Monthly meeting February
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Continuing with our current book
- Location:
- The Grove pub, Bellamy Road, Balham
- Speaker:
- Group members
- Host:
- Balham, South London Group
Upcoming Events
A listing of local group meetings appears in the Events Calendar
“Singing Hymns again for the first time”.
Saturday 2 March 2019
“Singing Hymns again for the first time”. - familiar tunes with new words. Enjoy and celebrate singing together.
- Location:
- St Nicholas church Potterspury NN12 7PU
- Speaker:
- Adrian Alker PCN Chair, Anne Paget trained in music and drama, and Andy Thomas former Director of Music at St John's, Waterloo
- Host:
- South Cleley Benefice
The Merciful Humility of God with Jane Williams
Sunday 3 March 2019
Jane Williams will explore how God works for our salvation in ways so gentle, so subtle and so apparently vulnerable that it is easy to overlook their force, calling us to walk in the paths of humility for our own sake and for the sake of the world.
- Location:
- St Paul's, London
Wondering and Wandering
Friday 8 March 2019 — Sunday 10 March 2019
Join students and recent graduates from around the country for SCM annual gathering at Hebron Hall, Dinas Powys near Cardiff!
We’ll be spending the weekend exploring the themes of pilgrimage and prayer and looking at how we can listen to God and speak out in faith.
We’re super pleased to announce that Amanda Mukwashi, the CEO of Christian Aid, will be our headline speaker on the Saturday! She will be exploring what the themes of prayer and pilgrimage have meant to her in light of her experiences. Read more about her and our other speakers.
Workshops will fall into two streams, “I will speak” and “I will listen”. We’re really glad to have Jessica Dalton from Christian Soliarity Worldwide joining us to explore how to lobby for one of the workshops!
More details to follow, including Bible Study leader, more workshop details and how you can get involved through the AGM which will be happening on the Sunday Morning.
Cost of the ticket includes food and a bed in a shared room. There are travel bursaries of up to £50 available - please do make use of these! We’ll be asking what your travel plans are in order to join you up with others who may be travelling from your area to make it as easy as possible for as many as possible to come along.
Book now to secure your place!
- Location:
- Hebron Hall Christian Centre Cross Common Road Dinas Powys Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 4YB
- Speaker:
- Amanda Mukwashi, the CEO of Christian Aid
- Host:
- SCM
Stories around an Open Table - ecumenical Christian worship communities committed to LGBT inclusion March 2019
Saturday 9 March 2019
inviting Open Table members and friends to tell their stories about reconciling gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or spirituality
- Location:
- St Bride's Liverpool
Perceptions of Christianity
Tuesday 12 March 2019
Richard will speak about the perceptions people of different faiths have of Christianity and responses from five Christians. He will introduce his newly published book, 'Perceptions of Christianity'.
- Location:
- St Thomas the Martyr Church, Haymarket, Newcastle
- Speaker:
- Richard Tetlow
- Host:
- Newcastle (on Tyne) Group
Love Is His Meaning: Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus
Wednesday 13 March 2019
This event is an open event for members and friends of the Progressive Christianity Network and the general public.
- Location:
- Trinity Church, Conduit Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DU
- Speaker:
- Professor Keith Ward
- Host:
- Abingdon Group
Love is His Meaning - Keith Ward (Formerly Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford)
Wednesday 13 March 2019
- Location:
- Trinity Church Conduit Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DU
- Speaker:
- Keith Ward (Formerly Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford)
- Host:
- Abingdon PCN
The Future of Faith lecture series - Alastair McIntosh
Saturday 23 March 2019
‘Towards Third Millennium Christianity: Activism, Nonviolence and the Mystical Imperative’
- Location:
- Rawtenstall Unitarian Church and Unity Centre, Bank Street, Rawtenstall. Rossendale BB4 7QY. Lancashire.
- Speaker:
- Alastair McIntosh
- Host:
- Unitarians of the Lancashire Collaborative Ministry and Pendle Hill Quakers. Supported by the Progressive Christianity Network
Imagining Peace with Pádraig Ó Tuama at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Limehouse
Saturday 30 March 2019
2018 was the centenary of the end of the First World War - ‘the war to end all wars’. Since then, there has not been a single day when the world has been at peace. This day explores why.
- Location:
- Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Limehouse, East London (www.rfsk.org.uk)
- Speaker:
- Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Host:
- St Paul's, London
PCN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Saturday 6 April 2019
This year the PCN annual meeting will return to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, thanks to the generosity of the chaplaincy team there.
The meeting gives an opportunity to hear about and discuss the work of PCN over the past year and to look ahead to our programme of events and projects. We particularly hope that members and group co-ordinators will join us and share news from their regions. We will be presented with the accounts and elect trustees.
- Location:
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2TH
- Speaker:
- 1.45pm ‘THE INNER LEVEL’ Talk and Discussion : Richard Wilkinson
- Host:
- PCN Britain
Barbara Brown Taylor to visit Cornwall
Friday 24 May 2019 — Monday 27 May 2019
Barbara Brown Taylor will be with us for the weekend of May 24th - 27th next year (2019). Initial programme so far. Saturday 25th. 10:30 - 13:00 Preachers Workshop (details to follow). Saturday 25th. 7:00pm for 7:30pm. Truro Cathedral. Barbara will speak to her latest book Holy Envy, Finding God in the Faith of Others. Admission £5.00 Sunday 26th. Truro Cathedral. Barbara will preach at the 10:00 Eucharist followed by coffee and questions. Further details to follow so please email me if you wish to be kept informed of developments.
- Location:
- Truro
- Speaker:
- Barbara Brown Taylor
- Host:
- Cornwall Group
Awakening to a New Consciousness Annual Lecture @ Winchester University - Prof John F Haught
Wednesday 29 May 2019
Inside our Awakening Universe: The New Cosmic Story and the Meaning of Faith
- Location:
- Winchester University
- Speaker:
- Professor John F Haught, Georgetown University, USA
- Host:
- The Institute for Theological Partnerships in association with Living Spirituality Connections
Awakening to a New Consciousness Annual Lecture - @ St James’, Piccadilly – Prof John F Haught
Sunday 2 June 2019
Christian Faith and Ecology in an Unfinished Universe
- Location:
- St James' Piccadilly
- Speaker:
- Professor John F Haught, Georgetown University, USA
- Host:
- The Institute for Theological Partnerships in association with Living Spirituality Connections
Human Flourishing on a Flourishing Earth. Finding a way together.
Saturday 8 June 2019
From her work in the Ecuadorian Amazon, award-winning environmentalist Nicola Peel will show examples of solutions to environmental problems which remedy the issues, and enable communities to flourish.
- Location:
- Brighthelm, Brighton BN1 1YD (near the station)
- Speaker:
- Keynote speaker: Nicola Peel
- Host:
- Brighthelm Centre, Earth Church, Living Spirituality Connections and Spirit of Peace.
‘Religion and Atheism - Beyond the Divide?’
Saturday 8 June 2019
An opportunity to engage with our speakers in a conversation about religion and atheism
- Location:
- The French Protestant Church of London Soho Square, London W1D 3QD
- Speaker:
- Julian Baggini, Fiona Ellis, Harriet Harris, Richard Holloway
- Host:
- PCN Britain
SOF NETWORK 32nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Tuesday 23 July 2019 — Thursday 25 July 2019
Speakers
Ernie Rea, Presenter of Radio 4 Beyond Belief, Avril Robarts, Yoga teacher and specialist in Indian spirituality, Stephen Williams, Retired probation officer and SOF treasurer
- Location:
- University of Leicester, Stamford Court Conference Centre
- Speaker:
- Ernie Rea, Avril Robarts, , Stephen Williams
Life Death and Everything - Free to Believe
Monday 9 September 2019 — Thursday 12 September 2019
This year’s reading party is at Bishop Woodford House in the delightful old Cathedral town of Ely, 15 miles from Cambridge and close to the Fens. As always, the programme gives time to enjoy as well as to relax.
The conference is from Monday September 9th-Thursday 12t.h and costs £255 ensuite. There are a small number of non-ensuite rooms at £235.
The conference will be led by Anne Lewitt, URC minister at Petworth, Pulborough and Billingsworth, and Free to Believe chair, Martin Camroux. |
The reading party offers a chance to think about the meaning of our lives from two different perspectives, both open-minded and critical and reflective, but one mostly no longer believing in God the other still believing.
- Location:
- Bishop Woodford House, Ely
- Speaker:
- Anne Lewitt, URC minister at Petworth, Pulborough and Billingsworth, and Free to Believe chair, Martin Camroux.