This session provides tools to understand our view of the world and how we use it to assess what is true.

Contributors to Session 1:

Tony Watkins
Tony is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch and a speaker with the Damaris Trust.

Tom Price
Tom is an Academic Tutor at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, an Associate of RZIM Zacharias Trust, and a Damaris speaker. Tom was the founding editor of the apologetics website bethinking.org.

In this session, an atheist and a theist present their arguments in the debate about the existence of God.

Contributors to Session 2:

Dr Ard Louis
Ard is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group studying problems on the border between chemistry, physics and biology. He is also the International Secretary for Christians in Science, an associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and has served on the European advisory board of the John Templeton Foundation.[1]

Dr David Webster
David is a Senior Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucester. He joined the University of Gloucester in 2000, after working at Sunderland University and the Open University. His main research interests are Buddhist Studies, the Philosophy of Desire, and Issues of Ageing, Sickness and Death in Philosophy and Religion.

Dr Sharon Dirckx
Sharon Dirckx is an Academic Tutor at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and an associate apologist for The Zacharias Trust. Originally from a scientific background, she has a Ph.D. in brain imaging from the University of Cambridge and has held research positions in Switzerland, the USA and the University of Oxford.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ard_Louis

This session considers the challenge of reconciling human suffering and God’s goodness, suggesting God’s solution to the problem.

Contributors to Session 3:

Charles Clayton
Charles worked as executive director of World Vision UK, and then as executive director of World Vision for Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza. He now is director of Oxford Leaders, working with non-profit organistional leaders and boards. He also is Chief Executive of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation.

Dr Mee Yan Cheung Judge 
Mee-Yan is the creator and driving force behind Quality & Equality. She founded Quality & Equality in June 1987 after a distinguished eight-year career in academia and in the marketplace.

In this session, evidence for the reliability of the Bible is offered as well as reflection on how the Bible impacts our lives today.

Contributor to Session 4:

Amy Orr-Ewing
Amy is director of Programmes for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and Training Director for RZIM Zacharias Trust.

This session explores the significance of Jesus’ claim to be God.

Contributors to Session 5:

Rachel Gardner
Rachel is founder and creative director of the Romance Academy, a UK-based education experience that gives teens the tools they need to make intelligent choices about sex and relationships.

Dr Krish Kandiah
Krish is the Executive Director of Churches in Mission and England Director for the UK Evangelical Alliance.

This session considers the problem of sin and the importance of Jesus’ death.

Rachel Gardner
Rachel is founder and creative director of the Romance Academy, a UK-based education experience that gives teens the tools they need to make intelligent choices about sex and relationships.

Dr Krish Kandiah
Krish is the Executive Director of Churches in Mission and England Director for the UK Evangelical Alliance.

This session looks at the evidence for and significance of Jesus’ resurrection.

Contributors to Session7:

Rosie Budden  
Rosie is a Family Law Barrister and member of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship.

Dr Krish Kandiah
Krish is the Executive Director of Churches in Mission and England Director for the UK Evangelical Alliance.

This session suggests how being a Christian brings positive change in different areas of our lives.

Contributors to Session 8:

Brian Draper
Brian is a writer, associate lecturer in culture at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and contributor to BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day. He is also the founder and director of Echosounder, ‘a four-part taster course on spiritual intelligence’.

Rachel Gardner
Rachel is founder and creative director of the Romance Academy, a UK-based education experience that gives teens the tools they need to make intelligent choices about sex and relationships.

Dr Krish Kandiah
Krish is the Executive Director of Churches in Mission and England Director for the UK Evangelical Alliance.