HeartEdge is about sharing, connecting, growing support and developing - finding new ways of being at the heart on the edge.
24th January 2021
A one-day, online festival including worship, lectures and reflection.
24th January 2021
Animals and the Church: Preaching in the Age of Factory Farming.
24th January 2021
News of HeartEdge Introductory events for Bisbane/Melbourne, Wessex and Liverpool.
The focal event in 'Living God's Future Now' is a monthly conversation (on the second Thursday in each month) in which Sam Wells explores what it means to improvise on God’s kingdom with a leading theologian or practitioner.
Earlier conversations were with Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight, Chine McDonald, +Rachel Treweek, Stanley Hauerwas, Barbara Brown Taylor, Kelly Brown Douglas and Steve Chalke. Find these conversations at https://www.facebook.com/pg/theHeartEdge/videos/?ref=page_internal.
At 6.00 pm (GMT) on Thursday 14 January 2021, Sam Wells and Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will be in conversation to discuss how to improvise on the kingdom. The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry is Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church. He is the Chief Pastor and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as Chair of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church. Register for a Zoom invitation at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/living-gods-future-now-conversation-presiding-bishop-michael-curry-tickets-132832608909.
Then at 6.00 pm (GMT) on Thursday 11 February Sam will explore the same theme with Sarah Coakley. Sarah is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. From 2018 to 2020 she is an Honorary Professor at the Logos Institute, St Andrews University, and from 2019 she is Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome). Register for a Zoom invitation at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-gods-future-now-sarah-coakley-tickets-134805166883.
facebook & zoom
HeartEdge is offering three weekly online workshops - a Biblical Studies class, Sermon Preparation workshop and a Community of Practitioners meeting - involving Revd Sally Hitchiner, Revd Dr Sam Wells and Revd Dr Simon Woodman which may be of interest to church practitioners.
'Living God’s Future Now' describes 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, in areas such as preaching, growing a church, shifting online, deepening spirituality in a congregation and responding to social need.
Congregations developing open, hospitable, welcoming approaches to day-to-day communal life, liturgy and worship.
We think it’s possible to be a church without being defensive or closed-minded. The Holy Spirit works as much beyond the church as within it - we look for God at work and join in.
God wants us to live before death as well as after.
HeartEdge is about deepening and widening the congregation.
Engaging local need and addressing social justice.
We do unbelievable things when we start with our assets rather than deficits.
It’s possible to be compassionate with those excluded or in trouble, in a way that enhances community.
Care comes not from altruism but recognition of our own need, and desire to be transformed by the strangers God sends us.
Visual and performing art and ideas, re-imagining the Christian narrative for the present moment.
Exploring new avenues of arts from expand and encourage new cultures within church and the community.
Commercial activity generating finance, creatively extending and enhancing mission.
We think it is possible to have commercial activities available within Church that demonstrates a wider understanding of the Faith.
By allowing our assets - likes buildings and facilities - to broaden and appeal to a larger market we remain at the centre of our community, valued and considered by all.
Day-to-day communal life, liturgy and worship
Congregations developing open, hospitable, welcoming approaches to day-to-day communal life, liturgy and worship.
We think it’s possible to be a church without being defensive or closed-minded. The Holy Spirit works as much beyond the church as within it - we look for God at work and join in.
God wants us to live before death as well as after.
HeartEdge is about deepening and widening the congregation.
Partnering with others in forming relationships, releasing the gifts of strangers
Engaging local need and addressing social justice.
We do unbelievable things when we start with our assets rather than deficits.
It’s possible to be compassionate with those excluded or in trouble, in a way that enhances community.
Care comes not from altruism but recognition of our own need, and desire to be transformed by the strangers God sends us.
Re-imagining the Christian narrative for the present
Visual and performing art and ideas, re-imagining the Christian narrative for the present moment.
Exploring new avenues of arts from expand and encourage new cultures within church and the community.
Finding income streams to achieve financial sustainability and grow flourishing programmes
Commercial activity generating finance, creatively extending and enhancing mission.
We think it is possible to have commercial activities available within Church that demonstrates a wider understanding of the Faith.
By allowing our assets - likes buildings and facilities - to broaden and appeal to a larger market we remain at the centre of our community, valued and considered by all.
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