Welcome to our exciting HeartEdge programme for 2022. We hope you will be able to join us, whether at online events or at our in-person events around the world. You can find all our events on our website — and if you're a HeartEdge partner, you can upload your own events through the members' area.
Last year, we launched Living God's Future Now, an online festival of theology and practice. We hosted workshops, webinars, spaces to gather and share ideas, lecture series, and more. This year, we're continuing our programming with a new theme — humbler church, Bigger God.
HeartEdge is fundamentally about a recognition of the activity of the Holy Spirit beyond and outside the church, and about a church that flourishes when it seeks to catch up with what the Spirit is already doing in the world. There was a time when church meant a group that believed it could control access to God – access that only happened in its language on its terms. But God is bigger than that, and the church needs to be humbler than that. Kingdom churches anticipate the way things are with God forever – a culture of creativity, mercy, discovery and grace – and are grateful for the ways God renews the church through those it has despised, rejected, or ignored.
We hope this reflects the lessons we've learnt from the past year: still trying to live God's future now, re-imagining our faith and our calling as a Church in a changing world. Thank you for joining us for the journey — we can't wait to see what the next year brings.
Contemplation as a Gift to the Church: Humbler Church, Bigger God – Monday 28 February, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM GMT. Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contemplation-as-a-gift-to-the-church-humbler-church-bigger-god-tickets-242389342047. It can sometimes feel like the church is preoccupied with methods of church growth, discussing strategy, developing mission action plans, and resourcing leadership. During lockdown it was fascinating to see the resurgence of contemplative prayer and contemplative practices as people sought new ways to deepen their roots in the Christian faith.
Music and Liturgy for Lent - Mon, 28 February 2022 18:00 – 19:15 GMT Sacred Trinity Church, Chapel Street, Salford, M3 5DW. Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-and-liturgy-for-lent-tickets-230380122147. Andy Salmon (North West Co-ordinator of HeartEdge and Rector of Sacred Trinity Church) will give tips about creative liturgical resources for Lent whilst Andrew Earis (Director of Music at St Martin-in-the-Fields) and the Manchester HeartEdge Choral Scholars will share musical resources to help freshen up your lenten experience. We will be broadcasting on Zoom but people are also welcome to come in person. On 19 March we will run a sister event on Music and Liturgy for Easter.
Church History course - Monday 28 February, 19:45–21:00 GMT, Zoom. Click here to register. This course provides an introduction to and an overview of church history. If we are to see a humbler Church and a bigger God, we need to deal with the history of the Church to understand where we are now, and why? Ruth Gouldbourne has been a Baptist minister for more than 30 years. Week 3 - Creeds, Councils and Controversies.
Sermon Preparation with Sally Hitchiner and Sam Wells: Tuesday 1st March, 16:30 – 17:30pm GMT live-streamed at https://www.facebook.com/theHeartEdge. Join us for our weekly discussion of the lectionary readings for the coming Sunday with Sam Wells and Sally Hitchiner.
Community of Practitioners workshop: Wednesday 2nd March, 16:00-17.00 (GMT), Zoom. Email jonathan.evens@smitf.org to register. This is a space for practitioners, lay and ordained, to reflect on theology and practice. Each week, we alternate between 'Wonderings' and discussion of a theology book. This week we will be discussing ‘Improvisation’ by Sam Wells.
Faith in the time of the ‘new normal’ - Thursday 3rd March, 7:15pm. Register at https://form.jotform.com/212773252401043. A series of Lenten conversations hosted by The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education. This series aims to help congregations and house groups reflect on how Christians may understand the changes we’ve been through as a society, and the new ‘place’ we may be entering. Where are we now? This session will explore where we are culturally in the wake of the pandemic, drawing on the Psalms to consider change, struggle and growth as an anchor for reflection.
Shut in Shut Out Shut Up: Disability & Church: Intersectionality- Friday 4th March 4.30pm- 6pm Zoom. Register at Shut In Shut Out Shut Up Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite. Exploring experience of disability and neurodiversity, gender, mental health, sexuality, race and poverty, with Fiona MacMillan and guests including: Molly Boot, Alex Clare-Young, Lamar Hardwick, Ann Memmott, Rachel Noel, Alexis Padilla.
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Sermon Preparation with Sally Hitchiner and Sam Wells: Tuesday 1st March, 16:30 – 17:30pm GMT live-streamed at https://www.facebook.com/theHeartEdge. Join us for our weekly discussion of the lectionary readings for the coming Sunday with Sam Wells and Sally Hitchiner.
Community of Practitioners workshop: Wednesday 2nd March, 16:00-17.00 (GMT), Zoom. Email jonathan.evens@smitf.org to register. This is a space for practitioners, lay and ordained, to reflect on theology and practice. Each week, we alternate between 'Wonderings' and discussion of a theology book. This week we will be discussing ‘Improvisation’ by Sam Wells.
Faith in the time of the ‘new normal’ - Thursday 3rd March, 7:15pm. Register at https://form.jotform.com/212773252401043. A series of Lenten conversations hosted by The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education. This series aims to help congregations and house groups reflect on how Christians may understand the changes we’ve been through as a society, and the new ‘place’ we may be entering. Where are we now? This session will explore where we are culturally in the wake of the pandemic, drawing on the Psalms to consider change, struggle and growth as an anchor for reflection.
Shut in Shut Out Shut Up: Disability & Church: Intersectionality- Friday 4th March 4.30pm- 6pm Zoom. Register at Shut In Shut Out Shut Up Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite. Exploring experience of disability and neurodiversity, gender, mental health, sexuality, race and poverty, with Fiona MacMillan and guests including: Molly Boot, Alex Clare-Young, Lamar Hardwick, Ann Memmott, Rachel Noel, Alexis Padilla.
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Aretha Franklin - Climbing Higher Mountains.
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