This Living Community weekend looks at the following:

PeaceChurch – the Community

Finding Focus

- being Jesus-people in a cynical and turbulent world

Image & Expression

- biblical pictures and today’s opportunities for being church

PeaceChurch – the Experience

Water of Life

- spirituality, community and an understanding of baptism

Rhythms of Life

- shaping shared lives within Jesus-centred values

Peacemeal – the Table

Centrepeace

- a meal table as the primary physical building block for church

Feast of Freedom

- a background to the Christian foundations of breaking bread

Peacemeal – the Encounter

Tree of Life

- exploring the meal that brings spiritual growth and formation

Bread of Life

- food for the world; breaking bread, social action and mission

Plus optional Saturday evening, 18.00-21.00

‘Community within Community’

- a simple meal and conversation with people living in intentional communities

Open to non-weekend participants. Contributions towards the cost of the meal.

This Body & Soul weekend explores and develops key themes:

Spirit and Freedom

- life in the Spirit as the source of ethical living

Truth and Life

- case studies, biblical interpretation and choices

Discovering Values

- values-based Christian ethics

Living Towards Believing

- seeking life choices that point towards truth

Sex, gender and difference

-  the diversity of human gender identity

Sex, orientation and debate

-  questions, experience and homosexuality

Sex, marriage and divorce

- exploring human sexual relationships

Sex, questions and behaviour

- discussing the challenges of sexuality

Plus optional Saturday evening, 18.00-21.00

'Sex in Question'

a simple meal and engagement with the theme.

Open to non-weekend participants. Contributions towards the cost of the meal.

This Creativity & Truth weekend explores and develops key themes:

Wisdom Dancing

- exploring creativity, human and divine

Radical Beauty

- creative tensions, harmonious diversity

Play with Fire

- deep playfulness

Rhythmic Wholeness

- life-giving healing and liberation

Subtle Mosaics

- culture, images and reality

Ruthless Truth

- Jesus and creativity

Vibrant Expressions

- discovering imaginative living

Grasping the Enigma

- definitions and open questions

Trailer for Creativity and Life

This Quest & Questioning weekend explores and develops key themes:

Science & Faith

- the questions 'how' and 'why' are both essential to find the truth

God & Creation

- scripture and science: the two stories that explore one reality

Medicine & Society

- human ability at the frontiers of choice and responsibility

Existence of God

- arguments, reflections and conclusions

Problem of Evil

- facing objections to belief in a God who is good

Spiritual Experience

- seeking clarity within the mystery of personal sacred encounter