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Warriors for the Working Day: A talk by Colonel Chris Keeble

13 Nov 2009

Reflections from combat for our crisis-times

Raft of the Medusa (Theodore Gericault)

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 1-2pm
Common Room, St Peter’s House and Chaplaincy, Oxford Road, Manchester

Using Theodore Gericault's painting Raft of the Medusa as a metaphor, this talk will draw out some foundational virtues for leading in the 'crisis' created by the presence and action of Evil.

("For our struggle is... against the spiritual forces of evil...". Ephesians 6: 12).

This meeting is organised by the Christian Higher Education Network at Manchester.

For further information, please contact:

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Brief biography of Colonel Chris Keeble, DSO MSc FCMI

Christopher Keeble has enjoyed a challenging military and commercial career.

Born in Quetta, Pakistan, in 1941. Educated at Douai Abbey and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the UK's elite Parachute Regiment. Awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the Falklands Conflict of 1982.

Retired in 1986 to establish a praxis to enable senior leaders from national and international public and private sector institutions and corporations, to balance the ethic of business transformation with the ethic of peoples' flourishing.