CRUCIBLE: After Christendom & Restoring Hope: 10-11 Nov 2012

The Crucible Course is organised by Anabaptist Network partners Urban Expression  (www.urbanexpression.org.uk) and offers a choice of two streams during each of its three week-ends.  Contributors in this first week-end include Ann Morisy, Stuart Murray Williams, Juliet Kilpin, Andrew Grinnell, Joe Baker, Pete Dominey & Alex Alexander.  Book online at www.cruciblecourse.org.uk.

Prophetic Voices – Belfast: Friday 9 November

BOOK NOW: Reading the Bible After Christendom: Sat 15 September, Portsmouth

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Greenbelt contributions from Anabaptist Network

Going to Greenbelt this week-end?  

The following individuals/organisations connected with the Anabaptist Network are contributing at Greenbelt this year.  Why not pay them a visit?

Andrew Francis – talk: Hospitality & Community – Friday, 17:00, Jenin

Andrew Francis (as one of a team): Class Acts – Friday, 18:30, Galilee

SPEAK – Mortgaging the garden of Eden? – Saturday, 17:00, eden

David Nussbaum – talk: ‘Found & Lost’: Recovering Paradise – Sunday, 12:30, eden

Wood Green Mennonite Church – mini-talk: Walking church: what we are learning – Sunday, 13:00, G-Stage

Veronica Zundel (as one of a team) – talk: Paradise Postponed; Sunday, 15:30, Jenin

SPEAK – Is it just for some to simply eat whilst others do the growing? Sunday, 17:00, eden

Wood Green Mennonite Church – worship: A taste of walking church – Monday, 10:30, starting in garden @ eden

Karen Stallard and Stuart Murray Williams – talk/seminar: The Naked Anabaptist – Monday, 12:30, Bethany

SPEAK (with others) – Living Library Lunch: The world around you – Monday, 12:30, Shed (youth venue)

SPEAK – Protest Song Open Mic – Monday, 15:00, Roots

SPEAK – How should we source our daily bread? Monday, 17:00, eden

& look out for the SPEAK tipi on the campsite, hosting “Silent Disorder”

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Beyond Institution – Disorganised Religion? Thursday 9 August

We live in an era where people are inquisitive about spirituality, but hugely distrustful or even hostile towards ‘organised religion’, especially in its Christian forms.

But there are strong anti-institutional and non-hierarchical traditions in Christianity and beyond.

Can Anabaptists, Quakers, Nonconformists and loyal dissenters from within the major streams of Christianity offer a new vision of faith and an alternative to top-down religion?

Join the ‘vast minority’ at the Festival of Spirituality and Peace in Edinburgh (http://festivalofspirituality.blogspot.co.uk/) to discuss what a radical reformation in the Church has to offer – and how this relates to the wider demography of religious and belief-based change in a globalising world.

The event takes place on Thursday 9 August, from 5.45pm – 7pm, at St John’s (Venue 127), corner of Princes Street and Lothian Road, Edinburgh. £6.50 (£4.50 concessions).

Speakers: Ian Milligan, from Exploring Anabaptism in Scotland (http://anabaptismscotland.blogspot.co.uk/) and the Bert community in Glasgow; Simon Barrow, co-director of Ekklesia and former global mission secretary for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland; and Michael Marten, co-founder of the ‘Critical Religion’ research group (http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/) at the University of Stirling. In partnership with the Iona Community (http://www.iona.org.uk/) and Ekklesia.

* Book now via the Hub: http://www.hubtickets.co.uk/loader.asp?target=show.asp?shcode=4899

* Festival of Spirituality and Peace on Ekklesia: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/festivalofspirituality

Celebrating Dissent: Anabaptists, Baptists & Bristolians

Reading the Bible After Christendom: Sat 3 November, London

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Reading the Bible After Christendom: Sat 13 October, Manchester

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Reading the Bible After Christendom: Sat 15 September, Portsmouth

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Peace, Justice & the Kingdom of God

A day conference with Ash Barker from Urban Neighbours of Hope in Birmingham initiated by several agencies and supported by the Anabaptist Network & Urban Expression.

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