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‘The Beatitudes’ Cycle
For this gathering cycle we wanted to focus on the practical (and deeply challenging!) wisdom teaching of Jesus in the gospels and in particular on the sayings known as the ‘Beatitudes’ (such as...
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‘The Good Life’ Cycle
Our current cycle is an exploration of the theme ‘The Good Life’. What does it mean for life to be ‘good’? What does it take to live life well? What difference does following in the way of Christ make...
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‘Participating in God’ Cycle
Our latest cycle of gatherings is entitled ‘Participating in God’. At this time of year the church turns its attention to the sense it has had since its earliest days that God is experienced as a...
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‘Poets and Prophets’ Cycle
Our cycle of gatherings on the theme of ‘Poets & Prophets’ will explore the place of the poetic imagination in spirituality. Many of us are deeply influenced by various poets and their work has a...
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‘Lost and Found’
Our next gathering cycle begins in the New Year. The theme is ‘Lost and Found’ and the focus will be on the ebb and flow of our spiritual lives, how our initial experience of finding faith often seems...
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‘Falling Down’ cycle
Beginning on Sunday 26th February, and to tie in with the season of lent (see below), our new gathering cycle, ‘Falling Down’, will explore the significance of failure in the spiritual life. Failure...
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‘Into the Music’ Gathering Cycle
Our new gathering cycle – beginning Sunday 22nd April – is called ‘Into the Music’. We will be exploring the relationship between music and spirituality and asking why music seems to be such a...
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‘What is the point in going to church?’– gathering cycle
Our new gathering cycle (beginning Sunday 17th June) is entitled ‘What is the point in going to church?’ – a question all of us must have asked at one point or another on our faith journey! For many...
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The Good Book?
Our latest gathering cycle is ‘The Good Book?’ We will be exploring how to read scripture wisely and sensitively in today’s world. Many of us came to faith in contexts where the bible was received...
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‘Walking Wounded’ Gathering Cycle
‘Walking Wounded’ is the name of our gathering cycle for the new year – our first in 2013. We will be exploring our understanding of healing and wholeness. Healing is a big deal in many churches but...
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‘Enough Already?’ Gathering Cycle
We are perhaps used to approaching the season of Lent primarily from quite a personal perspective but what happens when we consider some of the great lenten themes – self denial, repentance etc. –...
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‘Living Joy’ cycle
After the solemnity of Lent our next cycle will be taking a look at how we can cultivate a deeper sense of joy in our lives.We want to focus on finding joy in the everyday not just in the high or low...
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‘Songs in the key of life’
Our next gathering cycle focuses our attention on the Psalms – the ancient songbook of the Judeo-Christian traditions – where we find expressed a vast array of human emotions. We will be looking at...
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‘A Further Shore’
Our gathering cycle for Autumn 2013 is entitled ‘A Further Shore’. We will be exploring the important themes of death and dying, saints, the afterlife, ‘judgement’, heaven and hell etc. These are...
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‘Elemental’
Our latest gathering cycle focuses on faith as an earthy, embodied thing and also looks at how scientific enquiry can deepen spirituality. Our guest speaker for the cycle is Professor Justin Wark –...
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‘Toolkit’
‘Toolkit’ is our new gathering cycle for Lent 2014. Lent is often seen as a time to refocus our spiritual practice and give ourselves afresh to prayer. But oftentimes we need to find new ways to pray...
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‘Spirituality of Work’
We are all engaged in work of some form. Whether that’s paid work (i.e. what we traditionally call ‘work’) or unpaid work, voluntary work, work in the home, the work of parenting etc. All of us are...
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‘Coming Home’
We are a community with the name ‘Home’ but it’s a word, an idea, a concept, that we’ve never really explored. What do we mean by that word? What is home? Where does our sense of home come from? If we...
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‘Voices from the Margins’
The ‘minor’ prophets of the Old Testament – you know, all those tiny books we find it almost impossible to locate in the bible without using the index – offer a fascinating and at often times deeply...
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‘At Your Leisure’
After our recent gathering cycle ‘A Spirituality of Work’ we felt it would be good to spend some time focussing on play and leisure. This is something important but often not something we give much...
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