Exploring Faith

Some of us like to explore, debate, question, argue, share and reflect our way through a range of faith issues and how they reflect on our lives and community.

We try to provide a number of opportunities for interested and inquisitive people to do just that in open ended discussion.

Examples of these are:

• Meetings to discuss our minister’s exploration of the Bible at Sunday worship, usually on a Tuesday afternoon. Discussions at these meetings can take us in all sorts of directions. (You can listen to the weekly sermon online at this location.)
• Weekly study groups that form in the reflective seasons of the Christian year like Lent (leading up to Easter) or Advent (to Christmas).

Such meetings generally have a leader, usually our Minister, but the topic can be a launching pad that takes us in all sorts of directions including the discussion of individual faith journeys.

During Lent, in 2024, with our Anglican friends from Christ Church, we held a series of half-hour early morning gatherings where we heard a gospel reading followed by a time of meditation and a song before quietly departing into the day.

During the lead-up to the referendum in 2023 we held a series of seven weekly discussions on the Statement from the Heart.

During COVID, when we could not physically meet together, we held weekly Zoom discussions, ending with participants switching off lighting and, candles burning, saying a blessing.

In parish gatherings we share our dreams and visions and how to get there, encouraging and listening to the multiplicity of voices within us, respecting them, and learning from them.