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The Rev’d Richard Carter Richard Carter’s talk was cancelled because he had been injured in Italy and was in hospital there. We hope that he may be able to visit us when he has recovered.
Richard Carter is Associate Vicar, St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, and leader of its Nazareth Community. He swapped a life of simplicity with an Anglican religious order in the Solomon Islands for parish ministry in one of London’s busiest churches, where he has special responsibility for the education programme, international links and hospitality. Recognising a need for monastic values in the centre of the city, he founded the Nazareth Community. Its members gather from everyday life to seek God in contemplation, to acknowledge their dependence on God’s grace and to learn to live openly and generously with all. The Nazareth Community’s daily life is rooted in the seven guiding principles: silence, service, scripture, sacrament, sharing, sabbath time and staying. |
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The Rev’d Canon Angela Tilby A former BBC radio and television producer, writer, and broadcaster, Angela Tilby was ordained in 1997. She was vice principal of Westcott House theological college, Cambridge, and then vicar of St Bene’t’s, Cambridge, before moving to Oxford where she was appointed Diocesan Canon at Christ Church Cathedral. On retirement from full time ministry she became canon emeritus at Christ Church and is now also a chaplain and honorary canon at Portsmouth Cathedral. She remains a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day and The Daily Service (BBC Radio 4X), and is a columnist with Church Times. She continues to teach. lecture and write on early church history, spirituality, and Anglicanism.
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| 14 May | Learning
William Howard Having little to do with the church growing up, Will came to faith in his mid-20s after spending two years working in Japan among the descendants of the “hidden Christians” on the island of Kyushu. He’s now based at Christchurch Priory as a Licensed Lay Minister (LLM) and is a Licensed Ministry Training Tutor for the Winchester diocese. His enduring interest is how we can best learn to read and preach the Scriptures. Will comes with the enthusiastic recommendation of his students.
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| 21 May | Growing
The Rev’d Canon Dr Peter Lippiett Peter Lippiett is a retired GP and Anglican priest. He has worked as a parish priest, warden of a retreat house, leader of an international ecumenical Christian community, spiritual director, and Diocesan Spirituality Advisor. He and Maggie have just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, and downsized to an annex alongside family in Harestock, Winchester. They take to the streets of London to urge the phasing out of fossil fuels, and justice for the Palestinian peoples. Peter is a volunteer priest in Littleton, Master’s Chaplain of the Society of Apothecaries, and is privileged to accompany others on their spiritual journeys.
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| Previous series of Space in the City | |
| May 2024: | Spiritual: five talks on spiritual traditions that have shaped lives and religious practice over the centuries and how they still influence our flourishing today. |
| May 2023: | Sacred Spaces: four talks on ways that the arts enhance the sacred in a space. |
| October 2022: | The Lamp Still Shines: four talks on the state of health since Florence Nightingale. |
| May 2022: | Orthodox Christianity: four talks by the Rev’d Dr Andreas Andreopoulos. |
| May 2020: | ‘Sacred Space’ – cancelled due to Covid-19. |
| January 2020: | The Problem of Sin: three talks by Canon Angela Tilby. |
| Autumn 2019: | Alone: six contemporary experiences of solitude. |
| May 2019: | Reflecting on The Lord’s Prayer. |
| January 2019: | The Annunciation: A Pilgrim’s Quest: three talks by Mark Byford. |
| Autumn 2018: | Remembering War … Making Peace considering what has been said and done, painted and composed and written, that has been inspired by the experience of war and the hope of peace. |
| May 2018: | Holy Places: What is it that creates a sense of the holy in places as diverse as the city and the rural, within buildings or a community? |
| New Year 2018: | Three Reflections by The Very Rev’d Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester Cathedral. |
| Autumn 2017: | The Common Good – an idea whose time has come? |
| May 2017: | A Novel Approach – four novelists and writers speak on writing and faith. |
| February 2017: | Soul Matters – Brian Draper on “Soulfulness” and Patrick Woodhouse on “The practice of Faith in a Dismissive World”. |
| Autumn 2016: | Life Matters – five talks tackling issues around Faith, Life and Ethics. |
| May 2016: | The Food of Love – four talks exploring the love of music, seasoned by faith. |
| Jan-Feb 2016: | What we need to know about Syria but are too ashamed to ask – three talks on a topic many of us are only too aware we know too little about. |
| Autumn 2015: | Tell us the Old, Old Story – seven talks given by authoritative theologians, writers and preachers, exploring the interpretation of familiar passages of Biblical Narrative. |
| Spring 2015: | Unfolding Images – five talks exploring the point of intersection between Art and Spirituality. |
| Jan-Feb 2015: | Something Understood – four talks by Canon Jeremy Davies. |
| Autumn 2014: | The Seven ‘Deadly’ Virtues? – four talks addressing the question: are the virtues of Faith, Hope, Love, Prudence, Courage, Restraint and Justice something still worth striving for in this 21st century post-modern world of ours, or are they just too out-moded for words? |
| 11 June 2014: | Beyond the Drift – Rev’d Canon Dr David Scott read works from his newly-published collection. |
| Spring 2014: | The Power of Poetry – illuminating the journey. |
| Jan-Feb 2014: | At the End of the Day – four talks by Canon David Winter. |
| Autumn 2013: | Engaging with God: Worship, Ways and Words. |
| May 2013: | A Spiritual Toolkit – five talks on tools that may assist us in our spiritual journeys. |
| Jan-Feb 2013: | If Jesus is the Answer, What is the Question? – four talks by Dr Jane Williams. |
| Autumn 2012: | Hope Beyond Loss. Six talks from eminent speakers who engaged with the subject of loss in a number of its guises – but recognising that beyond loss there is hope to be found. |
| May 2012: | Going for Gold: Spiritual Greats of the Twentieth Century. Four talks on great spiritual thinkers of the last century who ‘ran with endurance the race set before them’ (Hebrews 12.1). |
| Spring 2012: | Bishop Christopher Herbert: four talks on Perception, Belief and Ethics. |
| Autumn 2011: | 400: The King James Bible – past, present and future. |
| May 2011: | The World as Gift?: four talks exploring our relationship with the world as a gift from God. |
| January 2011: | Pie in the Sky?: four talks by Dr Paula Gooder exploring the themes of Life, Death, Heaven and Hell in the Bible. |
| Autumn 2010: | Sanctuary: eight talks in which various speakers explored their differing experience and understandings of sanctuary. |
| Spring 2010: | Aspects of Alfred: Four talks by Rev’d Canon Dr David Scott. |
| Lent 2010: | Mammon’s Revenge: Four talks by Rt Rev’d Dr Peter Selby, formerly Bishop of Worcester. |
| Autumn 2009: | Prophets for our Time: Seven talks by different speakers. |
| Spring 2009: | Inspired: four reflections on the nature of Inspiration and Place. |
| January 2009: | The Audacity of Hope: four talks by Rev’d Dr Martyn Atkins. |
| Autumn 2008: | When I’m Sixty-Four … A Celebration of the Third Age! |
| Spring 2008: | What can Christianity do for you? |
| January 2008: | The Re-Enchantment of Morality: Wisdom for a Troubled World. Four talks by Bishop Richard Harries (Lord Harries of Pentregarth). |
| Autumn 2007: | Spirituality & … |
| May 2007: | After Anne Frank. |
| May 2006: | Josephine Butler and Sexual Law Reform (PDF text) by Ann Lewin. |
| Jan-Feb 2006: | Rev. Joel Edwards gave four talks under the general title “Respect”. The texts of his talks have been made available by the Evangelical Alliance. |
| New Year 2005: | Four talks by Bishop John Baker (formerly Bishop of Salisbury), “Between Faith and Doubt”: about God, about Jesus, about Good and Evil and about Life and Death. The text of those talks is available here. |
| 2004: | Bishop John Baker gave a series of four talks on the Lord’s Prayer. The text of those talks is here. |
| Jan-Feb 1999: | Convictions: Here I Stand: a series of six talks by Archbishop Donald Coggan. |
| Lent 1998: | Four Settings of the Passion: a series of four talks by Dr Cyril Rodd. |
| Feb-Mar 1997: | Four for the Gospel Makers: a series of four talks by Bishop Simon Burrows. |
| January 1997: | A Brief Guide to the End of the World: a series of four talks by Rev’d Dr Colin Morris. |
| Autumn 1995: | Yes to God’s Earth: seven talks on the theme of Creation. |
Space in the City began under the oversight of the Rev’d Canon David Scott, then Rector of St Lawrence Church, and Warden of Spirituality for the Diocese of Winchester. Talks have now been given and recorded at St Lawrence and at the United Church, Jewry Street, for over thirty years. It is an ecumenical venture organised by lay, licensed, ordained and associate members of Winchester’s city churches: St Bartholomew and St Lawrence with St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate, St Peter’s and the United Church.
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