Safeguarding Trust Compliance Officer\, at davidmcgrory@connordiocese.org.
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/safeguarding-trust-training-carrickfergus-2/
LOCATION:Holy Trinity Woodburn\, 31 Prospect Road\, Carrickfergus\, BT38
ORGANIZER;CN="David McGrory":MAILTO:davidmcgrory@connordiocese.org
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SUMMARY:Crosslinks’ Regional Meeting in Connor Diocese
DESCRIPTION:Crosslinks mission society invites you and your church to a Regional Meeting in Connor Diocese on Wednesday May 22 at 7.30pm in St Jude’s Parish Hall\, Muckamore. \nThis will be a great opportunity to hear how Crosslinks mission partners have been sharing the gospel all around the world and how churches here have been supporting them. \nDuring the evening there will be an interview with Josh Hooker\, who was Acting Principal of Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary before he established a Preaching Academy and Bible courses for lay people in Namibia. There will also be news from Gerald & Louise Mwangi\, who are training youth workers in the Anglican Church of Kenya. \nCome and discover opportunities for your church to get involved in short-term mission in Europe\, Asia and Africa as well as camps in Ireland\, France and Hungary. \nRSVP by emailing: vgibson@crosslinks.org
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/crosslinks-regional-meeting-in-connor-diocese/
LOCATION:St Jude’s\, Muckamore\, Oldstone Rd\, Muckamore\, Antrim\, BT41 4SP\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Crosslinks Ireland":MAILTO:ireland@crosslinks.org
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SUMMARY:Church of Ireland Inter-Faith Conference 2024
DESCRIPTION:You are invited warmly to join us for this day conference and networking event\, highlighting stories of interfaith and intercultural friendship and collaboration\, and encouraging faith communities to engage with the Places of Sanctuary Ireland network. We hope that you will be encouraged and inspired through this event. This day conference is a collaboration between the Church of Ireland Interfaith Working Group and the Sanctuary in Faith Stream of Places of Sanctuary Ireland. \n \nKeynote speaker: The Rev Bonnie Evans-Hills \nBonnie Evans-Hills is a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and has considerable experience in inter-religious dialogue\, working with organisations such as the EU Commission on Foreign Affairs & Security\, the World Council of Churches\, Churches Together in Britain & Ireland\, the Anglican Communion\, and the Anglican Mission organisation USPG (United Society for Partners in the Gospel). Bonnie has been involved in contributing to the UN Office for the Prevention of Genocide’s Global Plan of Action for Religious Leaders & Actors. Alongside several other publications\, Bonnie is co-author of the book ‘Engaging Islam from a Christian Perspective\,’ published by Peter Lang. She was recently awarded the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation by the Archbishop of Canterbury. \nSharing ‘Good News’: Case studies of local projects in action \n\n’Connect’ Project\, Centenary Methodist Church\, Dublin\nSanctuary Ambassadors\n\nRaising Awareness: Niamh McDonald\, Director\, Hope and Courage Collective \nTea/coffee available from 10.00-10.30 AM\, with programme beginning at 11am sharp. The programme will conclude at 4pm. Lunch is included\, prepared by ‘Cooking for Freedom’\, a group of residents from direct provision centres around Dublin\, who gather for cooking and conversation in community kitchen spaces\, including in Wesley House. \nThis event is free of charge\, but places are limited! Booking deadline is Friday\, 17 May.   \nIf you find that your availability changes after booking your place\, we kindly request that you cancel your booking so that your space can be made available to someone else.  \nBook here \n 
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/church-of-ireland-inter-faith-conference-2024/
LOCATION:Wesley House\, Leeson Park\, Ranelagh\, Dublin\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Rev Suzanne Cousins":MAILTO:aughaval@tuam.anglican.org
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SUMMARY:Church of Ireland Annual Theological Lecture at Queen’s
DESCRIPTION:‘Artificial Intelligence: Religious Friend or Foe?’ \n Professor Stephen Williams will deliver the 66th Church of Ireland Annual Theological Lecture at Queen’s on Monday May 27 at 6pm. \nThe lecture\, sponsored by the Board of Education (Northern Ireland)\, will be held in the Great Hall at Queen’s and is entitled: ‘Artificial Intelligence: Religious Friend or Foe?’ \nArtificial intelligence is changing how we interact with everything\, from education to healthcare\, food\, travel and religion. Robot priests can recite prayers\, deliver sermons\, and even attempt to comfort those experiencing a spiritual crisis.  Doctors are using AI more regularly for diagnostics and provision of care. \nChristians are left with many questions about the ethics of this cutting-edge technology. How can those who claim to have a personal relationship with the Creator of the Universe engage with or use AI? Can AI replace human or divine creativity? What does it mean to be a human? \nProfessor Stephen Williams will explore some of these questions in this year’s Annual Theological Lecture. Professor Williams writes: “The title is provocative: Artificial Intelligence means more than one thing; there are different religious traditions; and ‘friend or foe’ may be false alternatives. \n“Admitting the complexity of the issues\, the lecture sets out the challenge of AI to our understanding of what it is to be human\, highlighting its critical nature. It ranges from discussion of the nature of the brain to Western culture and to the significance of the Church in an attempt to answer the question posed in the title.” \nStephen N Williams is a theologian\, author and lecturer who\, after retiring from a teaching career\, was appointed Honorary Professor of Theology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2017. \nAttendees will also have a chance to put their questions directly to Professor Williams in a Q&A session immediately following the lecture. \nThe Rev Danielle McCullagh\, Church of Ireland and Methodist Chaplain to Queen’s University\, said: “I am delighted that Professor Williams has accepted my invitation to give this lecture. He is one of the most significant Christian contributors to the conversation on AI on these islands and will no doubt share with us some helpful insights and strong theological framework to help our thinking on this topic.” \nThe public lecture will take place in the Great Hall\, Lanyon Building\, Queen’s University Belfast. Refreshments will be served from 5.30pm. \nMore information and tickets can be accessed at: www.thehubbelfast.org/annuallecture  \nStephen Williams gained his Master of Arts Degree in Modern History at the University of Oxford and his Master of Arts Degree in Theology from the University of Cambridge. After a period as Henry Fellow in Yale University\, he received his PhD through the Department of Religious Studies of the university in 1981. \nHe has mostly spent his professional life in Presbyterian seminaries in the United Kingdom\, firstly as Professor of Theology in the United Theological College\, Aberystwyth (from 1980 to 1991)\, and then as Professor of Systematic Theology in Union Theological College in Belfast (from 1994 to 2017). He was appointed Honorary Professor of Theology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2017 and elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) in 2018. \nAlthough his main professional areas are theology and intellectual history\, he has an interest in the field of bioethics. During 2018\, he held a Research Fellowship at the Henry Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School researching the connection between a Christian understanding of creation and philosophies undergirding developments in artificial intelligence.
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/church-of-ireland-annual-theological-lecture-at-queens/
LOCATION:Queen’s University Great Hall\, University Road\, Belfast\, BT7 1NN
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SUMMARY:Parish Panel Safeguarding Training
DESCRIPTION:A Parish Panel Safeguarding training session has been arranged for the Connor Diocese. This training is for all new Parish Panel members and those who have not undergone any Panel training in the last three years. \nThis training will be delivered by Gillian Taylor\, Safeguarding Officer (NI) on: \nTuesday May 28 \nHoly Trinity Church Woodburn\, Prospect Road\, Carrickfergus\, BT38 8QB \n7pm – 9.30 pm \nPlaces for this training are limited. To book your place\, please email David McGrory at davidmcgrory@connordiocese.org \nIf you are unable to attend or do not secure a place\, it is hoped to run another training session in the autumn.
URL:https://connor.anglican.org/event/parish-panel-safeguarding-training/
LOCATION:Holy Trinity Woodburn\, 31 Prospect Road\, Carrickfergus\, BT38
ORGANIZER;CN="David McGrory":MAILTO:davidmcgrory@connordiocese.org
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