Monday 23 – Friday 27 June ‘History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history that we make today.’ Henry Ford. Professor Lyn Bechtel invites you to take a backward look …
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Friday 23 – Sunday 25 May ‘…For your self firstly, and then if other people want to join in then there we are.’ – R.S. Thomas John G. McEllhenney, author and a long time correspondent with Thomas, offers a fresh insight on the poems of R.S. Thomas in a course which will allude to …
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Friday 25 – 27 April 2014 This hugely successful film course returns to Gladstone’s for the seventeenth outing of this annual film and theology weekend. Over the course of these three days films will be viewed, discussed and reflected upon. To be included: Banard’s The Selfish Giant (2013), Trapero’s White Elephant (2013), Hardy’s The Wicker Man …
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Sunday 23 March 2014 Zia Chaudhry, very much a product of the modern landscape, born in Burnley, Lancashire, moved to Liverpool at the age of seven, and although from a Pakistani background, he is uniquely placed to lead this fascinating study day. A call for mutual understanding. In this one-day workshop Zia Chaudhry, a barrister and active commentator …
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Thursday 20 – Saturday 22 March 2014 When was the last time you thought going to church was dangerous? Once we challenged the status quo; now we mostly defend it. Robin Meyers tells the story of how we forgot where we came from and why we must recover our subversive roots – Desmond Tutu. …
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. E-Courses The Gospel of Thomas for Advent with Cynthia Bourgeault November 30 – December 25, 2013 Led by Cynthia Bourgeault, Mary Ann Brussat Subscribe to this E-Course Back by popular demand! Following last spring’s stunningly successful introductory e-course on the Gospel of Thomas, Cynthia Bourgeault will return this December to …
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E-Courses Advent of the Heart with Father Thomas Keating November 29 – December 25, 2013 Led by Mary Anne Best, Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler, Pamela Begeman Subscribe to this E-Course Fr. Thomas Keating has said that Christianity is the Path of Heartfulness, the path of coming into a deep awareness of the love …
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Canadian Mennonite University 2014 Canadian School of Peacebuilding Come this summer to learn with peacebuilders – local and international, young and old, students, practitioners, and those new to peacebuilding – at the sixth annual Canadian School of Peacebuilding. We invite you to participate in your choice of five-day courses for personal inspiration, professional development, …
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AMI-Quebec (Action on mental illness) 2013 Edith and John Hans Low-Beer Memorial lecture “I am not sick, I don’t need help!” Xavier Amador, PhD Clinical Psycholgist, Founder of the LEAP Institute Thursday, November 7. 2013 7:00 pm Free Admission Oscar Peterson Concert Hall 7141, rue Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC …
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Courage & Renewal® Retreats For details of upcoming Courage & Renewal® programs at Five Oaks please go the bottom of the page. Over the past decade under the guidance of Parker J. Palmer, highly skilled facilitators have created a unique retreat-based approach to renewing personal identity, professional integrity and vocational vitality. Participants seeking personal and professional renewal will expand …
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