Everyday Icons

We all know and recognise without thinking images and icons around us - from film and rock stars to shop logos and brand names - and now computer icons too. They are all around us and are so much part of our every day and everyday existence we never really think about them and the amount of ‘space’ they take up.

Sometimes we need help to clear away the clutter and image that presses in on every side and look with new eyes at all that we see and do. 'Everyday Icons' is a day organised by the Diocesan Initiative on Spirituality in the St Albans Diocese designed to provide just that, new ways of seeing and new ways of understanding all that forms part of modern day living.

Looking to the rich heritage that is ours, the workshops call on ancient traditions - from monastic to Celtic - to help us discover meaning in our every day and everyday life. At the end of the day, we want people to go away with tools for the journey that will inform and enhance the spiritual journey - the journey with God.

Brian Draper is the keynote speaker. He will be known to many from ’Thought for the Day’ as well as being a well regarded figure in the theological world where he has done much work to explore the interface between contemporary culture and Christianity.

I will be running a workshop called 'Stop! Don’t de-clutter it all: Praying through the everyday'. This will explore what we can do with all the ‘stuff’ that we find at the bottom of our handbags, briefcases or pockets? Keys, receipts, paperclips and more can be used as the basis for prayer. This workshop will help you find out how!

Everyday Icons: Finding God in everyday life is happening on Saturday 17th October 2009 from 10am - 3pm at All Saints Church & Richard Hale School, Hertford.

Worship will be by broken, a growing alternative worship community on the edge of London. broken are a community of people from a variety of backgrounds seeking to express and explore a 21st century spirituality rooted in the christian tradition. They gather at St Mary’s, East Barnet on the second Sunday of each month at 7pm and usually round off the evening with a drink before folk go their separate ways. They are an inclusive community, believing that unity can be found in diversity, that the sacred is sometimes found in the profane, and that life and light are to be discovered in that which is broken.

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