http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/events/2012/06/15/the-chancellor-s-lecture-moral-leadership-in-changing-times-by-giles-fraser Lecture at Edge Hill University om 15th June by Giles Fraser - click the link to find out more and register for a free invitation.

http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/events/2012/06/15/the-chancellor-s-lecture-moral-leadership-in-changing-times-by-giles-fraser

Lecture at Edge Hill University om 15th June by Giles Fraser - click the link to find out more and register for a free invitation.

“Eclipsing Empire” Paul, Rome and the Kingdom of God. Our new Living the Questions DVD course begins on Thursday 7th June. Join preeminent New Testament scholars Marcus Borg and Dominic Crossan on location in Turkey as they trace the Apostle Paul’s footsteps throughout the Roman Empire. This course explores fresh insights into Paul’s message of the Kingdom of God, its challenge to Roman imperial theology, and the apostle’s radical relevance for today. Mail guy.elsmore@yahoo.co.uk if you are interested in joining the course.

“Eclipsing Empire” Paul, Rome and the Kingdom of God. Our new Living the Questions DVD course begins on Thursday 7th June. Join preeminent New Testament scholars Marcus Borg and Dominic Crossan on location in Turkey as they trace the Apostle Paul’s footsteps throughout the Roman Empire.

This course explores fresh insights into Paul’s message of the Kingdom of God, its challenge to Roman imperial theology, and the apostle’s radical relevance for today.

Mail guy.elsmore@yahoo.co.uk if you are interested in joining the course.

Sunday Notices 27th May

A great night of song, fun and food with the iChoir at St Bride’s tonight.

A great night of song, fun and food with the iChoir at St Bride’s tonight.

The Three Faces of God… a new community art installation at St Bride’s

The Three Faces of God… a new community art installation at St Bride’s

Mosque Visit this Sunday

Hikmah invites us to go and visit her mosque, after the service at St Bride’s on Sunday 27th May. Women need to bring a head scarf with them to wear when visiting the mosque.
Hikmah can only take women into the mosque. If any men would like to visit, please let Guy know so he can arrange this with Hikmah.

Click the picture to download details of the pilgrimage to Bardsey we are planning

Click the picture to download details of the pilgrimage to Bardsey we are planning

We’re working on setting up “Godly Play” at St Bride’s. Godly play is based on the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori Maria Montessori (1870-1952) opened her first school in 1907. She was a complex, strong, creative and very religious human being, with a deep interest in religious education.   ‘Many who haven’t understood me think that I’m a sentimental romantic … I am a rigorous scientific investigator, not a literary idealist like Rousseau. I seek to discover the adult in the child, to see in her/him the true human spirit, the design of the Creator: the scientific and religious truth. It is to this end that I apply my method of study, which respects human nature. I don’t need to teach anything to children: it is they who, placed in a favourable environment, teach me, reveal to me spiritual secrets as long as their souls have not been deformed.’   Kramer, R. (1976) Maria Montessori. New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons Click on the photo above to download an article by Dr Rebecca Nye “In Godly Play, Children Discover Who God is”

We’re working on setting up “Godly Play” at St Bride’s.
Godly play is based on the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori (1870-1952) opened her first school in 1907. She was a complex, strong, creative and very religious human being, with a deep interest in religious education.
 
‘Many who haven’t understood me think that I’m a sentimental romantic … I am a rigorous scientific investigator, not a literary idealist like Rousseau. I seek to discover the adult in the child, to see in her/him the true human spirit, the design of the Creator: the scientific and religious truth. It is to this end that I apply my method of study, which respects human nature. I don’t need to teach anything to children: it is they who, placed in a favourable environment, teach me, reveal to me spiritual secrets as long as their souls have not been deformed.’
 
Kramer, R. (1976) Maria Montessori. New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons
Click on the photo above to download an article by Dr Rebecca Nye “In Godly Play, Children Discover Who God is”

Click to download St Bride's Notices for 20th May 2012

“Quote of the day from tonight’s Living the Questions course: “We’d rather have a controlled dead God than a lively chaotic God – we have a funeral for Jesus every Sunday.”
Yvette Flunder

Click here to download St Bride's notices for Sunday 13th May 2012

Click the notice to download a PDF copy to your computer

Click the notice to download a PDF copy to your computer

Congratulations Warren and Kieran! UK’s first Civil Partnership on religious premises.

Congratulations Warren and Kieran! UK’s first Civil Partnership on religious premises.

A wonderful blessing by John O’Donaghue, quoted in last week’s session on The Gospel and the Environment.

A wonderful blessing by John O’Donaghue, quoted in last week’s session on The Gospel and the Environment.

It’s the anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore’s birth today - here’s some quotes to celebrate!

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Fundamentalism tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.