Saturday 5 February 2022
All are welcome to join us as we learn why non-theists like David Boulton still find a home in religious communities - in his case the Quakers.
Saturday 5 February 2022
Saturday 5th February 2022
10.30-12.30
Anne will be giving two 20 minute talks online with discussion afterwards. They are
The loss and the recovery of the feminine principle
and
What was Jesus’ essential teaching and how can it be recovered?
Tuesday 1 February 2022
This is meeting in our series of events where we are looking at what the future might hold for Christianity in the 21st Century
Friday 28 January 2022
Thursday 27 January 2022
Pete Brazier is a Methodist minister in Leeds; studied BA Visual & Performing Arts in Brighton, MA Theology & Ministry in Durham, UK, and at Duke, US; a songwriter and fractal theologian. Pete’s talk, linked to his book, ‘Sex, Sexuality, and gender in the Old Testament: A Journey of words in relationship’ will explore the question, ‘Why bother with what the Old Testament has to say about Sex?’, sharing some of the discoveries from his journey and speaking about why a deeper analysis of the biblical language associated with these issues may help the conversations we are having today.
Wednesday 26 January 2022
We will be refreshing our viewing of 3 of the Made of Stories clips that we previously viewed on zoom.
Thursday 13 January 2022
The Revd Canon Brian Mountford was Fellow and Chaplain of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, before becoming Vicar of the University Church, Oxford from 1986-2016. He has been Chaplain of St Hilda's since 1989 and conducts worship in the Chapel on one day each week in term. The 'Chaplain's Chat' is a termly meeting with a visiting speaker when issues in public theology are discussed.
Canon Mountford is Publisher at Large for the 'Christian Alternative' imprint of John Hunt Publishing which seeks to promote radical theological ideas and to engage theologically with public issues.
Brian Mountford is writer of the best-selling Christian Atheist - belonging without believing and the anthology, Friday's Child - poems of suffering and redemption. In Church Going Gone, Brian offers, through the story of his own ministry, a fascinating – and – sobering perspective on the sea changes that the Church has undergone in the past fifty years.
For details of the zoom meeting, please email info@pcnmalvern.org.uk
Thursday 13 January 2022 — Sunday 27 February 2022
We will discuss topics central to philosophy (knowledge, mind and body, and free-will) and engage philosophically with topics of very general interest (sex, war, and death).
Tuesday 11 January 2022
"United in Diversity: Unitarianism and Christianity. Louise Reeve, a lay worship leader at Newcastle upon Tyne Unitarians, will lead a discussion introducing the Unitarian approach to spirituality, and how Unitarianism today seeks to explore truths from all sources, whilst respecting and learning from its Christian heritage. This will be a chance for two progressive groups in Newcastle upon Tyne to get to know each other and share our thoughts on liberal spirituality in 2022."
Sunday 9 January 2022
Sunday 9 January 2022
Our subject for Thinking Aloud Allowed this Sunday evening will be the Cosmic Christ and will be based on some of the thinking of Richard Rohr a Franciscan Priest. If you would like to prepare for it there are a couple of videos, both about 30 mins long that you could watch. They can be found via the following links:
https://youtu.be/4LYQQO5uFtA Richard in conversation with a Catholic Priest
https://youtu.be/zLMcZNuJpBc Richard talking to a group followed by comments and questions.
Don't worry if you don't have time to watch before Sunday evening as we will watch part of one of them together then.
Friday 24 December 2021
Tuesday 14 December 2021
Sunday 12 December 2021
Sunday 12 December 2021
Informal and relaxed online discussion. Bring your snack and beverage of choice (optional) See you then. Be in touch for Zoom link
Thursday 9 December 2021
Paula will be reflecting on the challenge of formulating a theological approach to climate change, in the context of international development, in working with churches and other faith groups, and in encouraging personal lifestyle choices. She will pose the particular question: do we have a sufficiently robust theology from which to address the ever-increasing complexities of the current climate crisis?
Dr Paula Clifford has published widely on topics as diverse as medieval French and popular theology. She is author of A Brief History of End Time: Prophecy and Apocalypse, then and now (2016). Having been a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day and teaching Medieval French and Linguistics at the University of Reading and University of Oxford, she spent 13 years working for Christian Aid, first in communications and then as Head of Theology. Paula is now a priest in the Church of England.
For details of the zoom meeting, please email info@pcnmalvern.org.uk
Tuesday 7 December 2021
At this meeting we shall continue our discussions about what being progressive means in terms of both Christianity and other beliefs.
Saturday 4 December 2021 — Friday 3 December 2021
Bishop John Shelby Spong, who died earlier this year, gave us a new vision for the Christian life, which looks for the divine in the giving of love. In so doing he turns away from the supernatural God which men invented to ease their fears. Far from seeking security, Spong say we should embrace insecurity for this is how we can become our fully human selves.
Friday 26 November 2021
We will also have a discussion around the film 'Nathaniel's story', and issues concerning LGBTQ.
Please watch <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wX4BvfsxL8.>
beforehand.
Thursday 25 November 2021
In this session we will take 20 minutes or so exploring some important background information that underpins the assertion that “A text out of context is a pretext!" We can then discuss some of the issues presented. After that we will look in more detail at John 3:16, from my perspective perhaps the most abused, misused and out of context verse in the whole of the Christian Testament: ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” [NRSV, Anglicised]. It has caused division by setting up barriers as to who is “in” and who is “out” of eternal bliss, life everlasting, etc. etc. In preparation for our discussion you might like to consider what this verse means to you? I will then explore this verse so that we can avoid taking this text of out context so that it becomes nothing more than the pretext that forms so much of the pulpit evangelists' misrepresenting of the teaching and life example of Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth. And from the outset I declare that I do take the Bible seriously but not literally! Looking forward to our discussion Thursday.
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