Faith and Frontiers - Christian Responses to the Migration Crisis

Saturday 18 February 2023

This conference has been rescheduled and was originally to be held in September 2022

This conference will explore the challenges to policy and practice that arise when people cross borders to seek sanctuary. Specifically, it addresses the question of what the Christian response to those who seek care and shelter in our country should be, and asks what insights can be derived from the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Location:

Online

Speaker:

Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Ulrich Schmiedel, Keith Clements

Host:

Project Bonhoeffer

Full details

"The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic"

Thursday 16 February 2023

Location:

Trinity URC, St Albans

Speaker:

Discussing aspects of Jack Spong's book on John's Gospel

Full details in group programme

What is it like to be a refugee?

Tuesday 14 February 2023

Location:

Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7BJ

Speaker:

Guest speaker Md Mominul Hamid

Full details in group programme

Rev. Fadi Diab, the rector of St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ramallah, reflects on his first-hand experiences following the killing of Shireen Abu Aqla and the raid on his church by the Israeli military.

Fr. Diab is also Chief Justice, Episcopal Ecclesiastical Court, Jerusalem, and Diocesan Secretary, Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East.

Location:

Online

Speaker:

Rev. Dr. Fadi Diab, Rector of St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ramallah, Palestine

Full details in group programme

Hello Thinkers! It's second Sunday (12 Feb) and so time for Thinking Aloud Allowed again. This month we welcome the Rev Kathleen Richardson to lead our thinking and her topic is Assisted Dying.

Location:

Online Zoom

Speaker:

The Rev Kathleen Richardson

Full details in group programme

Join renowned speaker, author and academic Professor Linda Woodhead MBE (“one of the world’s leading experts on religion”) to explore whether Britain is still a Christian country.

Location:

Zoom

Speaker:

Linda Woodhead

Host:

PCN Britain

Full details

Darren Oldridge is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Worcester. He is a specialist in sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious history. In this talk, Darren will draw on his ongoing work on Tudor and Stuart demonology, and relate this to contemporary concerns.

Location:

Friends Meeting House, 1 Orchard Road, Malvern, WR14 3DA

Speaker:

Professor Darren Oldridge

Full details in group programme

The results from the 2021 census relating to responses about religious affiliation make sobering reading for Christian churches. We shall discuss our reaction to these findings and how these reactions might be affected by the latest decision by the Anglican Church in England regarding same-sex marriage and its celebration.

Location:

This will be a Zoom Meeting, please contact the convenor by email if you wish to come.

Full details in group programme

Introduction to Deep Abiding Prayer

Wednesday 25 January 2023

Learn about the roots of this heart- and Spirit- centred form of healing prayer within the Biblical and contemplative Christian traditions.

Location:

Zoom

Speaker:

Petra Griffiths

Host:

A Living Spirituality Connections event in partnership with St James’s Church Piccadilly.

Full details

What is peace?

Thursday 19 January 2023

At the November meeting, attendees requested that we look at the issue of "What is Peace?".

If anyone who is coming would like to suggest a film clip or any other resource to share in stimulating the theme, please let Mike Dennis know so he can arrange for the item to be available for viewing. All contributions of comments/ observations/sharing will be welcome as we explore what is a significant issue for the church and the world.

Location:

49 Milton Crescent Tavistock

Full details in group programme

This session aims to sketch a Christian approach to creation drawing on the insights offered by the ancient biblical character of Woman Wisdom (Prov 8:22–31), who is the very Wisdom of God.

This meeting will also be broadcast via zoom

Location:

Friends Meeting House, 1 Orchard Road, Malvern, WR14 3DA

Speaker:

Revd Dr Robin Parry

Full details in group programme

'Permission to doubt' using Brian McLaren's book 'Faith after doubt'

Tuesday 10 January 2023

Location:

Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7BJ

Speaker:

Discussion led by Joyce

Full details in group programme

The usual reminder that we meet on Sunday evening, 8th January, on Zoom at 6.30 pm for Thinking Aloud Allowed. Led by the Rev Andy Lowe, it will be the regular Zoom link info - copied below for your convenience.

Location:

Online Zoom

Speaker:

Rev Andy Lowe

Full details in group programme

Continuing our recent theme, we shall be examining the basis of moral judgements from a progressive Christian standpoint.

Location:

This will be a Zoom Meeting, please contact the convenor by email if you wish to come

Full details in group programme

Another in the series from Uppity Women of the Bible.

This is the 3rd in the series. (Apologies for not posting details of the October meeting on the book of Judith)

Location:

49 Milton Crescent Tavistock PL19 9AL

Speaker:

Dr Lisa Wolfe on DVD

Full details in group programme

What does progressive Christianity offer those of us who choose it? What demands does it make on us? Particularly, what does it call us to be and to do?

Location:

Zoom

Speaker:

Amanda Udis-Kessler.

Full details in group programme

Let's talk about death

Sunday 13 November 2022

“Hey, I know! Let’s talk about death!” ...
Join our “Death Café” conversation with Chris McDermott (University Chaplain, Sussex) and Louise Harman (Artist, Researcher, Advocate of Arts Education and creator of “Louise on Death”.)

Living fully, at home with our mortality and normalising the conversation about death.

Location:

Online Zoom

Speaker:

Chris McDermott and Louise Harman

Full details in group programme

Anthony Reddie is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. His scholarship in Black theology has been Informed by his doctorate in Education and Practical theology, undertaken at the University of Birmingham with Professor John Hull. This has given him an Interdisciplinary method to the subject that Is somewhat different from the more classical, systematic approaches to Black theology.

This meeting will also be broadcast via zoom

Location:

Friends Meeting House, 1 Orchard Road, Malvern, WR14 3DA & via zoom

Speaker:

Professor Anthony Reddie

Full details in group programme

Have Christians anything particular to say (and do) about climate change?

Saturday 5 November 2022

Noone would complain if we said that churches should promote sustainable living. But what does it mean for the individual Christian? We meet in Gloucester, all are welcome.

Location:

Christchurch, Abbeydale, Gloucester, GL4 5EQ

Speaker:

Rachel Saum

Full details in group programme

The moral and ethical issues involved with euthanasia.

Location:

This will be a Zoom Meeting, please contact the convenor by email if you wish to come

Full details in group programme