Coming Events

International Conference

I am very happy to announce that from 10-13 March 2010 the INTAMS Chair for the Study of Marriage & Spirituality in cooperation with the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network and the Centre for Ecumenical Research at the Catholic University of Leuven will be hosting an international conference on the theme “The Household of God and Local Households –
Revisiting the Domestic Church” at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Further information is available at http://www.intams.org/

Although the situation of interchurch families will not directly be addressed by the key speakers, I am convinced that the conference will be of particular interest also for interchurch couples and their families:

• The conference includes various paper sessions in which scholars and practitioners are offered the possibility of presenting papers on the topic of domestic church. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention also to the specific situation of interchurch families. It is my hope that we can have a separate session with various contributions from the interchurch family perspective. Papers are welcome from a scholarly, but also from an experience-based perspective.
• The conference will provide the opportunity for the IFIN (Interchurch Families International Network) to meet and to exchange on an international level. Ultimately, we do not have so many opportunities to meet in person – the conference would be a chance to renew old contact and create new ones.
• The conference offers an interesting theological program with enriching and inspiring contributions from scholars and practitioners that will help us reflect and discuss about the relationship between churches and families – a field which interchurch families are particularly attentive to.

I would be grateful if you could spread the information within your national groups and to anyone who might be interested in it. I hope to welcome you in Leuven in March 2010.

With kind regards and best wishes,
Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi
INTAMS Chair for the Study of Marriage & Spirituality
Faculty of Theology
Catholic University Leuven
Belgium
Tel +32 2 359 9202

Coventry Memorial Lecture

Our Anglican President is The Most Rev and Rt Hon Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who will deliver the 6th John Coventry Memorial Lecture.

Watch the Association of Interchurch Families - UK website for details.

Association of Interchurch Families - UK
Saturday 20 March 2010, 2:15 p.m.
Church of the Immaculate Conception,
Farm Street, London W1

AAIF Biennial Conference

The next AAIF Biennial Conference will take place Friday - Sunday, JULY 9-11, 2010.

The AAIF Biennial Conference will be here before you know it. Please plan to join us. Please consult the American Association website for updates as they are made and to get conference registration materials and forms.

American Association of Interchurch Families
Friday - Sunday, 9-11 July 2010

Holy Wisdom Monastery / Benedictine Women of Madison Wisconsin

43rd Annual Conference

The AIF UK 43rd Annual Conference will be held at Swanwick in Derbyshire on the subject of 'Interchurch Families as Prophets'. Among the speakers will be the Rt Rev Bill Ind, former Anglican Bishop of Truro in Cornwall, and noted scholar Canon John Udris, Dean of Northampton RC Cathedral. The conference is open to interchurch couples and families, and to all those interested in or pastorally concerned with them. There will be a full parallel children's and young adults' programme.

Further details to follow - keep an eye on the website www.interchurchfamilies.org.uk, through which those interested will be able to reserve places soon.

Association of Interchurch Families - UK
Saturday 28 - Monday 30 August 2010

Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, England

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