Monday 28 July – Sunday 3 August For the old or young; the seasoned gossip or the blossoming bard. Intended for all interested participants, this is for you and requires no prior knowledge. Julie Brake will ensure that you leave us with a new language.Nid ydynt yn credu i ni? Gweler er eich hunan.’ All …
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Friday 18 – Sunday 20 July Gladstone’s Library, a national memorial to the Grand Old Man, is the perfect setting for the annual colloquium for scholars and Gladstone enthusiasts. This weekend includes a trip to Gladstone’s Temple of Peace at Hawarden Castle. Tickets: Fully inclusive price: £168 – £188 residential/ £98 non-residential
Friday 4 – Sunday 6 July Does liberal theology have a future? Or is it a concept that has had its time? Ian Bradley, Garry Dorrien, Peter Francis, Martyn Percy, Keith Ward and Linda Woodhead investigate how we can re-present liberal theology for the 21st Century.Liberal Christianity has an honorable history but does it …
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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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