Showing posts with label birmingham. Show all posts
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Tuesday 10 May 2016

Job Vacancy – Graphic Designer

Adobe InDesign upgrade from PageMaker
Adobe InDesign upgrade from PageMaker (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A vacancy has arisen at the English Christadelphian Office for a full-time graphic designer. Working in a small team producing The Christadelphian, Faith Alive!, Study Guides, preaching booklets and other material, the successful candidate will possess good graphic design skills and be a proficient user of Adobe software including InDesign. The Office is now an extensive producer of electronic as well as printed material, and the successful candidate will play a major part in continuing this work. We are looking for someone who is sensitive to the history and traditions of our community but is able to bring a fresh and modern appearance to our publications. Knowledge of web design would be an advantage.

Based in Hall Green, Birmingham, this is a permanent role (subject to a probationary period) offering a competitive salary and good terms and conditions. Part time / flexible working arrangements may be considered for the right candidate. Applications should be sent by email to the Editor, accompanied by a CV and some relevant examples of recent work. Further details are available on request. The closing date for applications is 17.00 on Friday May 20, 2016. 
 
Please contact Andrew Bramhill the A vacancy has arisen at the Christadelphian Office for a full-time graphic designer. Working in a small team producing The Christadelphian, Faith Alive!, Study Guides, preaching booklets and other material, the successful candidate will possess good graphic design skills and be a proficient user of Adobe software including InDesign. The Office is now an extensive producer of electronic as well as printed material, and the successful candidate will play a major part in continuing this work. We are looking for someone who is sensitive to the history and traditions of our community but is able to bring a fresh and modern appearance to our publications. Knowledge of web design would be an advantage.

Based in Hall Green, Birmingham, this is a permanent role (subject to a probationary period) offering a competitive salary and good terms and conditions. Part time / flexible working arrangements may be considered for the right candidate. Applications should be sent by email to the Editor, accompanied by a CV and some relevant examples of recent work. Further details are available on request. The closing date for applications is 17.00 on Friday May 20, 2016. 

Andrew Bramhill, Editor

editor@thechristadelphian.com

Wednesday 5 August 2015

Koran fragments found in UK library are among world's oldest, says university

The University of Birmingham in central England may be the proud owner of fragments of one of the world's oldest surviving copies a Koran manuscript which may even have been written by someone who knew Prophet Mohammad, researchers said on July 22nd.

Muslim tradition says the prophet received the revelations of the Koran  between 610 and 632 — but it wasn't written down immediately. The first leader of the community after Muhammad's death, Caliph Abu Bakr, ordered the book to be written and it was completed by the third leader, Caliph Uthman, in 650.

Radiocarbon dating indicated that the parchment folios were at least 1,370 years old, which would make them one of the earliest written forms of the Islamic holy book in existence.
UK university unearths ancient Quran fragments

The manuscript was part of the university's collection of 3,000 Middle Eastern documents which was acquired in the 1920s by Alphonse Mingana, a Chaldean priest born near Mosul in Iraq.

His trips to acquire the manuscripts were funded by Quaker philanthropist Edward Cadbury, whose family made their fortune in chocolate, to raise the status of Birmingham as an intellectual centre for religious studies.
"The parts of the Koran that are contained in those fragments are very similar indeed to the Koran as we have it today,"
David Thomas, professor of Christianity and Islam, said.
 "This tends to support the view that the Koran that we now have is ... very close indeed to the Koran as it was brought together in the early years of Islam,"

"(These fragments) give us glimpses into potentially how something which we now call the Koran might have been used in this early period and how it might have been recorded,"

said Sajjad Rizvi, Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.


The leaves, held in the university's Mingana Collection, contain parts of chapters 18 to 20, written with ink in an early form of Arabic script known as Hijazi.

"This is indeed an exciting discovery,"

said Muhammad Isa Waley, lead curator for Persian and Turkish manuscripts at the British Library in London.
"A lot of people from Birmingham and all over the country will love to see it,"
said Muhammad Ali, the administrator at Birmingham Central Mosque.

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Thursday 4 December 2014

Wednesday 8 October 2014

More Muslim children than Christian children growing up in our cities

England has to come to face what can be seen already in many cities at the continent.

  • Statistics from 2011 Census show more Muslim children than Christian growing up in Birmingham 
  • Of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered as Muslim compared with 93,828 as Christian  
  • A similar trend has emerged in the cities of Bradford and Leicester
  • Experts said more must be done to ensure that society does not become polarised along religious lines 

English: More crowds on Brick Lane
English: More crowds on Brick Lane (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This frightens many Christians. What I do find strange is that of those scared Christians nobody wonders why so many Caucasians coming form a Catholic or protestant family (Anglican, Church of England)  wanted to convert to a religion which was not for a long time originally present in their surroundings.

In England’s second* city of Birmingham, of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered as Muslim compared with 93,828 as Christian. The rest were of other faiths such as Hindu or Jewish, or none.
A similar trend has emerged in the cities of Bradford and Leicester, the towns of Luton, in Bedfordshire, and Slough in Berkshire, as well as the London boroughs Newham, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets, where nearly two-thirds of children are Islamic.
writes in his article Children in many UK Towns and Cities now more likely to be Muslim rather than Christian. 

I do agree with Professor Ted Cantle, of the ICoCo Foundation who said:
‘What we are seeing are several trends running together. There is a long-term decline in support for the established religions, notably Christianity; continuing immigration from the Asian sub-continent; and higher fertility among the Muslim population, which has a considerably lower age profile.
But to me it is not only by deepening segregation exacerbated by the loss of white population from cities, which the professor and many white people say. It is not only in the cities where we can find more intensive concentration of black and minority ethnic groups as a result of replacement, that we do find Muslims. In Belgium for example there are a lot of Belgians, with Belgian Caucasian ancestors, who converted to the Islam.

It is far too easy to point the finger to a so called "pace of demographic change" and saying that the Government has no policy to combat segregation 
"because it inevitably reduces understanding and tolerance on both sides of the divide."
We should more come to see that we are going to a secularization because lots of people are not anymore interested in relgion and have no message in the god of others.

Why do not more people come to see that the churches in the West lost their flock? Churches are running, even so much that many churches already became closed and that in many villages there are not any more weekly services. For Sunday Mass people now have to go a few kilometres out of their doorstep, but this is perhaps demanded too much for them. So where is their connection with their faith and what do they want to do for their faith. The same can be said for their clergymen, are they really going out preaching, proclaiming the Word of God? How many Christians are willing to testify for their faith and do go out preaching the Gospel of the Good News?

Do Christians not have to see in their own bosom, to find that not many Christians really have a true faith?

There is still hope for the Christian community to have it back growing or not diminishing any more.
The figures show that Christianity is still the dominant religion in every local authority area in England and Wales, even in the most culturally diverse towns and cities.
Of the 45.5million participants, 27.9million subscribed to Christianity, compared with 1.8million Muslims, the second largest grouping.
However, among dependent children – defined as those aged up to 15, or between 16 and 18 and in education and still living at home – the gap is narrower.
Of 12.1million youngsters, 6.1million were Christian and 1million were Muslim. And in some places, the balance has now tipped towards Islam.
In Bradford, 52,135 children are Muslims (45 per cent) next to 47,144 Christians; in Leicester the figures are 22,693 and 18,190 respectively.
The widest gap is in Tower Hamlets where 62 per cent of children are Islamic, outnumbering Christians by 34,597 to 8,995.
writes Paul Alexander.

Sughra Ahmed, president of the Islamic Society of Britain, said:
‘Britain’s Muslims make up just 5 per cent of the population but have a younger demographic profile than other faiths, as these figures show. It matters to us all that this next generation of young British Muslims develops a clear and confident sense of their British identity alongside their Muslim faith. It’s important that schools teach all of our children the values of respect and tolerance.
For every Western country it is important that all children learn to respect all other cultures and religions.
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Note: *The Daily Mail, Sept. 15, 2014, denotes Birmingham as England’s “second city” but some estimates rank Birmingham as the third largest city by population, below Manchester and London.
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Wednesday 20 March 2013

Christadelphian School in South Wales

The proposal for a Christadelphian School in South Wales has been unsuccessful due to lack of political support from the Welsh Government and Local Education Authority. In England, however, faith schools are looked on more favourably and are being encouraged, to a certain extent, by the government's free school initiative.
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Rathmines_2011_ 028 (Photo credit: MargaretBee)


There is a strong demand in Birmingham in terms of Christadelphian families wishing to send their children to a Heritage College. There are also a number of people prepared to support a project in terms of data collection, financial advice, sourcing a suitable location and writing the necessary documentation etc. In spite of this, no-one has come forward to lead the project.

Is there anyone in your ecclesia prepared to take on this role? There is full support available for any brother or sister prepared to take the Heritage College Birmingham on (both from our Swansea team and the newschoolsnetwork.org). It would be a shame to miss such an opportunity, especially as the school would be open to children from a non-Christadelphian background, and would thus be a strong vehicle for preaching the gospel as well as providing an excellent education. Anyone wanting further information should contact us - Andy & Sarah Joiner (project.managers@heritagecollege.co.uk or telephone 01792 232001).

It is also worth noting that Andy & Sarah Joiner have collected in the region of 6,000.00.pounds If there is no other group in the UK prepared to try to start a Christadelphian School, then the money we have collected will be given to an existing Heritage College(s).
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Thursday 7 February 2013

Moseley Annual Quiz Evening

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to you and your youth group to join us at our Annual Quiz Evening, to be held on Saturday 9th February 2013, God willing. This year'€™s venue will be: Hall Green Christadelphian Hall, 20 Springfield Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 9NW. A location map is available on request. 

The evening will commence at 6.00pm promptly with a short Bible talk, followed by the quiz. We hope the evening will conclude by about 8.30pm.
If you have not joined us for the quiz evening before, do come along and find out what you have been missing. The quiz is an enjoyable evening for all, no matter what your knowledge and knowledge doesn'€™t really help that much! The quiz is general knowledge with a mixture of bible-based and other rounds.

There will be about ten rounds of questions; each round being eight to ten questions. The Question Master will put all questions to the team verbally. Answers to each round will be on a piece of paper, and all members of the team collectively join together to answer them. We would emphasise that no one will be asked questions directly, so no one will be put on the spot and made to look silly if they don'€™t know the answers it is a written team quiz.

There is no limit to the number of teams that one CYC can enter, but could you please note that each team is to consist of five members, one of whom should be a leader, and the combined age of the other four members must not exceed 65 years. It would be useful to have a spread of ages, including those of Junior CYC age, as there will be questions aimed specifically at the younger team members, who may be the only ones who will know the answers. The scorers will mark each round at the same time as the next round's questions are being asked. An overall score for the round will be noted, but no indication of which questions were answered rightly or wrongly will be given, so as to avoid embarrassment in not knowing the answer to a specific question.

The entrance fee will be £5.00 per team. The four younger members of the winning team will each receive a £5.00 gift voucher, which can be spent at the Christadelphian Office. The leader in each team will not receive a prize. The team winning the competition, as well as the teams finishing second and third will each receive a framed certificate to keep.

I would be grateful if you could let me know if you are entering a team, or teams, by Tuesday 5th February, so that we can do a little bit of pre-planning. If there are any other points that you need clarifying, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Your brother in Christ,

Robin Britton
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Thursday 29 December 2011

Assyriologist brother Wilfred Lambert goes to sleep

For 30 years the eminent Birmingham-born historian and archaeologist Prof Lambert (1926-2011) taught and researched at the University of Birmingham. But every single Thursday he would journey to the Department of the Near East in the British Museum, where he read and deciphered cuneiform tablets, the raw material of Assyriology.

This Christadelphian became one of the world’s top specialists in ancient eastern history and would be missed.
The funeral of internationally-respected Professor Wilfred Lambert took place at West Birmingham Christadelphian Hall, in Quinton, this week.

His skills and thoughts were chronicled in various published works, including Babylonian Wisdom Literature (1960); Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood (1969); Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, II, (2005) Babylonian Oracle Questions (2007). His latest work, Babylonian Creation Myths, is waiting for a publication date.
The British Museum, Room 55 - Cuneiform Collec...
The British Museum, Room 55 - Cuneiform Collection, including the Epic of Gilgamesh. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


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Friday 22 July 2011

The Bible4Life ­- a Multimedia Presentation

The Midlands CALS has arranged an evening of preaching in Birmingham Town Hall on Monday September 26th at 7.30pm. There are 900 seats to fill, and all ecclesias are invited to bring their regular visitors, senior Sunday School children, Seminar attendees, and other contacts.

Rather than a straight talk the programme will consist of three dramatic presentations: Tyndale and Bible Translations; Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream and Bible prophecy; and the High Priest and the way of salvation through Jesus.

It will take about an hour.

The Town Hall authorities are insisting on entrance tickets, which can be obtained in advance from

Sis (Mrs) Pat Brown,
5 Marshfield Close
Church Hill North
Redditch
B98 8RW
Tel 01527 647787
Email: pat.m.brown@talktalk.net.

Tickets must be ordered by Monday 12th September.

Further information will be sent to Midlands Recording Brethren during July and August.

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