The Swarthmore Lecture

2024 Swarthmore Lecture – Getting What We Deserve? Imprisonment and the Challenge of Doing Justice by Ben Jarman

In the 2024 lecture, Ben Jarman explored the myth and reality of how society responds to serious crimes, charting the uses and abuses of society’s responses to crime: retributive punishment, rehabilitative intervention, public protection, and…

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2021 Swarthmore Lecture – Kinder Ground Creating Space for Truth by Thomas Penny

Kinder Ground Creating Space for Truth by Thomas Penny Thomas Penny’s 2021 Swarthmore lecture addresses Truth in the era of fake news, and draws on his 29 years’ experience working as a journalist. He revisits…

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2020 Swarthmore Lecture – Openings to the Infinite Ocean: A Friendly Offering of Hope by Tom Shakespeare

Openings to the Infinite Ocean: A Friendly Offering of Hope by Tom Shakespeare How do we face all the very real, terrible things that happen in our world and still have hope? How did Friends…

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2019 Swarthmore Lecture – On Earth as it is in Heaven; The Kingdom of God and the yearning of Creation by Eden Grace

On Earth as it is in Heaven; The Kingdom of God and the yearning of Creation by Eden Grace Eden explored Quaker eco-theology, from early Friends to Quakers today. Through stories of Friends’ response to…

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2018 Swarthmore Lecture (Video)

The 2018 Swarthmore Lecture: ‘Changing ourselves, changing the world’ was given by life-long Quaker, artist and activist Chris Alton.  You can watch a subtitled recording of Chris Alton’s Swarthmore Lecture here:

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2018 Swarthmore Lecture (Audio)

The audio recording of Chris Alton’s 2018 Swarthmore Lecture.

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2017 Swarthmore Lecture (Video)

The Swarthmore Lecture 2017: Faith in politics? A testimony to equality was given by Catherine West at 7:30 pm on Monday 31st July 2017 as part of Yearly Meeting Gathering at Warwick University.

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