Saturday 1 April 2017 — Monday 1 May 2017
"The Genocide Card in Your Back Pocket" is the title of this chapter. All welcome, whether you've read the chapter of not.
Friday 31 March 2017
Tuesday 28 March 2017
A lecture on DVD about the Exodus from Egypt followed by discussion.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Beyond Belief's first meeting of 2017 is on the theme "What is Progressive Religion?" and our evening will be led by Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah from the Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue. No cost, but please buy drinks (and food if required) from the pub who do not charge us for use of their upstairs room. Gather at around 7 pm to get refreshments, ready to start at 7.30 pm. Everyone welcome.
Monday 27 March 2017
Having travelled in most of the countries in the Middle East in less fraught times and having been to Israel/Palestine/Jordan/Sinai once every two years the Bishop thought that being the Diocesan Interfaith Adviser would keep me out of mischief in retirement. So, I liaise with interfaith groups in the Welsh Marches and the West Midlands. The initial work of telling village and town groups about the faiths of those who have come to live among us has passed and now it is dealing with the faiths working together, identifying common ground and learning to respect differences and the significance of those differences. With the leader of the local mosque I have offered to listen to and reflect on the refugees who are coming among us. I am still involved with some of those charities giving help to the suffering peoples of Israel/Palestine. I see the purpose of my visit to your group as sharing information about the Sikh faith - very different from my previous visit and much less contentious. Also looking at their place in Western society. I would hope that the visit would stimulate the group, if the people who belong are unfamiliar with Sikh life, to arrange a visit to somewhere like B'ham. That would be both enlightening and enjoyable.
Monday 27 March 2017
We plan to tackle some of the issues that are not often raised in our church communities - some of the very difficult things we meet on our journey through life and on our journey of faith. The evening will take the form of an interactive discussion, and we invite you to come along to share, to listen, to engage, and to learn from one another....
Saturday 25 March 2017
Brighthelm Progressive Christians are exploring 'A Progressive Lent' with our afternoon gathering "Lent or Given? - Looking for life on the way to Easter". Worship and discussion: looking at Lent without wallowing in sin or mortifying the flesh - looking for the gift of life in the wilderness. Everyone welcome
Thursday 23 March 2017
“Whether we consider ourselves mature people of faith or absolute beginners many of us struggle with the question of how to pray. Magdalen Smith explores the question of what we are trying to do when we pray and develops this by looking at a variety of ideas which are and can be embedded in our own lived-out lives. Concepts like ‘still’, ‘gaze’, ‘flux’, ‘thank’, ‘dark’ and ‘shed’ explore traditional concepts of existential holy living with a contemporary spin, which simultaneously become prophetic ways of defining a Christian identity in both a secular and spiritually inquisitive age.”
Wednesday 22 March 2017
Love Free or Die. A film on DVD about Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal church
Tuesday 21 March 2017
Rev Charlotte Moss from Argoed Baptist church will be leading.
Monday 20 March 2017 — Monday 26 June 2017
Living the Questions is a "DVD based curriculum ... designed to help people wrestle with the relevance of Christianity in the 21st century."
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Care for the environment is deeply biblical.
Monday 13 March 2017
David Charles-Edwards will facilitate consideration of this issue especially in relation to sexuality which alienates so many contemporary people. Please email the convenor if you hope to attend as two Church Times articles have been circulated to regular members to read beforehand and she can send you these. This topic was chosen partly by reflecting on these articles.Since then there has been coverage of the current debate in the C of E over the Bishops report following the shared conversations, and talk of radical inclusiveness,therefore our discussions may enable us to contribute to other local discussions that may be going on.
Tuesday 7 March 2017
The discussion will focus on the the needs of Christian ministry in the 21st century.
Tuesday 7 March 2017
"Emerging Vision Of Religion After John Shelby Spong" by Reverend Martin Wolfe The video runs for half an hour which will give us plenty of time to discuss afterwards.
Monday 6 March 2017
Last month three readers presented three books and provided vigorous discussion all round. This month we'll do the same.
Sunday 5 March 2017
More details later.
Thursday 2 March 2017
Tuesday 28 February 2017
A fascinating look at child sacrifice in the O.T. - Professor Ziony Zevil will have you reading the O.T. in a whole new way.
Monday 27 February 2017
Discussion on 'Beyond Belief' by Hugh Mackay
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