| 1 October |
Faith |
Rachel BouldingRachel Boulding is Deputy Editor of the Church Times, having previously worked at Church House Publishing, where she helped produce the Common Worship materials. She contributes regularly to BRF New Daylight Bible reading notes. She is the author of Companions on the Bethlehem Road: Daily readings and reflections for the Advent journey (BRF 2012) which draws on poetry for spiritual insights, and Celebrating the King James Version (BRF, 2010), a collection of meditations on passages from the Authorised Version. She started her publishing career at SPCK. She was educated at Kendrick Girls’ School, in Reading, and then read English at Pembroke College, Oxford. She also spent some time as a parish assistant in Sheffield. She is married to a school teacher, and they have a 15-year-old son. |
- The talk was introduced by the Rev’d Amanda Goulding. To listen again, click the ‘play’ button (white triangle).
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- Rachel Boulding kindly provided the script for her talk, which can be read or downloaded here (PDF) †
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| 8 October |
Hope |
Sr Mairead Quigley RSCJSister Mairead is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, living and working in Salisbury. She is Pastoral Tutor to the students on various MA programmes at Sarum College, based in Salisbury Cathedral Close, where she is also Senior Chaplain. Sarum also hosts the Southern Theological Training Scheme for Ordination training and Sr Mairead takes an active role in the training weekends in both a pastoral and professional sense. At other times, Sr Mairead is involved in spiritual direction, leading quiet days and guided retreats, and helps in a local parish Summer Club for young children. On top of all of that, she has returned to study herself and is working towards a doctorate in Theology. |
- The talk was introduced by the Rev’d Amanda Goulding. To listen again, click the ‘play’ button (white triangle).
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- Sister Mairead kindly provided the script for her talk, which can be read or downloaded here (PDF) †
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| 15 October |
Restraint |
The Rev’d Professor T.J. GorringeTim Gorringe worked in parishes for six years before going to South India to teach theology. On his return to Britain he was chaplain, fellow and tutor in theology at St John’s College, Oxford. He is now Emeritus Professor of Theological Studies at Exeter University. His most recent books are The Common Good and the Global Emergency (CUP 2014) and Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art (Yale U.P. 2011). Apart from research and writing, he is part of a small rural team ministry and takes services every Sunday. Together with his wife Gill he runs a 15 acre smallholding with a flock of 60 Jacob’s sheep, bees, chickens, fruit and vegetables, cider and wine making and occasionally, inadvertently, rather good wine vinegar. He is part of the Transition Town movement and a member of the Iona Community. |
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- Professor Gorringe spoke without a script, so no text is available.
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| 22 October |
Justice |
Professor Andrew BradstockAndrew Bradstock is currently Secretary for Church and Society with the United Reformed Church and a member of the Baptist, Methodist and URC Joint Public Issues Team. Formerly lecturer in Theology at La Sainte Union College, Southampton, and King Alfred’s College (as was) Winchester, he was from 2009-13 inaugural Howard Paterson Professor of Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Andrew is an honorary professor of the University of Winchester and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. |
- The talk was introduced by Graham Rolfe. To listen again, click the ‘play’ button (white triangle).
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| 29 October |
Courage |
Sr Frances Dominica OBE, DL, FRCN, FRCPCH (Hon)Sister Frances trained as a nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and the Middlesex Hospital before joining the Society of All Saints, an Anglican Religious Community, where she was Mother Superior for twelve years. She founded Helen House, the world’s first children’s hospice, which opened in 1982 and Douglas House, the first hospice for young people, which opened in 2003, and is a Trustee of the organisation. Along with her varied duties and interests, Sister Frances writes and lectures on the care of children and young people with life-shortening illnesses. She is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Oxfordshire, and has received Honorary Degrees from four universities. She was awarded an OBE in 2006, and received the Woman of the Year Award in 2007. |
- The talk was introduced by Debbie Thrower. To listen again, click the ‘play’ button (white triangle).
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- During her talk Sister Frances quoted from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1881–1944), first published 1922, still in print in various editions.
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| 5 November |
Prudence |
Canon Patrick WoodhousePatrick Woodhouse retired from Wells Cathedral in December 2012 where he had been Canon Precentor since 2000. His career, in neat decades brought him to Wells from Wiltshire where he was Vicar of Chippenham, and before that as Advisor in the Church of England’s ministry of Social Responsibility, to the Diocese of Carlisle and to that of Winchester. His particular concerns include the recovery of a more contemplative spirituality within the life of the church and a deeper understanding of, and respect for, the contemplative dimension of different faith traditions. Over the last few years he has also been writing: Beyond Words, an introduction to contemplative prayer (2001), and With You is the Well of Life, a book of prayers (2005) (both pub. Kevin Mayhew) and Etty Hillesum, a Life Transformed (Continuum 2009). In 1997 Patrick visited India for a period of study leave and as a result, he and his wife now lead pilgrimages to South India to explore meeting points between contemplative traditions. Patrick and Sam have two married daughters, Hannah who lives in Cambridge, and Imogen who lives just outside Bangalore in south India, and five grandchildren. |
- The talk was introduced by the Rev’d Amanda Goulding. To listen again, click the ‘play’ button (white triangle).
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| 12 November |
Love |
Bishop John DennisJohn Dennis is the former Anglican Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and is currently an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Winchester. He is married to Dorothy and they have two sons: John is British Ambassador in Angola, and Hugh, the well-known TV comedian and actor. Bishop John was educated at Rutlish School, Merton (where his father taught biology) and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge before studying for ordination at Ripon College, Cuddesdon in Oxford. After curacies in Armley and Kettering he was appointed vicar of the Isle of Dogs in 1962, transferring to Mill Hill in 1971. After appointment as a prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral, London in 1977, he became the Bishop of Knaresborough in 1979, and then the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1986. He retired to Winchester in 1996. |
- The talk was introduced by the Rev’d Peter Seal. To listen again, click the ‘play’ button (white triangle).
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- During his talk, Bishop John referred to (among other things) the Rublev icon (Wikipedia), his African icon of the Trinity (photo), and The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis.
- Bishop John referred to (among other things) the Rublev icon (Wikipedia), his African icon of the Trinity (photo), and The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis.
- Bishop John kindly provided his sheet of quotations, with the hymn that we sang at the end of his talk, which can be read or downloaded here (PDF) †
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