Our final City Lab session of this year will be with Rebecca McLaughlin, who join us to discuss her recent book: The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims (2021). This provocative book explores five current claims: "Black Lives Matter", “The Gay-Rights Movement Is the New Civil-Rights Movement”, "Women’s Rights Are Human Rights", "Transgender Women Are Women". By applying Scripture to each claim and examining it in the context of culture, Rebecca help us disentangle the ideas Christians can and must affirm and those we must not embrace.
Come join us for a thought-provoking evening with Rebecca on 1st December as we explore ways to talk with our neighbours in a loving and self-sacrificing way, demonstrating that Christianity is the original source and foundation for true diversity, equality, and life-transforming love.
🗓️ 1st December, 2022
⏰ 6pm - 8pm (dinner will be provided)
📍KCBC | Vernon Square London, England, WC1X 9EW
Rebecca is the author of several books, including Confronting Christianity: 12 hard questions for the world's largest religion, which was featured on the TED summer reading list and named "Book of the Year" by Christianity Today. Check out her website.
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Please note: this event is in-person, with a casual dinner served. Rebecca McLaughlin will join us via video call from the US. We believe that great things can happen when we gather around the table to meet and learn from another. So we strongly recommend you to join us in-person if you are located in London. If you are not based in London and would like to attend online, please send an email to hello@thelondonproject.co.uk.
The Secular Creed - Engaging Five Contemporary Claims
"In this house we believe that: Black Lives Matter, Love Is Love, Gay Rights Are Civil Rights, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights, Transgender Women Are Women".
You may have seen signs with some of these messages in your neighborhood. They offer us an all-or-nothing package deal - in short, a secular creed. In this provocative book, Rebecca McLaughlin helps us disentangle the beliefs Christians gladly affirm from those they cannot embrace, and invites us to talk with our neighbors about the things that matter most. Far from opposing love across difference, McLaughlin argues, Christianity is the original source and firmest foundation for true diversity, equality, and life-transforming love.
About the speaker
Rebecca McLaughlin holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. She is the author of Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion (2019), which was named book of the year by Christianity Today, and of 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity (2021), The Secular Creed: Engaging 5 Contemporary Claims (2021), and Is Christmas Unbelievable? Four Questions Everyone Should Ask About the World's Most Famous Story (2021). She lives in Cambridge Massachusetts with her husband Bryan, and their three children. Rebecca will join us via video call from the US.