Conferences
Wisdom: Christian Learning and Contemporary Challenges
International Symposium, Saturday 1 to Sunday 2 May
Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares.
Proverbs 1.20
Registration from 9.30am on Saturday; the first session begins at 10.30am.
Speakers: Jeremy Begbie, Duke University, USA; Michael DeLashmutt, Sarum College; David Ford and Graham Howes, Cambridge University; Anthony Thiselton, Nottingham University; Frances Young, Birmingham University.
For details, visit the Wisdom Symposium page
Price: non-residential, £126 and from £160 (standard room)
All meals except breakfast are included in the non-residential course fee. All meals and refreshments are included in the residential fee.
Walking the Walk with Those Close To Death
29 and 30 May
Sister Frances Dominica and the Revd Mark Birch
In a culture that tends towards specialisation and professionalization, it is easy to feel de-skilled and inadequate when it comes to simply being a good neighbour to those who ‘walk in the valley of the shadow of death’.
Sister Frances Dominica and the Revd Mark Birch will be talking of their experience of supporting children, young adults and their families at Helen and Douglas House in Oxford at every stage of the journey – through progressive illness, death and the years that follow.
This weekend will include opportunities for questions and discussion, as well as input from the speakers. It would be suitable not only for professionals already engaged in the support of such families, but for anyone who is committed to simply being a companion, and who would like to explore some of the challenges and privileges of this work.
Saturday 29 May
11.00am Session 1 'Companionship - a philosophy of care' SFD
1.00pm lunch
2.15pm Session 2 'Journey's end - spiritual care at the end of life' MB/SFD
3.45pm Tea and free time
6.30pm Supper
7.30pm Session 3 'Many journeys - Support for the whole family' MB
Sunday 30 May
8.20am Breakfast (for residential guests)
9.30am Eucharist - Emmaus Road - SFD homily
11.00am Coffee
11.30am Final Session 'On the Image of God' MB
Price: non-residential, £126 and from £160 (standard)
All meals except breakfast are included in the non-residential course fee. All meals and refreshments are included in the residential fee.
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Childhood and Spirituality
9 to 11 June
Mervyn Davies and Rebecca Nye
This conference will introduce participants to ideas about spirituality in childhood, looking particularly at the role and importance of play. Various approaches to chidlren's spirituality willl be outlined and explored but particularly that of Godly Play.
An underlying theme will be how childhood is not so much something we grow out of but a stage that we grow and journey from to become fully spiritual human beings. What does this imply for how we view childhood and what we mean by the 'spiritual'?
Price: Non residential, £135; residential, from £190 (standard room)
For more information, please contact Anne Jensen 01722 424827
Transforming Clergy Leadership Conference
14 to 18 June
The Challenge of Leadership, A Grubb Institute conference at Sarum College
This working conference provides a space for clergy to explore and reflect on what has been happening to them as they seek to minister in the midst of these realities, so that they can identify the leadership they can give in enabling disciples, seekers and others to respond to God’s call. Significantly, it offers frameworks for analysis, and opportunities to become more present to the emerging spiritual and human resources.
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2010 Anniversary Conference
25 to 27 June
An anniversary celebration to unite former faculty members from Salisbury Theological College, Salisbury & Wells Theological College, Salisbury Diocesan Ministerial Training Scheme or Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme (STETS).
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Wisdom Symposium, 1 to 2 May 2010
Sarum College's international symposium will consider the multifaceted role played by wisdom within Christian thought and practice and reflect on ways in which wisdom can inform the mission of the Christian churches today. Our purpose in organising such an event is to carefully discern how wisdom can help our churches to interrelate theology, spirituality and Christian practice.
Special Events Celebrate 150/15 Anniversary
The College is hosting a number of events to celebrate 150 years of theological education and 15 years since the founding of Sarum College as an ecumenical centre for Christian research and study.