The survival of hope

What grounds are there for hope in these dark times? The collapse of the structured societies we’ve created often seems so near. Corruption, global warming, wars, natural disasters and constant political upheaval, seem to threaten existence as we know it. And trust has become a very scarce commodity. These lectures will attempt to establish a reasonable basis for maintaining hope in times like these.

This three lecture series will be given by the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths’ Lord Griffiths of Bury Port. For a synopsis of each lecture and to register, please see our pages on Eventbrite.
1. False hopes
2. Crossing the threshold of hope
3. With hope in our hearts

Leslie Griffiths spent much of the 1970s as a minister in Haiti in education and mission work. Since his return to the UK in 1980 he has served the church in a variety of posts in Reading, Loughton, Golder’s Green and Hinde Street. He has been Superintendent minister at Wesley’s Chapel, London since 1996 .

In 1994-1995 he was President of the Methodist Conference. He regularly broadcasts for Radio 4 The Daily Service and The Tablet Premier Radio and writes for The Methodist Recorder and the Church Times. He has written many books including his Autobiography View from the edge, Letters Home, Touching the Pulse: Worship and Our Diverse World, Voices from the Desert: A Spirituality for Our Times and World without End?: Contours of a Post-terrorism Landscape. He was for 17 years a contributor to Thought for the Day