“The Once and Future Bible” a workshop with Greg Jenks, 9.30am-4.00pm, Saturday September 17, 2011

The Bible is a book with a well-documented past, but an uncertain future.

Once the meta-narrative for a civilization, it now struggles to engage the public imagination in a global village.

Can it be reclaimed from the grip of religious conservatives to serve once more as a source of hope and meaning?

This full-day workshop will explore selected themes that are relevant to a critical reading of the Bible today and in the immediate future: unholy use of the Holy Bible, multiple readings of the same Scriptures, reclaiming the Bible for progressives, and reading with critical imagination.

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There will be two services of Holy Communion on Ash Wednesday this year. Both will include the imposition of ashes in an ancient reminder of our mortality and perhaps our need to live fully in the moment.

As Bruce Epperly suggests, “The brevity and uncertainty of life now invites [us] to praise, wonder, and beauty, and to seize the moment—for this is the day God has made and I will rejoice in it! All that I love and care for is mortal and transitory, but mortality is the inspiration to celebration and love. Plato once described time as the moving image of eternity. We are constantly dying, but we are also constantly living as we reflect God’s vision in the world of the flesh. This day, this moment, is a “thin place,” for God is with us, revealed in flesh, blood, and healing touch.”

The services will be at 7.30am and 5.30pm – all are welcome.