Stanley Samartha Lecture series
The signature event of BIRD’s activities is the annual Rev. Dr. Stanley Samartha Memorial Lecture series organized in the month of October since 2001 in honour of that “Christian prophet of religious pluralism” who took pride in always affirming that he was "a Hindu by culture, Christian by faith, Indian by citizenship and ecumenical by choice".
BIRD has so far organised seven lectures in this series since 2001.
- The Need for Inter-religious Dialogue,
- Communal Harmony – A Societal Perspective
- Religion in 21st Century – A perspective of Hope
- Courage for Dialogue
- Towards an Ethical Code of Conduct for Conversion
- The "Right to Convert & the Indian Constitution "and
- "The Power of Religion vs. the Religion of Power ".
They were delivered by Mr. Francois Gautier (2001), Dr. C.T.Kurien (2003), Dr. M.V.Nadkarni (2004), Rt. Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Chrysostom, Metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Church (2005), Dr. Hans Ucko of World Council of Churches(2006), Justice K.T.Thomas (2007) and Mr. M.J.Akbar (2008) respectively
