We need to talk about gender – 8th October at 7pm – at New Hall

We need to talk about gender: Christian Approaches

to challenging questions for changing times

 with Prof Tina Beattie

8^th October – 7pm

at New Hall

Refreshments will be served at 6.30pm

We begin a second year of our series ‘Today’s Big Questions: towards a Christian Response’ with an in-person talk by Prof Tina Beattie. The talk will take place at New Hall.

Tina will explore the ways in which church teaching is becoming more pastorally sensitive to issues of gender and sexuality, and will ask how we might reflect on the complex challenges facing young people as they explore what it means to be a gendered person in a changing world.

Tina Beattie is a Christian theologian, writer and broadcaster.

Until August 2020, Tina was the Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Roehampton in London and Director of the Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion, Society and Human Flourishing at the same university. In retirement, she continues working as an independent academic in research and writing, and also writes fiction. She regularly presents Thought for the Day on Radio 4. 

Tina’s theological contribution is notable in the areas of Catholic theology and psychoanalytic theory; gender and sexuality; Marian theology; theology and literature and art; atheism and religion; women’s rights. She is a long-standing advocate of a more prominent role of women in the Catholic Church.