2009 News
- News Archive
Professor Grey on the Road This Summer
Mary Grey, Professorial Research Fellow at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, will be travelling the country in the next few months making major contributions in a wide range of key areas including climate change, asylum seekers and the Palestinian peoples.
This Saturday (2nd May) she will present a paper (Sustaining the Pain of Broken Relation - the Case Study of Palestine) at Winchester University, as part of the 'Relationality Conference'.
Four days later (Wednesday May 6th), York is the venue for The Ebor Lecture at York St John University when Professor Grey will examine the Challenge of Climate change (Consider the lilies: Reading Luke's Gospel and Saving the Planet).
Later in the year, she will deliver the Annual Julian of Norwich Lecture in Norwich as part of the Julian Festival. The title of her lecture will be And All Shall be Well: Julian's Theology of Hope in an Age of Violence.
She will be speaking at the National Justice and Peace Conference (July 17-19) in Swanwick on Migration and Asylum Seekers before giving a paper at the Centre for Theology and Health, Holy Rood House, Thirsk, on Spirituality and Trauma - a Global Perspective.
Mary Grey was educated both at Oxford and Louvain University, Belgium. Before moving to St Mary's she was DJ James Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
She has had many books published. For 10 years she was editor of the Journal Ecotheology.
Her theological project is now reconciliation, of which reconciliation to the earth is a special focus. See To Rwanda and Back: Spirituality, Justice and Liberation, (Darton, Longman and Todd 2008). She is a founding trustee of the NGO, Wells for India, a water-based organisation in Rajasthan, NW India and is also Chair of the Theology Group of Friends of Sabeel UK, an organisation for the liberation of Christian in Palestine.
