The Annunciation: Text & Image
An illustrated lecture
The Rev’d Tom Devonshire-Jones
Monday March 29th 7:00 p.m.
     Artists across the centuries have responded to St. Luke’s text in a striking variety of ways, and they all lead viewers to reflection and prayer. This illustrated lecture will highlight significant artistic renderings of the Annunciation and offer spiritual, theological and art-historical insights into them.
     The Rev’d Tom Devonshire-Jones, Founding Director of ACE (Art & Christianity Enquiry, London) has had a life-long passion for the visual arts. Amid wide pastoral experience, most recently as Vicar of St. Mark’s, Regent Park in London, Tom has sought to foster a dynamic working relationship between artists and churches. In 1991 he spearheaded the founding of an organization called ACE (Art & Christianity Enquiry). Now an international organization, ACE publishes a bulletin, holds international conferences, and awards grants and prizes to churches and artists working in fruitful collaboration. Behind all these efforts is an abiding belief in the artistic consequences of the Christian affirmation of the ‘Word made flesh’.
Place: The Episcopal Actors’ Guild Hall      Single Lecture: $10.00
(concession: students and retired persons)

Celebrating Michael Ramsey (1904-1988)
A lecture series Hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury

Living Through Dying: Suffering & Sanctification in the
Theology of Michael Ramsey
Friday, April 23rd 8:00 p.m.
      2004 is the centenary of the birth of the greatest Archbishop of Canterbury of the twentieth century. Beginning on the sixteenth anniversary of his death (April 23rd 1988) our GodTalk lectures will explore aspects of Archbishop Ramsey’s legacy.
     The Rev’d Douglas Dales, author of Glory.The Spiritual Theology of Michael Ramsey, Head of Religious Studies, Marlborough College, England, first met Michael Ramsey when a student at theological college. Since that first inspirational encounter Douglas Dales has studied deeply the writings and thought of the Hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury. With an enviable appreciation for English church history, especially the Anglo-Saxon period, spirituality, and theology, Douglas Dales is uniquely qualified to interpret the witness of Michael Ramsey. His book on Michael Ramsey’s ‘spiritual theology’, Glory, is already in its second printing. His lecture will take up a key theme in Ramsey’s teaching, preaching and writing.
This lecture will include a book-signing.   Place: The Church

Catholic & Anglican: The Christian in the World
Saturday, April 24th 10:30 a.m.
The Rev’d Dr. Charles Miller, Rector of the Church of the Transfiguration, first met Michael Ramsey in New York City in 1972. Later he sat at Ramsey’s feet as a theological student at Nashotah House where Archbishop Ramsey lectured in his retirement. Dr. Miller will explore how Ramsey’s view of Anglicanism and Catholicity shaped his view of the relationship between Christianity and the emerging ‘secular’ world in which we live.
Place: The Parish House Common Room

Michael Ramsey: The Man
Tuesday, April 27th 7:30 p.m.
    Canon A.M. Allchin, former Canon Residentiary of Canterbury Cathedral, England, has been one of the most creative voices in Anglican theology over many decades. Canon Allchin first met Michael Ramsey in the 1950s as a student, and watched his extraordinary rise to prominence in global Anglicanism. Fr. Allchin will share his long perspective on personalities and events within our church to assess Michael Ramsey the man—pastor, spiritual guide, scholar, ecumenist, Archbishop, and shaper of contemporary Anglicanism.
Place: The Episcopal Actors’ Guild Hall

Single Lecture: $10.00 (concession: students & retired persons). Three Lecture series: $25.00

The Church of the Transfiguration
"The Little Church Around the Corner"
One East 29th Street, NYC
(between Fifth & Madison Avenues)

Subways: 1/9, N/R/W, or 6 to 28th Street
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M5, M6, M7