Kirchentag, 2015

Tuesday 7 July 2015

Location:

Pontprennau Community Church

Speaker:

Ray Vincent

July Meeting

Monday 6 July 2015

Discussion of Val Webb's book, Testing Tradition and Liberating Theology.

Location:

12 Woodrough Drive, Moseley, B13 9EP

Speaker:

Chris Wolfe

Poetry and Spirituality

Sunday 5 July 2015

Nigel will comment on the difference between literal and poetic meaning, read one poem and comment what it might be about. We shall look at a few more poems and see what they might mean for each of us; among the poems chosen will be a couple by R.S.Thomas.

Location:

Friends Meeting House, Miller St. Newcastle under Lyme ST5 1QJ

Speaker:

Nigel Jones

Monthly Meeting - topic t.b.a. shortly

Monday 29 June 2015

Location:

St Mary's Church Hall, Albrighton

Speaker:

Miriam Walton

Looking back and looking forward

Monday 29 June 2015

This is our annual self-review meeting, when we evaluate what has gone well this year, and what we have learned from any event that may have been more challenging. Then we invite members to offer suggestions, thoughts and ideas of what we might incorporate into the ten monthly meetings we plan to have next year..It will be, for the Edinburgh group, an important year, being the tenth anniversary of our launch in May 2006... The evening traditionally ends with a glass of wine (juice also available) and nibbles....All welcome!

Location:

Room 2, Cluny Centre, Morningside, Edinburgh

What’s wrong with the Church of England?

Monday 29 June 2015

Professor Linda Woodhead gives the next Theology and Modernity Lecture at St Brides’ Liverpool.

Location:

St Bride's Church, Percy Street, Liverpool L8

Speaker:

Professor Linda Woodhead

Revelation - Borg’s last chapter

Friday 26 June 2015

Location:

at Olive in central Newbury

Karen Armstrong - Forgiveness and Compassion: Is there a difference?

Tuesday 23 June 2015

This is the Forgiveness Project’s fifth annual lecture. Ms Armstrong will focus on why we must place compassion at the heart of public discourse on religion and morality.

Location:

The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

Speaker:

Karen Armstrong

Awaiting Subject

Tuesday 16 June 2015

Location:

Pontprennau Community Church

Speaker:

Sue O'Hare

Open Meeting-all welcome

Monday 15 June 2015

Questioning Believers meeting. Monday 15th June at 2.15pm At this PCN meeting to be held at 8 Siskin Hill we continue are course of study Of the DVD The Challenge of Jesus. by John Dominic Crossan

Location:

8 Siskin Hill, Oadby. LE2 5PT

Speaker:

Gerald Gardiner

Bishop John Shelby Spong - Walking Forward

Sunday 14 June 2015

“Live fully, love wastefully, dare to be all that you were made to be”. A lecture about where Christians, both inside and outside the church, are now and his vision of the road ahead. There will be the opportunity for questions and discussion.

Location:

Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Place/Claremont Road, Windsor SL4 3AX

Speaker:

Bishop John Shelby Spong

Visit of Jerry McLeese

Saturday 13 June 2015

The current plan is as last circulated, the group will meet at 12 for a 12:30 lunch and the open meeting start at 2pm. The timing will give those who want to go to the bishop's leaving service. time to do so.

Location:

Christchurch Abbeydale

Speaker:

Discussion

Bishop Jack Spong - Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy

Thursday 11 June 2015

If one could read Matthew’s Gospel with Jewish eyes, we would know that many of the stories were not written to be understood literally, but to be read as Jewish stories fulfilling the Scriptures.

Location:

Cairns Church, 11 Buchanan Street, Milngavie, G62 8AW

Speaker:

Bishop Jack Spong

June meeting: Living the Questions DVD: Debunking the Rapture

Thursday 11 June 2015

A discussion of the Living the Questions notes and DVD on "Debunking the rapture"

Location:

North Worcestershire: exact venue to be decided. Contact Tessa for details.

Speaker:

Group discussion

The Imam and the Pastor

Sunday 7 June 2015

Speaker:

Nigel Jones

Regular Discussion Meeting

Tuesday 2 June 2015

Location:

All Saints Methodist Church, Appleford Drive, Abingdon, OX14 2AQ

God and the Doctor

Tuesday 2 June 2015

Location:

Pontprennau Community Church

Speaker:

Dr Jane Hexter

Monthly Meeting

Monday 1 June 2015

Brian Parr will lead us in a discussion of Bishop Spong's article on The Sermon on the Mount (24 October 2013)

Location:

12 Woodrough Drive, Moseley, B13 9EP

Speaker:

Brian Parr

Doubt, God and Virgin ears

Friday 29 May 2015

Location:

at Sue in Kintbury

Group monthly meeting

Wednesday 27 May 2015

"Am I my sibling's keeper?" An overview of the work of Samaritans as an application of Christian principles in a secular setting.

Location:

Heaton Moor United church