The

Modern Churchpeople's Union

Liberal theology in a changing world

Past annual conferences

Modern Believing - previous cover design

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Erasmus

A State without the means of change is without the means of its conservation.

Burke

(These quotations headed early editions of the Modern Churchman.)

Year	Title	Chair Top
1934	The Bible and the Modern Man	W R Inge
1935	The Church of England: Its Constitution, Character and Call	W R Matthews
1936	What to Believe	W R Matthews
1937	Christianity and the Religious Crisis	W R Matthews
1938	Modern Christian Education	Cyril Norwood
1939	A Comprehensive Church	Cyril Norwood
1940	The Church Looks Forward (prepared but never held)

1941	no conference
1942	no conference
1943	The National Church and the National Life	Cyril Norwood
1944	no conference
1945	The Religion the World Needs
1946	The Historic Jesus and His Gospel	Cyril Norwood
1947	Problems of Christian Faith and Practice	Henry Self
1948	The Necessity for a Christian Modernism	Henry Self
1949	The Flight from Reason	Henry Self
1950	Towards Christian Reformation: Reassessment and Restatement	Henry Self

Year	Title	Chair Top
1951	The Church: Past, Present and Future	Henry Self
1952	Christianity Today: Challenge and Response	Henry Self
1953	Liberal Christianity in the Twentieth Century
1954	Christian Living in Modern Society	Henry Self
1955	Man: His Nature and Destiny
1956	Present Trends in English Religion
1957	The Sacred and the Secular	J L Wilson
1958	Christianity: a Faith for the World
1959	Life and Death
1960	Jesus Christ: His World and Ours	W H C Frend
1961	Christ and Human Need	W G Fallows
1962	The Church in our Contemporary World	H C Snape
Year	Title	Chair Top
1963	Religion in a Scientific World	John Drewett
1964	Symbols for the Sixties	A L Dunstan
1965	Christianity in Education Today	Denys Whiteley
1966	Honest Religion	J D Pearce-Higgins
1967	The Meaning of Christ for Today	Norman Pittenger
1968	Power Within a Christian Context	Edward Carpenter
1969	The Liberal Tradition in Christianity Papers published by MCU as 'Liberal Christianity in History' edited by Alan Stephenson.	Alan Stephenson
1970	Nature, Man and God	Edward Carpenter
1971	Freedom & Responsibility: Man's Dilemma in a World of Change and (R)evolution	Malcolm Goldsmith
1972	Search for Meaning	H C Snape
1973	Scientific and Christian Humanism	F E Compton
1974	Religions and the Future of Religion	Marcus Braybrooke
1975	Church and Society	R S O Stevens
1976	Integrity in the Religious Quest	A C Adcock
1977	Whither? A Study of the Shape of the Future	Norman Pittenger
1978	Germany and England: Prospects for a Theological Common Market	Stephen Sykes
1979	Liberal Christianity in Practice	Edward Compton
1980	Non-western Theologies and their Significance for the English Church
1981	Womanhood and Christianity	Diana McClatchey
1982	Technology and Human Values	Edgar Boyes
1983	Belief in God: A Faith for Today	Edward Carpenter
1984	The Church and Politics	John Elford
1985	Handling Life: Clues to Understanding and Caring	Gordon Dunstan
1986	Fundamentalism: Towards an Understanding	Stephen Platten
1987	Nature, Humanity and God: The Present Scientific Perspective'	Arthur Peacocke
1988	Is Liberal Theology Dead?	John Bowden
1989	The State of the Ark	Jenny Baker
1990	Three Faiths - One God: Christianity, Judaism and Islam	John Hick
1991	New Horizons for Religious Education	Brian Gates

Year	Title	Chair Top
1992	Christianity and Eastern Faiths: Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism	John Hick
1993	Faith Outside the Faiths	Tom Butler
1994	Theology and Church Action in Europe Today	Anthony Dyson
1995	Created and Creative: Art as a Contemporary Way of Spirituality	George Pattison
1996	Survival of the Fittest?	Simon Hughes
1997	Spirit and Spirituality, or ‘Finding the Gap'	Michael Hare Duke
1998	Thinking the Unthinkable	John Saxbee
1999	Christianity and Poverty in the 21st Century	Michael Taylor
2000	Jesus for the Third Millennium	Richard Holloway
2001	A Road to Nowhere? History, Purpose and Providence	Maurice Wiles
2002	By Whose Authority?	David Conner
2003	Globalising God [Book list]	John Atherton
2004	The God Experience: Who has it and Why? [Book list]	Paul Badham
2005	Science and Religion: Old Enemies or New Friends? [Book list]	Richard Harries
2006	Passion for Justice: Global and Faithful Perspectives on Sexuality [Book list]	Elaine Graham
2007	Violence: a stubborn pandemic [Book list]	Alan Race
2008	Saving the soul of Anglicanism: the nature and future of the Anglican Communion	Barry Morgan