Living God's Future Now: Week commencing 7 June 2020

Living God’s Future Now is a series of online seminars, discussions and presentations hosted by HeartEdge. They are designed to equip, encourage and energise church leaders, laypeople and enquirers alike.

'Thank you for all you are supporting and enabling - I absolutely love everything that comes out of HeartEdge.' The Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester

Sunday 7 June

• 2.00 pm (BST), Inspired to Follow: Art and the Bible Story, zoom meeting - Course using fine art paintings as a spring board for deepening one’s Christian faith. Topic: Luke 1:26-38 / ‘The Annunciation’ Fra Filippo Lippi. To receive a zoom invite email Jonathan Evens at jonathan.evens@smitf.org.

Monday 8 June

• 7.30-9.00 pm (BST), Biblical Studies class, zoom meeting. Lecture looking at the New Testament Epistles followed by discussion. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-msqD8sEtE7n_X9u17Jl6R5CvzjjI5e?fbclid=IwAR2_ls4p5ou_7PBBg0Xz31fcSVVYx9JvoQ93hvWbuTjbYVIa9FpfIPChmg8.

Tuesday 9 June

• 4.30 pm (BST), Sermon Preparation Workshop, livestream. Sam Wells and Sally Hitchiner discuss the forthcoming Sunday's lectionary readings in the light of current events. Livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/theHeartEdge/.

Wednesday 10 June

• 4.30 pm (BST), Community of Practitioners workshop, zoom meeting - Opportunity for ministers and other leaders to reflect on issues relating to congregational renewal through commerce, culture and compassion. Email jonathan.evens@smitf.org for an invitation.

Thursday 11 June

• 2.00 – 3.00 pm (BST), Wellbeing Group, zoom meeting. A reflective group providing opportunities to share thoughts and feelings as ongoing support in these unusual times. The group facilitator will be Kate Woodhouse. Join the group at https://bit.ly/2XyhFTe.
• 6.00pm (BST), Living God’s Future Now - HeartEdge monthly dialogue, zoom meeting. Sam Wells in dialogue with John McKnight. To receive a zoom invite email Ben Sheridan at ben.sheridan@smitf.org.

Friday 12 June

• 10.00am (BST), Renewal from the edge, zoom meeting. Azariah France-Williams, Helen Jacobi and Fiona MacMillan explore how lived experience of marginalisation can shape our prophetic and political thinking, enabling us to be most truly who we might be. To receive a zoom invite register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/renewal-from-the-edge-tickets-108142868230.
• 2.30 pm (BST), Seeing Salvation, zoom meeting. Jonathan Evens shares practical approaches to using art in church settings. Session 2: Art and contemplation. Email jonathan.evens@smitf.org for an invitation.

See www.heartedge.org to join HeartEdge and for more information.

Click here to view past Living God's Future Now sessions including the recent Imaging the Invisible interviews with the artists Sophie Hacker and Matthew Askey.

Azariah France-Williams, who will contribute to 'Renewal from the edge', was the preacher at St Martin-in-the-Fields this morning. His sermon can be heard here. The poem that begins his sermon can be found here. His blogpost "The death of George Floyd is the death of every black human" has been posted by SCM Press, the publisher of his forthcoming book Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England.

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Aretha Franklin - A Change Is Gonna Come.

Living God’s Future Now: Week commencing 31 May 2020

Living God’s Future Now is a series of online seminars, discussions and presentations hosted by HeartEdge. They are designed to equip, encourage and energise church leaders, laypeople and enquirers alike.

Monday 1 June

• 4.30 pm - Art & Religion: Imaging the Invisible, https://www.facebook.com/506026059544325/videos/298207657875091/. Jonathan Evens interviews Sophie Hacker, an artist who specialises in Church Art, including stained glass windows, silver, textiles, sculpture and re-ordering liturgical space.
• 7.30-9.00 pm, Biblical Studies class, zoom meeting. Join Simon Woodman for a lecture looking at the New Testament Epistles followed by discussion, with handouts. Register in advance at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-msqD8sEtE7n_X9u17Jl6R5CvzjjI5e?fbclid=IwAR2_ls4p5ou_7PBBg0Xz31fcSVVYx9JvoQ93hvWbuTjbYVIa9FpfIPChmg8.

Tuesday 2 June

• 4.30 pm, Sermon Preparation Workshop, livestream. Sam Wells and Sally Hitchiner discuss the forthcoming Sunday's lectionary readings in the light of current events and share thoughts on approaches to the passages. Livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/theHeartEdge/.

Wednesday 3 June

• 4.30 pm, Community of Practitioners workshop, zoom meeting - An opportunity for ministers and other leaders of HeartEdge churches to meet together to reflect on issues relating to congregational renewal through commerce, culture and compassion. Join HeartEdge at https://www.heartedge.org/main/sign-up and email jonathan.evens@smitf.org for an invitation.

Thursday 4 June

• 2.00 - 3.00 pm, Wellbeing Group, zoom meeting. The HeartEdge Wellbeing Group is a reflective group providing opportunities to share thoughts and feelings as ongoing support in these unusual times. The group facilitator will be Kate Woodhouse. Join the group at https://bit.ly/2XyhFTe. For this group, HeartEdge offers a two-tier ticket option (£30 or £50 for the whole six session series). You choose the rate that best suits your needs.

Friday 5 June

• 2.30 pm, Seeing Salvation, zoom meeting. Jonathan Evens shares practical approaches to using art in church settings. Session 1: Art Trails. Email jonathan.evens@smitf.org for an invitation.

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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us.

Living God's Future Now - new groups and workshops

This week HeartEdge shares several new offerings within the Living God's Future Now programme. For the full Living God's Future Now programme click here. 

Imaging the Invisible

Tomorrow at 4.30pm on the HeartEdge facebook page (https://facebook.com/theHeartEdge/) we premiere a short interview with the artist Sophie Hacker. In this interview with Jonathan Evens, Sophie explores her understandings of imaging the invisible.

Sophie Hacker specialises in Church Art, including stained glass windows, vestments and re-ordering liturgical space. Since 2006 she has been Arts and Exhibitions Consultant for Winchester Cathedral, with particular responsibility for curating. Recent commissions include collaborations with musicians and poets, and numerous ecclesiastical projects.

Wellbeing Group

The HeartEdge Wellbeing Group is a reflective group providing opportunities to share thoughts and feelings as ongoing support in these unusual times. Even once a new normality has been established and restrictions further lifted, Covid and all that is associated is still going to be part of our lives. The group is limited to eight participants and will initially meet for six sessions, evolving to meet the needs of those who join. Participants need to commit to all six sessions (from 4 June to 9 July, 2.00 - 3.00 pm).

The group facilitator will be Kate Woodhouse, an experienced counsellor, registered and accredited with BACP. Kate has a wealth of experience in working with a range of mental health and wellbeing challenges, with particular experience in working with dying, death, loss, grief and bereavement.

Join the group here - https://bit.ly/2XyhFTe

For this group, HeartEdge offers a two-tier ticket option (£30 or £50 for the whole six session series). You choose the rate that best suits your needs. No matter your choice, you will receive the same experience. Those who pay more will help support the content and costs of HeartEdge events. Thank you.

Seeing Salvation: Fridays, 2.30pm, zoom meeting.

Jonathan Evens shares practical approaches to using art in church settings.

Initial sessions are:

• 5 June - Session 1: Art Trails.
• 12 June - Session 2: Art and contemplation.
• 19 June - Session 3: Art workshops.
• 26 June - Session 4: Art meditations.
• 3 July - Session 4: Exhibitions – solo shows. 

Email jonathan.evens@smitf.org for an invitation.

Inspired to Follow: Art and the Bible Story

What does it mean to follow Jesus today? How can I deepen my faith in God? This programme of hour-long gatherings covers the Biblical story from Creation to Apocalypse. It uses fine art paintings that can be found in the collection of the National Gallery as a spring board for exploring these two questions. The course provides a way of deepening one’s Christian faith and exploring what it means to follow Jesus today.

What’s the programme?

• 7 June: Luke 1:26-38 / ‘The Annunciation’ Fra Filippo Lippi, about 1450-3, NG666
• 14 June: Luke 1:26-38 / ‘Mystic Nativity’, Sandro Botticelli, 1500, NG1034
• 21 June: Mark 1: 1-12 / ‘The Baptism of Christ’; predella panel, Giovanni di Paolo, 1454, NG5451
• 28 June: Luke 10:25-42 / ‘Christ in the House of Martha and Mary’, Diego Velásquez, probably 1618, NG1375
• 5 July: Mark 11: 4-12 & 15-19 / ‘Christ driving the Traders from the Temple’, El Greco, about.1600, NG1457
• 12 July: Mark 11: 4-12 & 15-19 / Christ washing the Feet of the Disciples, Jacopo Tintoretto, about.1575-80, NG1130
• 19 July: Matthew 26: 36-54 / ‘The Agony in the Garden’ by Giovanni Bellini, about.1465, NG726
• 26 July: Matthew 26:57-68 / ‘Christ before the High Priest’, Gerrit van Honthorst, about.1617, NG3679
• 2 August: Luke 23:26-38 / ‘Christ carrying the Cross’, Italian, Venetian, about. 1500, NG6655

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The Brilliance - Breathe.