Church of The Ascension

WELCOME to the parish church of Stirchley, Birmingham


It is not too late to book

for our February conference

"Sexuality and Human Flourishing"

A Day Conference to explore and celebrate our relationship with God, with each other, and with our inner selves

 

All are welcome

 

Saturday February 6th 2010

10.00 am to 4.30 pm

 

Church of the Ascension, Stirchley, Birmingham

 

Keynote speakers:

Arnold Browne - The Scriptures

and Sexual Diversity

 

Alison Webster  -Sexual Diversity and the Human Journey

 

The aim of this conference is to create a safe and holy space in which we can explore the themes of human sexuality, faith, and relationships, through listening, reflection and discussion. What is it about our sexuality that informs and expresses the nature of our humanity and our relationship with God? At a time when the Church is deeply divided on the issue, many of us find this question perplexing, in the light of our own experiences, and of those whom we know.

 

Arnold Browne, the former Dean of Trinity College Cambridge, has a special interest in the use and abuse of the Bible and in counselling psychology. He has contributed chapters to Sex and the Christian Tradition (ed. Jeremy Morris) and to An Acceptable Sacrifice? Homosexuality and the Church (eds. Duncan Dormer and Jeremy Morris)

 

Alison Webster is Social Responsibility Adviser for the Anglican Diocese of Oxford, and has a longstanding interest in identity issues, particularly gender, race, sexuality and disability. She is the author of Wellbeing (SCM 2002), and You are mine (SPCK 2009), an in-depth study of the formation of identity.

 

Cost  £15 (Concessions £5)

Conference Joining Information and Booking Form from Daphne Cook, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality, 01789 762 553 daphnecook@btinternet.com


This conference is organized by members of The Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality,

Inclusive Church, Changing Attitude, LGCM, The Sibyls, and Church members in Norwich and Birmingham.

31st January 2010 - We celebrate CANDLEMAS
(strictly it is on 2nd February)

Candlemas is the Feast of The Presentation of Our Lord
in the Temple.

we will celebrate it in Eucharists (masses)  at 9 and 1015
and there is a Family Service at 12 noon.

Candlemas is in the church's year a midpoint between
Christmas and Good Friday. We end the Epiphany season
and turn from thinking of Christ's birth and childhood with a reminder in the
readings that as an adult he will end his earthly life dying on a Cross, a death
he willingly accepts as his destiny, for the salvation of humankind.

Traditionally it is the day when we bless all the candles which will be used
during the year!