Monday 25 April 2016
Bishop Martin Shaw,late of Argyll & the Isles now living in Exeter spoke on this topic to Exeter PCN group in June 2013. "It's going to be fierce & it's going to be confusing", he promised & his outspoken presentation was just that .The CD recording of his talk provides a dynamic 75 minutes experience.
Monday 25 April 2016
Open discussion of topical events. Followed with next session of our study from Living The Questions.
Friday 22 April 2016
Wednesday 20 April 2016
For church members are they relevant when activity is controlled by central power groups? For non church members, do they really help?
Tuesday 19 April 2016
Open discussion to reflect on passed events and an opportunity to discuss future dates.
Monday 18 April 2016
Discussion of "Why did Jesus come and why did he die?"
Tuesday 5 April 2016
A discussion of the issues arising at Easter for progressive Christians.
Tuesday 5 April 2016
Sunday 3 April 2016
Denny, of the local YMCA will lead us in a discussion about what it means to be both Christian and inclusive. This is what the YMCA claims on its websites to be. Church goers have long moaned about people not coming in and this only shows how naive they are in focussing on getting people through the doors for a fixed meeting. Being conversations and dialogue without power or hidden agenda and there is no lack of interest in spirituality. The freedom and difference that Jesus makes to all sense and meaning is a different approach from that of getting people onto cold church seats.
Wednesday 23 March 2016
Faith as being, not belief
Monday 21 March 2016
Quaker Faith and Practice A CD from Exeter PCN meeting about the history of Quakerism and its members' variety of theological perspectives, focussing on a way of life rather than assent to forms of words or creeds. In addition to listening to the CD & discussion it is proposed that we allow time for discussion on the future programme. Hopefully we will be able to establish an outline programme with dates of meetings through to December this year.
Monday 21 March 2016
This meeting falls during Holy Week and Sue Goddard will facilitate discussion on the way stories and myth have such impact, even as with some of those from the scriptures, we do not take them as literally true or historically accurate. Sue is asking if people could share which secular stories or myths whether from literature, poetry or film speak to you and to try and tease out why and discuss this in the context of exploring the Christian story.
Friday 18 March 2016
Wednesday 16 March 2016
A general discussion
Tuesday 15 March 2016
Tuesday 15 March 2016
A continuation of our study of Living The Questions.
Monday 7 March 2016
Sunday 6 March 2016
This is the title of a book by Jonathan Sacks, dealing with religious violence. We shall examine some of the attitudes and thinking of religious people, rather than actions, which has led to violence. We shall examine some of the Genesis stories which show the case against religious violence and how too often the Old Testament has been wrongly interpreted. We shall also refer to the teaching of Jesus.
Saturday 5 March 2016
Day conference on Exploring Worship: Why and How ("Reaching Beyond Our Grasp"). A challenging listening opportunity. For information download the Event Flyer.
Tuesday 1 March 2016
Each member is asked to give a short talk on a saint
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