Progressive Voices is the magazine of our network and we encourage contributions from members and fellow travellers.

The Regional Development Worker will cover the North West of England to start in September. The post is full time (35 hours per week) with a salary of £20-22,000 depending on experience. The Regional Development Worker will be joining a small dynamic staff team, developing our work with students in the North West of England. The successful candidate will expand our network of student groups and link churches, organise events, deliver training and work with students, local churches and chaplaincies to improve and develop student outreach and engagement in the region. Experience of Christian student work within a church or chaplaincy context would be an advantage.

Dear friends across the PCN membership

As you know our administration team now has a different configuration in that Sarah Guilfoyle is now our administrator and Andy Vivian, whose retirement we marked at our AGM, is continuing in a voluntary capacity to serve the network as the web editor. I am sure, like me, you are grateful for such a strong and competent team, always ready to help members and trustees.

The AGM at Leeds gave us an opportunity to thank retiring trustees Angela, John and Robin, and to formally elect Gareth, our treasurer as an elected trustee and Dave our PV editor. It was very good to be in the Mill Hill Unitarian Church, to meet its minister (a PCN member) and to learn of their city centre work. We were grateful for the presentation on inequality in our society by Professor Rich Harris and his helpful slides of statistics can be found here on the PCN website. Good too to watch the film The Divide. If you haven’t yet seen the film, do watch out for local screenings – they can be found on www. thedividedocumentary.com

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People by the millions are migrating out of traditional religion - some into secularism, some into experimental forms of non-religious spirituality. But even within religious communities, people are on the move, migrating in exciting new directions.

Although this poem was written almost fifty years ago, the message has a vibrant resonance with modern progressive Christian thinking. Carter was a man ahead of his time, a rebel, who's hymns have finally reached the mainstream but who's poetry remains neglected.

The Holy Box, from the collection Love More or Less, was first published by Stainer and Bell in 1971.

The screening, this Saturday, is part of An Unequal Society​: What must Christians Do?, a PCN day event taking place in Leeds. All are welcome, you can stay for just the film or take part in discussions afterwards. The film will be introduced by Professor Richard Harris, professor of Social Geography at Bristol University.

Brian McLaren argues for a new kind of Christianity. For centuries, Christianity has presented itself as a system of beliefs. That system of beliefs has supported a wide range of unintended consequences - from colonialism to environmental destruction, from subordination of women to stigmatization of LGBT people. What would it mean for Christians to rediscover their faith - not as a system of beliefs, but as a just and generous way of life, rooted in contemplation and expressed in action, that makes amends for its mistakes, and is dedicated creating a beloved community for all? ...

This year's SCM appeal is being match funded – every £1 you give will be matched by a charitable trust. PCN welcomes the work that SCM does in universities and colleges and we encourage those who like PCN to think about donating to SCM.

The Library is situated in Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire CH5 3DF. The closing dates for these vacancies are 14th and 15th February 2016, respectively.

Reception hours are 8:30am until 5:00pm seven days a week. Phone: 01244 532350. Email: enquiries@gladlib.org. The email addresses for applications are given below, following each job description.

The rest of this entry has been written by Gladstone's Library

The new group in Gainford is being launched on Tuesday 2nd February by Neil Russell, a retired priest and former Honorary Canon of Lincoln. It arises out of interest expressed by non Christians in the village as well as local church members. The group is to be called QF (Questions of faith) and will introduce members to progressive theology, with the help of DVDs and speakers. The first meeting is at 4, The Padocks, Gainford, DL2 3GA and starts at 7.30pm.

Dear Sir,

In the statement following their meeting, the Primates of the Anglican Communion have expressed their profound sorrow for the deep hurt caused within the Church towards people on the basis of their sexual orientation and they affirm that God’s love for every human being is the same regardless of their sexuality....

This is a great honour to have her present and she will also be speaking about her hopes for the foundation. Marianne and Diana are clearly close friends and it is Diana who has let me know of Marianne’s intentions. Marianne will be travelling over 4,800 miles to meet us. I hope you might be able to make the rather shorter journey to Birmingham on that day, so that together we can offer not only our condolences but also our gratitude to Marianne for all that Marcus was and said and wrote.

Tickets for the event are available in the PCN Britain shop. Finding God in the World - A Spiritual Revolution

You can add your name retrospectively to the list of signatories to the Open Letter by going to the special website set up for this purpose. (Putting your name in the comment section below will not achieve this purpose.)

This is the text of the letter with the original 105 signatories

Thursday February 4th sees the start of a second PCN group in West Sussex. The Billingshurst group will meet on the first Thursday of every month in ‘The Chapel at Billingshurst’ at 8pm.

At their inaugural meeting the group will discuss PCN’s Eight Points, newly revised in 2015, and also look at different approaches to meditation. The meeting will endeavour draft out plans for future meetings depending on the interests of those present. The convenor, Stuart Coupe, says the group is open to all.

St Michael's church s situated in the heart of Melbourne​. For further information and a job spec please click on the link below.

The closing date for applications is the 19^th February, 2016.