Philosophy in Full Colour
October 8, 2025
KLC hosts a variety of private events within our hubs and seminars, a monthly open prayer meeting, and occasional public events with our members and partners, which typically happen on the third Thursday of each month. We also host a biennial conference in Cambridge and our annual meal during SBL in North America.
Below you can sign up to receive our monthly prayer liturgy and meeting details, see any upcoming public events, and watch recordings of past events.
Prayer is at the heart of KLC’s work. Under the leadership of Hugo Herfst, we will host an hour prayer meeting on the first Thursday of every month at 4pm UK time that is open to the whole KLC community.
The Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar continues its multiyear project exploring difficult texts as Christian Scripture. The focus for 2026 is Joshua and Judges.
If we believe, with the Apostle Paul, that ALL Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for the list of formative characteristics in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, then that includes Joshua and Judges. But this raises the all-important question: how do Joshua and Judges form and shape us into the people God is calling us to be in Christ? To explore this question, we will gather for 3 online events (March, June, and September) to consider questions of hermeneutics, intertextuality / reception history, and formation. Our in-person gathering at November’s IBR/SBL conferences in Denver will be a summative session and dialogue. We hope this work will strengthen and encourage our academic engagement with these books for the sake of the Church.
This first event focuses on hermeneutical considerations and will feature two presentations, from Dr Dave Beldman and Fr. Paul Béré, SJ. There will be some time for discussion and we will aim to close the session within the hour.
Wednesday March 4, 2026
1pm MST, 3pm EST, 8pm UK, 7am (March 5th) Sydney
Online via Zoom
This year is KLC’s “Year of the Decalogue,” as we anticipate the completion of Craig Bartholomew’s Moses and the Victory of Yahweh and plan a host of events and related projects focusing on this pivotal epoch in redemption history.
Our Arts Fellowship is hosting a public meeting on 12 February with Craig Bartholomew presenting. The title is “Art and the Ethos of the Good Neighbourhood.“
Philip Rieff described the giving of the Mosaic Law as representing the “translation of the sacred order into social order.” How might this transformation of the social order by the sacred play out in the realm of the arts? In Christian history, the Mosaic Law has often served as a flashpoint in the debate about the appropriate role of artists in public life – particularly around the constraints on the creation of “graven images.” But do the Ten Commandments only represent limitations for the artist, or might they also represent a generative, redemptive mandate?
Craig Bartholomew brings his recent research on the Decalogue to bear on the role that the arts might play in a social order transformed and being transformed by the Word of God. The talk will be followed by a time of Q&A.
Below you will find the video recordings from various events we have held, arranged by year. Use the Previous/Next buttons to see more event videos, or click here to see all our videos on YouTube.
