Friday, March 22 at 7:30 pm. ANCIENT AND EVER NEW … an introduction to Celtic Spirituality In this lecture, John Bell looks at some of the key insights with examples of ancient poems and prayers which speak with a vitality needed in today’s world. Saturday, March 23 from 9:30 to 3:30 MUSIC, LITURGY AND IMAGINATION These
The occasional Fairtrade and Palestinian shop in Glasgow This month, we'll be at the Iona Community's Regional Plenary, which takes place at the Calton Heritage & Learning Centre, 423 London Road, Glasgow G40 1AG (on the corner of London Road and Tobago Street, directly opposite Templeton's Business Centre), http://www.caltonhlc.co.uk So, if you're going to
A Big Sing with John L. Bell, featuring songs from Scotland and across the globe which deal with big issues of the day and with aspects of the life of Christ seldom celebrated.
...led by John Bell. Friday 7-9pm In Praise of a Global God (singable songs from around the world) Sat 10am-12 noon Scripture in Nature Sat 1-3pm Incarnate Jesus Sun 9.45-10.45am Lecture Sun 11am Worship
A four day residency, exploring song, worship and spirituality with seminary students. Includes: Tues 2nd April - chapel morning worship Thurs 4th April - lunchtime lecture on Patron Saints/Public Deities and evening Big Sing 7.30-9.30pm
Big Sing with John Bell.
2019 Haseman Lecture by John L. Bell
2019 Haseman Lecture by John L. Bell
Of the three persons of the Trinity, the Spirit is the one with whom many people feel a little uneasy. But the Spirit has always been and always will be, so in these workshops we lose some of our reservations and discover sides to the Spirit which we may never have noticed before. Led by
A two-day conference to reflect on preaching as it relates to your ministry and parish. The conference is for anyone who wants to explore ways to preach better and to be inspired to give their preaching ministry a new focus. The event will commence with Morning Worship at St Giles Cathedral, before moving to The Hub and New
A Soul Marks Art & Prayer workshop with Carol Marples @ weeWONDERBOX Image © C. Marples Download a poster here. Any help with publicity, much appreciated! This workshop combines practical artwork, image, music, word and silence: no artistic experience is needed. All are welcome ... wherever you are on your spiritual and artistic journeys.
John L. Bell will be working in Australia and New Zealand Mon 6th May – Sun 2nd June. The Wellspring Community’s website has an outline of his itinerary John Bell visit to Australia and New Zealand and a special Facebook page has been created John Bell in Australia 2019
...with John Bell. Cost of $40 includes refreshments and workshop materials.
The Summer Institute of Church Music – SICM – is Canada’s intensive week-long residential summer retreat and study program for the musicians of churches. Grounded in the creative and inspired use of organ and choir in worship, it seeks to celebrate and extend exciting and new horizons in church music, committed always to helping its
A Day to Explore Spirituality and Prayer. John L. Bell will lead workshop sessions on 'Shopping for Thrills or Yearning for Faith' and 'The Strange Silence of Biblical Women'.
Some people believe them, some avoid them and some say they don't matter. But the miracles featured prominently in Jesus' life. In discerning the differences between them, we may be able to see how they nurture rather than confuse our faith. This retreat will be led by John L. Bell.
John Bell joins us at Holy Ground and invites us to participate and sing in discovering songs that carry themes of justice – and explores why such themes are often absent from traditional hymnody and contemporary praise music. John has planned the music for our Eucharist, bringing together both familiar and fresh music from different
The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference, Canterbury. Speakers include John Bell, on 'Whatever Happened to Jesus in the Church's Song?' Open to members and non members alike - if you are a non member you get one year's free membership included in the price you pay!
In conversation This event is now sold out. Admission by pre-booked ticket only Michael Leunig is a cartoonist and poet, under which guises he displays a lively and incisive philosophical and theological mind, commenting on issues of the day. In this Intimate Evening, we invite him to say a little about the role of the
Exploring the Bible without getting bored When we read or hear a passage from the Bible, it often doesn't stick. How could we stay with it, play with it, chew on it and even be changed by it? This autumn weeWONDERBOX offers an experimental series of evenings exploring the Bible creatively. Through collage, wordles, image-making
Greenbelt is a festival of arts, faith and justice. Energised by a progressive Christian worldview, with 19 stages, galleries, installations and outdoor performances, Greenbelt creates a festival that is inclusive, open-minded, participatory and generous in spirit. Its 2019 theme is 'Wit and Wisdom'. WGRG in main Greenbelt programme 'Big Sing' on Saturday, Shelter venue,
A two day international conversation on how to make friends with Holy Scripture, enabled by the Wild Goose Resource Group The Bible ... ... open or closed? ... public or private? ... experience or theory? ... dynamic or dead? Many lay people feel inadequate when speaking about the Bible. And quite a few ministers
An evening concert Janne Mark writes hymns. Yet there is nothing about her that is stuck in a fusty tradition. She writes in the here and now, she is socially aware and committed, and in her work she draws on the freedom of jazz and all of the breadth of the Scandinavian folk tradition.
A participative liturgy of around 45 – 60 minutes. Cost: Free (though donations welcomed) Time: 6.00 - 6.45pm Venue: 21 Carlton Court, Glasgow, Scotland G5 9JP, Scotland. Access to the event space is via one step. Inside there is a low-stepped ramp. We are happy to provide assistance. To receive updates of
Exploring the Bible without getting bored When we read or hear a passage from the Bible, it often doesn't stick. How could we stay with it, play with it, chew on it and even be changed by it? This autumn weeWONDERBOX offers an experimental series of evenings exploring the Bible creatively. Through collage, wordles, image-making
Programme includes sessions on 10 Things They Never Told You About Jesus, and Sung Text in Faith Development. John will also preach at the main Sunday morning service.
What we sing shapes what we believe. This explains why, for many people Jesus is considered to be 'gentle, meek and mild'; words which are a hangover from Victorian childhood hymns. But little will displace that image as long as we concentrate our song of Jesus on his birth and death. The BIG SING is
Join us for a weekend of learning, singing, and inspiration with John Bell. Sat 5th Workshop 1.30-4.30pm includes the topics, The imaginative use of limited resources, and Jesus - absent or present in the Church's song? Sun 6th Hymn Sing 3.00-4.30pm - 'World-Wide Singing' Registration is required for the Saturday workshop. Register here. The registration fee
THE IRENAEUS PROJECT FOR SPIRITUALITY 'Come & See' conference 2019 including workshops with John L. Bell: God's Gift of Diversity - looking at how this theme runs through the scriptures and should run into the Church. Body of Christ or Audience of Strangers - looking at the necessity to constantly rebuild community within the congregation.
with John L. Bell For some people the Psalms are evocative of what they learned by rote in childhood. Others associate them with particularly poignant events – weddings and funerals. Others yet may regard them as an unnecessary intrusion between the Old Testament and the Epistle when a nice worship song would be much preferable.
A review of why ecology and faith were together in the beginning, were torn asunder, and now desperately need to find each other again IF God really loves the world. Many of John Bell's songs and writings touch on God's love of what God has made. Holland House too has a deep desire to honour
Do you think of yourself as someone who lives creatively? Do you habitually draw on art, writing, making things, time outdoors, to reflect on life? Are you curious about the practices that others practise, that help us stay alive, especially in the darker months of the year? If you’re a resounding ‘yes’ or a yearning
WE REGRET THAT THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED Mark Burrows is an academic theologian and published poet as fluent in German as in the American English which is his native tongue. He contributes to and edits poetry magazines as well as being an avid translator of texts from German into English. In recent years
An afternoon of singing, exploring the life of Jesus and our own seasons of life. Experience John's unique gift of enabling anyone to make music, even those with no previous experience of singing with others. Two aspects of the musical life of the church to which scant attention has been paid are songs which deal with
An afternoon of singing, exploring the life of Jesus and our own seasons of life. Experience John Bell's unique gift of enabling anyone to make music, even those with no previous experience of singing with others. Two aspects of the musical life of the church to which scant attention has been paid are songs which deal
An afternoon of singing, exploring the life of Jesus and our own seasons of life. Experience John Bell's unique gift of enabling anyone to make music, even those with no previous experience of singing with others. Two aspects of the musical life of the church to which scant attention has been paid are songs which deal
This retreat, led by John Bell, will allow us to savour spiritual and biblical insights from Christian outside Europe. We will explore prayer and wisdom emerging from Africa, Asia and South America, guided by a principle deeply held by the Japanese theologian, Kosuke Koyama that the mother-tongue God is too small.
Rutland Theological Society talk with John L. Bell. For some people, the imagination is a Pandora's Box leading with equal ease to darkness and light. John regards it as a gift of God and an essential for faith, and pleas for its higher profile in religious and political discourse. The aim of the Society is
A Soul Marks Art & Prayer workshop taster with Carol Marples Image © C. Marples Another chance to enjoy the Art and Prayer taster workshop earlier in the year, in case you missed it first time around! This workshop combines practical artwork, image, music, word and silence: no artistic experience is needed. All are
... on Improving Congregational Song and Developing Personal Spirituality. John will also preach at the Sunday morning service.
An Art and Prayer Workshop Day led by Carol Marples What is an Art and Prayer workshop day and who is it for? It combines practical artwork, image, music, silence and word. All are welcome and no artistic experience is needed. The workshop is not about learning to draw or paint, but about exploring
A Montgomery Trust lecture - with singing - by John L. Bell.
Liturgy 5.50-6.20pm, led by Iona Community Members, Associates and Musicians, followed by a song and music workshop at 7pm, in aid of the Iona Abbey Capital Appeal. John Bell will lead us in learning new songs from the World Church, interspersed with his reflections and a couple of sets from ORAN, Iona Abbey musicians. The
A Quiet Day with John Bell - a reflection on three places where prayer is made; heaven, earth and the soul. Take time in St Katharines extraordinary urban oasis; a chance to step aside from the City but not leave it. BOOK HERE
A Montgomery Trust lecture – with singing – by John L. Bell. No charge, but ADVANCE BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL. Please contact Paul Heppleston - paulheppleston5@gmail.com, 01629 540969.
An Advent Urban Retreat with Pádraig Ó Tuama R.S. Thomas was a Welsh poet and priest. Prolific in publishing during his lifetime, his work spanned landscape, religion, nationalism, power and prayer. At once both soothing and unsettling, his work takes strong language and puts it into the place of poetry and prayer. When considering the
John Bell is now unable to attend, due to bereavement. A service of prayer for Christian unity, led by John Bell, for Churches Together in Caversham and Churches Together in Reading.
John Bell is now unable to attend, due to bereavement. Join us in Little Rock for an “outside the box” Association of Presbyterian Church Educators Annual Event! Bring your ideas, questions, imagination and passion as we discover together how God is sending us out to make disciples through retreat, mission, and justice ministries. John L.
John Bell regrets he has had to postpone this event, due to bereavement. Rescheduled for Mon 16th November 2020. The primary voice in the song of the church is the voice of the congregation. ALL people, not just some, are expected by God to praise their Maker. But this doesn't always happen, especially in smaller
John Bell regrets he has had to postpone this event, due to bereavement. Rescheduled for Mon 16th November 2020. The Celtic church may have faded away by the 10th century, but a distinct spirituality which had a concern for creation, personal devotions and a lively engagement with scripture continued among illiterate lay people and literate
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