The Rt Revd Dr Bill Musk will preach the sermon ‘Holy Trinity – tell or smell?’ on Sunday, 22nd May.
The Ramsden Sermon takes place in the University Church, Great St Mary’s, at 11.15am, and focuses on Church extension overseas, especially within the Commonwealth of Nations.
It will be delivered by Dr Bill Musk who, until retirement in 2015, was Assistant Bishop for North Africa in the Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa and was also Rector of St George's Church, Tunis.
Educated at the University of Oxford, where he read Modern History, the University of London and the London Bible College, Dr Musk first worked in religious publishing in the Middle East before undertaking ordination training and a Master's degree at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Trinity College, Bristol. Ordained deacon in 1981 and priest a year later, he obtained his doctorate at the University of South Africa in 1984. After a period as Assistant Minister at the Anglican Cathedral in Cairo and nearly twenty years of parish ministry in the UK in the Diocese of Liverpool and then Southwark, he was consecrated as Assistant Bishop for North Africa and inducted as Rector of St George's Tunis in 2008.
Dr Musk has published widely on interactions with Islam; beginning with The Unseen face of Islam (1989), then Holy War (1992), Touching the Soul of Islam (1995), Kissing Cousins? (2005) and most recently The Certainty Trap (2008).
All are welcome and there will be a wine-reception in Michaelhouse afterwards for those present. Members of the University attending should wear their gowns and doctors should wear scarlet.