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Belonging and Becoming: Equality and Community Building. A Conversation with Charlie Bell course

Name: Belonging and Becoming: Equality and Community Building. A Conversation with Charlie Bell
Start: 2023-02-26
End: 2023-02-26
Location: Sarum College

James Woodward in Conversation with Charlie Bell, 26 February 2023

Join Sarum College Principal James Woodward and author Charlie Bell on Sunday 26 February from 3pm to 4.15pm at Sarum College.

The Revd Dr Charlie Bell is the author of Queer Holiness: The Gift of LGBTQI People to the Church, an academic psychiatrist at King’s College, London, and Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge.

The Revd Canon Professor James Woodward is a practical theologian who specialises in health and healing, old age, theological reflection and end of life care. He is the editor of Embracing the Chaos: Theological Responses to AIDS (1990).

The event is jointly organised by Sarum College and Salisbury Cathedral; February is LGBT History Month.

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Dates & Times

26 Feb 2023

Expired!

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Location

Sarum College

Tutor(s)

The Revd Canon Professor James Woodward

Other Notes

This event will be held at Sarum College. Afterwards, Canon Woodward will preach at Choral Evensong in Salisbury Cathedral at 4.30pm.

All are welcome to both the event at Sarum College and to Choral Evensong.

There is no need to book a place.

What our students say

PhD Research Programmes

Visual Artist Claire Reed

The complex and sometimes fractious relationship between contemporary art and religion has intrigued me throughout my art career, informing my direction as an artist. It has led me to work in sacred spaces with their immediate and wider communities, to study an MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College, and recently to become artist–researcher at Leo Baeck College of Jewish scholarship and learning.

My aim is to examine the extent to which this creative approach might generate fruitful inter-religious theological insights within a Jewish and Christian ministry training context.

Sarum College combines an open-minded embrace of the imagination and the arts with a supportive, questioning and diverse community. Crucially for me, the Sarum-Winchester PhD programme is one of the very few UK university programmes to offer a hybrid thesis in art and theology in which the creative process and resulting art output along with a written critical component are presented for examination.

This PhD research is a key part of my development as an artist engaged with theology and inter-religious dialogue.

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Stimulating and Challenging

What is Successful Ageing? led by James Woodward

I enjoyed the course immensely from beginning to end – the seamless interweaving of knowledge, ideas and research and the linking with belief and faith.

The content was stimulating, challenging, thought provoking and I was greatly appreciative of the contributions and questions from other participants, your considered and sensitive responses and integration with your presentations.

Thank you!

Netflix, Theology and Pastoral Practice

Peter Butchers on his MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture student experience

How do cultural tropes, like those found in Black Mirror, help bridge the gap between what academic theology espouses and what the everyday Christian believes? In his research as a student on the MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture, Peter Butchers explored platonic philosophy, digital theology and eschatology, and pastoral practice around death and dying.

Rewarding Sabbatical Stay

The Revd Greg Syler, is Rector of Ascension & St. George’s, Resurrection Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC USA, spent part of his ministry sabbatical at Sarum College in spring 2022.

His account of the experience begins: ‘I loved spending nearly three weeks of my ministry sabbatical at Sarum College earlier this year.

Not only did I rest, and rest well in the comfortable care of the Sarum College staff, I experienced very significant renewal and fresh insights.’

The Road Not Taken

Sarum Graduate Mike Truman

January 2022

Five years ago, I told my Warden of Readers that I would not be renewing my licence when it expired in 2019, as I thought my faith was becoming too unorthodox for a Church of England licensed lay minister. As someone who knew me well, she challenged me to actively explore what I did still believe. Thus started the journey that ended last August with the dissertation completing my MA in Theology Imagination and Culture (MATIC) at Sarum College.

Clergy Study Breaks

The opportunity for clergy to get away occasionally from their own context, to have an overnight stay in the beautiful setting of Sarum College and all that the Salisbury Cathedral Close offers is hugely valuable. All the clergy I have suggested who have spent 24hrs at Sarum College have benefit greatly from the experienced mentoring where they can talk, reflect, think, plan and pray.

The support and encouragement they receive is excellent and has a positive on their on going ministry. This is something the Diocese of Rochester encourages and supports financially in preparation for their clergy preparing for Extended Ministerial Development Leave (Sabbatical).

— Canon Christopher Dench, Diocese of Rochester Director of Formation and Ministry

Tutor(s)

The Revd Canon Professor James Woodward

Principal, Sarum College

Belonging and Becoming: Equality and Community Building. A Conversation with Charlie Bell

Belonging and Becoming: Equality and Community Building. A Conversation with Charlie Bell course