A listing of local group meetings appears in the Events Calendar
Tuesday 2 July 2019
In some people’s lives there is a moment when something goes wrong, when they do something very bad, something that poisons their life for good.
Sunday 7 July 2019
The Bible visualises a new heaven and a new earth with people of every language and nation, so why are all the saints in our paintings and stained glass windows white? The bias in the church’s storytelling means that many are surprised to discover that St Augustine is North African and St George is an immigrant with Turkish and Palestinian parents.
Tuesday 9 July 2019
What security is there in the current world situation? How can we re-organise to improve security for all? This is an event put on in conjunction with Tavistock Peace Action Group.
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
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.
Saturday 5 October 2019
On The Splash of Words (2016), the poet Imtiaz Dharker said “Dipping in to this book, the spirit is cleansed in the sparkle of language”, and from Andrew Motion: “Mark Oakley has a strong sense of language as sacrament, a sharp eye for telling phrases and a warm heart with which to return echoes”.
we look forward to listening to what our speaker has to say
Saturday 9 November 2019
A day conference examining the themes of Bonhoeffer’s work and what it can say to us in today’s world.