King's will be holding an all day seminar with Derek Tidball, former principal of LST, on Saturday 27 March, near the NEC in Birmingham. Dr Tidball will be exploring aspects of Western and North American Evangelicalism, including its history, nature and some of the unique challenges it faces today. Further details of the venue and topic can be found here. 

While this seminar has been arranged for B.Th. and M.A. students, there may several places available for others interested in attending. To express your interest please email the college office (see contacts page, left). Given his wide speaking and writing on the issue, we look forward to Dr Tidball's lectures.

John Wyatt is Professor of Ethics &  Perinatology at University College London. He has lectured widely on issues in ethics from a Christian perspective and his most prominent book is Matters of life and death: Today's Healthcare Dilemmas in the Light of Christian Faith. In the following interview conducted by Andy Cheung, Professor Wyatt responds to some key questions in bioethics and related matters.

Students wishing to obtain funding towards taking a B.Th. with Kings Evangelical Divinity School may now apply for The Grafton-Holt Scholarship Award for Eschatological Research. The new award was set up by former KEDS student Paul Grafton-Holt and his wife Cynthia, who are providing this scholarship grant to help someone formally study the Word of God. Paul became KEDS’ first student to complete the B.Th programme and receive his degree in 2009 at the annual awards ceremony in Wales. He is now conducting research for his M.Phil at the UWL by examining Luke’s perspective on the eschatological view of the intermediate state. Full details of the fund and application information is available on the scholarships page.

We are grateful to Paul and Cynthia for helping KEDS students in this way, and we wish him well as he continues his postgraduate studies at Lampeter.

Recently, KEDS Principal Calvin Smith was invited to attend a consultation exploring the British churches and the Israel-Palestinian conflict, hosted by the conflict resolution charity Concordis International, Cambridge. The meeting was held at the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, on 19 September, and while there he presented one of two papers exploring the conflict from a theological perspective.  The paper has now been written up and is available on Dr Smith's personal site.