Beyond Cop26 - What next? EcoChurch & other steps

 

We are pleased to invite you to the Churches Together in Westminster 2022 Annual General Meeting On-line via Zoom at 6pm on 17 January 2022.

The AGM will be followed this year by talks on the subject of “Beyond Cop26 - What next? EcoChurch & other steps”. These will include how to become an EcoChurch and how to get involved in Citizens UK Just Transition campaign.

Speakers will include

• Helen Stephens, Church Relations Manager, A Rocha UK, introducing EcoChurch;
• Rev Simon Woodman, Minister, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, on Citizens UK Just Transition campaign;
• Rev Joan Ishibashi, St James Piccadilly on becoming an EcoChurch

See our website http://ctiw.london/2021/ctiw-agm-and-talks/. Register for the Zoom link at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-cop26-what-next-ecochurch-and-other-steps-tickets-224242554517.

We look forward to welcoming you.

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Chris Thile - Laysong.

Inclusive Church 2019 Lecture

The Annual Inclusive Church lecture was inaugurated in 2013, marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of Inclusive Church. Taking place each year in conjunction with the AGM it invites a leading theologian or activist to reflect and challenge us about inclusion.

The 2019 Inclusive Church Lecture took place on Tuesday 9th July 2019 at Southwark Cathedral. The lecturer was Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields and the talk was entitled 'Citizens of Heaven: Identity, Inclusion and the Church':

'I have a simple agenda tonight. I want to change the question we’re all asking. I say ‘we’ and ‘all’ because my sense is that those who advocate the inclusive church agenda and those who most vehemently oppose it are currently asking the same question, and the reason they’re are at odds is because they’re giving different answers. My counsel to those who are glad to bear the epithet ‘inclusive’ is not to shout their answer louder or longer than the opposition, or give examples of the pain and suffering the opposing answer has caused, or suggest that the arc of history bends towards their position, and thereby win the argument; it’s instead to ask a different question. A similar question – but a subtly different question. I believe if we get the question right, the answer and the argument will largely look after themselves.'

You can watch a video of Sam's talk here and a transcript of the talk is available here.

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Antonio Vivaldi - La Follia.

Citizens of Heaven: Identity, Inclusion and the Church

Inclusive Church AGM and Annual Lecture, Tuesday 9 July 2019, 7pm, Southwark Cathedral

St Martin-in-the-Fields has worked in partnership with Inclusive Church since 1998. This year Sam Wells is giving the annual lecture - 'Citizens of Heaven: Identity, Inclusion and the Church'. All are welcome – you don't have to register but it really helps if you do. The AGM is very short, the annual lecture will be brilliant, and the refreshments as good as our own Cafe. Full details and access information can be found here.

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Mavis Staples - Touch A Hand, Make A Friend.

Sophia Course

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Marcus Mumford & Justin Hayward-Young - Like A Hurricane.