The Edward Cadbury Lectures are supported by an endowment from the Cadbury Family to the University of Birmingham for an annual series of lectures open to the public on the history, theology and culture of Christianity.
The first Cadbury Lectures were delivered in 1948 by the historian Arnold Toynbee, followed by a succession of eminent scholars from around the world.
Previous Cadbury lecture series (including videos of lectures)
- 2024: Translation Matters: A Model of Womanist Biblical Interpretation (Rev Dr Wil Gafney, Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Ft. Worth, TX)
- 2021: Values are the New Religion (Professor Linda Woodhead MBE, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster)
- 2019: The Home of God (Professor Miroslav Volf, Yale Divinity School)
- 2018: Global religious and secular dynamics and trends (Professor Jose Casanova, Georgetown University)
- 2017: Heavenly Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Church (Professor Candida Moss, University of Notre Dame)
- 2016: Religion in public life: levelling the ground (Professor Grace Davie, University of Exeter)
- 2015: God over all (Professor William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University)
- 2014: Is the New Testament anti-Jewish? (Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University)
- 2013: Religion out of the box: dialogues with academy, society and culture (various speakers)
- 2012: Seeing is believing in modern Christianity (various inc Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams)
- 2011: Parables for the city (Bishop David Urquhart, Bishop Bernard Longley)