6 March 2008
Reclaiming the Night
Creative thinking about evening worship
When
Thursday 6 March 2008
10:30 am– 3:30 pm
Where
Birmingham Cathedral
Speakers
Very Revd John Irvine
Dean of Coventry
Rt Revd Gordon Mursell
Area Bishop of Stafford
Revd Canon Adrian Daffern
Precentor, Coventry Cathedral
About this event
Worship ‘when the sun has gone down’ has been important and powerful for Christians from the earliest days of faith. The Church of England, however, still suffers from the ‘Forsyte Saga Syndrome’ – with many of our churches only offering one main worship opportunity – on Sunday morning. Other possibilities, however, abound. The hours of darkness are especially helpful for healing services and pastoral worship with the bereaved, for ecumenical worship in the style of Taize and Iona, for adult and seeker worship with nurture and learning, for youth, charismatic and e-praise events, and for prayer vigils and seasonal night services at, for example, Christmas and Easter.
The speakers will open up theological, liturgical and scriptural contexts, as well as offering night-visionary snapshots of church communities who are using ancient traditions and contemporary resources to bring their evening worship alive.
Booking details
Full Cost: £15, Praxis Members: £12
Registration and refreshments from 10.00 am. Some Midlands dioceses allow Praxis to claim directly from CME budgets. Clergy from those dioceses may book online at the Praxis Midalnds site.
Further information at www.praxismidlands.org.uk
Bookings may be made with
Revd Peter Furber
The Vicarage, 8 Christ Church Road,
Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3BE
Phone: 01684-574106
Email: peter@furber.me.uk
Copies of the booking form can be downloaded here (as a PDF file).
