Chaplaincy Conference

Saturday 27th February 2010, 9.30am to 5pm

Bridge-Building: Chaplains in Education

Prof. John Sullivan, Liverpool Hope University

John Sullivan is Professor of Christian Education at Liverpool Hope University, where he has been working since March 2002.

John will address some of the issues raised in this work on February 27th.

Dancing on the Edge takes as a starting point the investigation and report commissioned by the Catholic Conference of Chaplains in Higher Education in England and Wales.

The book offers a realistic assessment of many of the challenges facing chaplains in Higher Education, as well as evidencing a committed engagement and sense of hope. Chaplains will find here mapped out crucial features of their work environment. Senior managers in Higher Education will find themselves surprised, challenged and comforted in different proportions as they see their institutions described from the chaplains’ perspective. Members and office-holders in the Church, too, should experience both discomfort and encouragement as they ponder the Report and the essays contained in this book.

"These essays not only spur us on to think again about the role of the chaplaincy but may even cause us to reconsider the role of modern universities, especially for those among us who treasure their Christian foundations."
from the Preface by Professor Gerald Pillay, Vice-Chancellor & Rector, Liverpool Hope University

Author of Catholic Schools in Contention (Veritas, 2000), of Catholic Education: Distinctive and Inclusive (Kluwer [now Springer] Academic Press, 2001), co-editor and contributor to The Idea of a Christian University (Paternoster, 2005), and co-editor and contributor to Dancing on the Edge: Chaplaincy, Church & Higher Education (Matthew James, 2007), John has had more than 65 chapters and articles published (in the UK, USA, Europe and Australia) on aspects of religion and education.

His latest book is Communicating Faith (The Catholic University of America Press, 2010).

 

The conference will consider issues facing Chaplains in 2nd and 3rd level educational contexts.

Date: February 27th 2010.
Time: 9:30am to 5pm.
Location: MDI Clonliff e Road, Dublin 3.

Parking is free.
Canteen facilities will be available.