IC blogs and news

There are two new blogs up on the IC website - both are also mentioned above. The first is Ruth's sermon from Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, and the second is Tim Goode's talk to the Synod fringe launch of 'Something Worth Sharing'. You can read both blogs here.

Partner news

Woodbrooke are looking for freelance facilitators. Facilitators do not need to be Quaker. Please follow this link to find out more.

Holy Rood House are looking for a new Executive Director. They are particularly looking for 'an Anglican priest who is theologically able, progressive in thought and action and pastorally astute'. The Church Times advert is here.

SCM are promoting a new book called 'Young, Woke & Christian: Words from a Missing Generation' and edited by Victoria Turner. Young people are often referred to as the church's 'missing generation'. But perhaps it is not them that are missing from God's mission, but the church itself. Read more and buy the book here. 

We have a great network of ambassadors covering different parts of England and Wales. They are the representatives of Inclusive Church on the ground. You can find out who the ambassadors are - and where they are - by looking on the Regional Ambassadors page of our website.

Details of the role description for ambassadors is also available on the website. If you want to be an ambassador for your area, get in touch with the Ruth.

From our Birmingham ambassador, Ruth Yorke:

'All are welcome’ and ‘come as you are’ can’t enable a safe community if they mean, ‘come and say and do whatever you want’: we’re only able to create a safe community if we have boundaries. In my blog called 'Boundaries of Inclusion', I explore some of the issues and ideas, with some questions to discuss this in your context. I don’t ‘have all the answers’ and share this with a hope of helping to open the conversation…

Every Wednesday, between 6 and 6.30pm, OneBodyOneFaith are hosting an online space for prayer called 'Rhythm'. Find out more on the website. Rhythm is fast becoming more than a space for prayer. Drawing on monastic patterns, Rhythm includes resources to download and a rule of life for people to 'embrace'.

On Sunday 20th February, Open Table will host their regular Communion Service for Liverpool's LGBTQIA+ community, friends and family - 6.30pm at St Bride's Liverpool AND ONLINE - refreshments served from 6pm. For more, go to Open Table Liverpool's website.

SCM will be live-streaming a service to mark Student Sunday at 6pm on 20th Feb. Read more here and register here.

On Wed 2nd March at 7.30pm, Open Table will host a Glitter Ash Wednesday Service at St Bride's Liverpool. Ashes with glitter - it may sound frivolous but it carries a serious message. More here.

'Becoming a Congregation that Affirms Transgender People' with Chris Dowd and Tina Beardsley will take place on the 28 Apr 2022 10am - 4 pm at Sarum college. £60 / £50 concession. Keep an eye on Sarum's website.

Free to Believe national conference from the 14th - 16th July at High Leigh conference centre, Herts, with speakers including Alex Clare-Young and Fiona Bennett (moderator elect of URC GA). Read more here.

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