This Peace & Power weekend explores and develops key themes:

Peace and Wholeness

- shalom as the basis for ethical action

Gospel of Peace

- evangelism as the proclamation of God's shalom to all

Ecology and Environment

- understanding the gospel as deep 'green'

Companions with Creation

- living as the meek that inherit the earth

Power & Weakness

-  strength perfected by powerlessness

Church and State

-  the nature of the state and the Christian response within it

Peace and War

- the challenge of 'just war' and nonviolence

Crime and Justice

- what does it really mean to put things right?

Plus optional Saturday evening, 18.00-21.00

‘A Force More Powerful’

- a simple meal with discussion around archive film-clips

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

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 Mission & Compassion weekend explores and develops key themes:

Jesus at the Centre

- seeking a Christ centred faith

Mission after Christendom

- mission from the margins of society

Mission after Modernity

- post-modern thinking and today's mision

Mission and Evangelism

- practical principles that are local, global and holistic

Good News to the Poor

- serving and learning from those in greatest need

Loving & Confronting

- helping hurting people find wholeness

Physical Healing

- hard questions about medicine, miracles and sickness

This Credible or Incredible weekend explores and develops key themes:

The Light

- hearing God through natural, biblical and personal revelation

The Godhead

- the challenge of the tri-unity of God's self-expression

The Image

- human personhood as a physical and spiritual totality

The Incarnation

- Jesus Christ fully human, fully divine

The Atonement

- images and understandings of the death of Jesus

The Resurrection

- the resurrection of Jesus in history and theology