A listing of local group meetings appears in the Events Calendar
Saturday 4 May 2019
Join us in Gloucester to hear Stroud based, Neesa Copple who will talk about her faith journey from an early life in the Church of England to a practicing interfaith minister.
Sunday 5 May 2019
Jesus says that the truth will set us free. But it turns out freedom is a surprisingly complex idea. What does it really mean to be free? What kind of freedom do we need in the modern world? How can Christian visions of freedom engage with contrasting ideologies and traditions?
Saturday 18 May 2019
Time out for reflection and recharging our spirits.
Saturday 18 May 2019
Krish Kandiah says that hospitality to the stranger is the key to intimacy with God, and when we answer his call to compassionate action we will find it life-giving.
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.
Wednesday 29 May 2019
Inside our Awakening Universe: The New Cosmic Story and the Meaning of Faith
Thursday 30 May 2019
Christians are taught that God is everywhere, and many of us experience the sacred in unexpected places: in nature, in friends and strangers, in music and the arts. But can we also encounter God in the faith of other people?
Saturday 1 June 2019
Join us in Gloucester where Peter Knight will ask the question, "What do we have that we wish to share with those who have a sense of what Marcus Borg called The More but do not have the Judaeo-Christian narrative?"
Sunday 2 June 2019
Christian Faith and Ecology in an Unfinished Universe
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.
Saturday 8 June 2019
An opportunity to engage with our speakers in a conversation about religion and atheism
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