The annual spring theological lectures, organised by the Church of Ireland chaplaincy at Queen's University Belfast, are considered one of the year's intellectual highlights. This year's lectures will be held on Monday and Tuesday in the geography lecture theatre, Elmwood Avenue, at 5.30 p.m.
The lecturer will be Dr Christian Baxter, who will speak on "Authority and Service in Christian Leadership Today: a Conversation with St Paul in Corinthians", and on "Service and Authority in Christian Leadership Today: Question posed to us by St Paul and the Corinthians".
Dr Baxter is principal of St John's College, Nottingham, which is one of the leading Anglican theological colleges in England, and is closely involved in the work of the general synod and the Anglican Consultative Council.
She is known internationally as a theologian, having been a former visiting professor in Princeton Theological Seminary, where she gave the important Warfield Lectures in 1990, and the Church of England representative on the Partners in Mission Consultation in South Africa in 1996.
Since 1993, Dr Baxter has been a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Advisory Group and her contribution to the life of the Church of England was recognised in 1996 with her appointment as lay Canon Theologian in Coventry Cathedral.
Today the South American Missionary Society will hold its annual conference and rally in Lurgan. Among the guest speakers will be the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, who will report on his recent visit to South America.
Tomorrow, RTE will broadcast morning service from St Polycarp's Church, Finaghy, Belfast, where the rector is the Rev Clifford Skillen. BBC Radio Ulster will broadcast morning service from St Patrick's Church, Ballymena, conducted by the Rev Robin Lavery.
In Dublin, the Lenten preacher in St Bartholomew's parish church will be the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Donald Caird, while in the Chapel of Trinity College the preacher will be the Rev Norman McCauseland, chaplain-tutor in the Theological College.
At the sung eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral, Father Bernard Treacy OP, editor of Doctrine and Life, will be the first preacher in a Lenten series of addresses entitled "A Faith for the New Millennium", while evensong will be sung in memory of Arnold McKiernan, who was the cathedral's organist and director of music from 1955 to 1979.
The final lecture in the series on medical ethics in the new hospital in Tallaght will be held on Monday evening, when Dr Marianne Arndt, from the department of nursing in the University of Stirling, will speak on "Ethical Considerations in the Allocation of Resources in Healthcare".
Medical ethics is also the subject of the first in a series of talks organised by the churches in Malahide and Portmarnock, which will take place in St Andrew's school hall, Malahide, on Wednesday evening.
On Tuesday, the final lecture in the lunchtime series on "Christ Church in Stuart Dublin" will be given by Dr Edward McParland, from the department of the history of art in Trinity College Dublin, who will speak on "The Four Courts at Christ Church: an Architectural View".
In St Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday evening the Friends will host a talk by the architect, David Slattery, on the restoration of the Boyle and Jones monuments there.
The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will conduct a parish mission in Camlough, Co Armagh for three days, beginning on Wednesday, while in the Joly Theatre in TCD the governor of Mountjoy Prison, Mr John Lonergan, will speak on the Lenten theme of captivity.