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March 2018 CC0 Public Domain the Dark Why Are We Afraid of the Dark? 24 March 2018 https://pxhere.com/en/photo/636163 CC0 Public Domain The Dark Why are we afraid of the dark? The warm, velvety blackness Where tiny lights twinkle and dance And invite our attention The fertile dark How firm ... Where imagination paints vivid pictures And the soul receives insights How firm a foundation? Which grow to maturity to be born in the light Rock hard, God my Rock, God unchanging. The tactile dark BUT. Where touch is everything Rock has been formed, transformed, reformed. And sensuality blossoms The rock, writhed into being; And bodies quiver with togetherness. Molten – hot, all consuming, Cooling, hardening, set firm. Pain, Anguish and Despair, Tectonic plates crash, smash, clash and mash. The darkness that is blankness and impotence, Rubbing shoulders, rubbing boulders, Smothering and overwhelming melange in the making. This is frightening - but has to be loved The immovable has moved, and embraced to be healed. The unchangeable has changed. To walk as children in the light all the time A new rock, a new foundation. Is unwholesome, dangerous and destructive Does God change too? How firm a foundation? To be whole we must have the dark With all its sorrows and pain I struggle to understand the changing geology And all its unfathomable joys. - And struggle to embrace a changing theology. Anne Burge I pick up pebbles on the beach and I wonder, I share my thoughts about God and I ponder. We quarry and quarrel the rocks into new formations. We harry and hassle God into our image. God is argued and debated into and out of existence. I stand on the cliffs and marvel at magnificent, majestic rock formations. I look to the word and am in awe of changing, evolving images of God. How firm a foundation? Meryl White https://pxhere.com/en/photo/852014 CC0 Public Domain Welcome Contents We have again put together a themed edition of 2 Poems: Why are we afraid of the dark? Progressive Voices. We set ourselves the challenge to explore how we can engage, support and encourage How firm a foundation? younger folk through Progressive Christianity. 3 Welcome We are more than aware of the demographics of our 4 Chair’s Letter; Staff and Trustees groups, the wider Church, and the sense of uncertainty this raises for the future. But it is often said that 5 Your letters; Free to Believe conference; “Christianity is always one generation away from Rev Dr Roger Ray tour extinction.” While the stories are still being told, the message being shared, and the example being followed, 6 Raising our Voice! there is always hope. 7 Charter for Compassion I trust that what you will find in this issue will give you Children and the Bible reason to be hopeful. 8 In the coming pages: Adrian calls us to find common 9 Finding space; Joining in ground, Mo encourages us to speak up, Simon urges us 10 Engaging with schools to engage honestly with the Bible, Rob tells his story, Nicola wants us to raise our profile, Howard tells of his 11 Introducing: Pat Fuller experience with sixth formers, Thom desires us to be 12 Building our hearts real with each other, and Paul ponders his own childhood and Messy Church. 13 Can’t Sing! I am incredibly grateful to all of those that have 14 What do we tell the children? contributed items, suggested sources, and helped to fill the pages before you. 16 The Virtue of Queerness Alongside this theme the Letters Page has some 18 News from local groups responses, there are plenty of events coming up, and we have a bumper reviews section. 20 Reviews: Matthew in your Pocket, Prayers Welcome to the 24th edition of Progressive Voices. for Dementia, What is the Bible?, Exploring Enjoy! doubt: landscapes of loss and longing, Holy Habits, Unbelievable, Towards Jerusalem, Our Witness, Finding a way ahead, That was the Church that was, Jesus 24 The Heretic, Gretta Vosper DVD, Singing Hymns again for the first time, The Christian Student Guide Progressive Voices is the magazine of the There is an open invitation for submissions. Progressive Christianity Network Britain Your reflections, questions, events, poems, [Registered Charity No. 1102164]. It is published images, reviews, letters, comments, news, quarterly in March, June, September and December. prayers and other contributions are all welcome. PCN Britain is itself part of a wider international Publication is at the discretion of the editor: network of progressive Christian organisations. [email protected] You can contact us at 01594 516528, [email protected], or PCN Britain, 26 High Copy Deadlines: Street, Newnham, Gloucestershire, GL14 1BB. June: Friday 11th May 2018 Further information, including details of publications and conferences, is available at Sept: Friday 10th August 2018 Dec: Friday 9th Nov 2018 www.pcnbritain.org.uk March: Friday 8th Feb 2019 3 Chair’s Letter I don’t usually quote Brigham Young, founder obvious than in young people. The average of Salt Lake City and second president of The attendance by children (under 16s) at CofE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, but services fell by 22% (2006-2016). In 25% of Progressive he said: “Don’t try to tear down other churches the weekly attendance by children Christianity people’s religion about their ears, build up and young people was zero. In response many your own perfect structure of truth, and invite programmes and events are organised to Network your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.” ‘reach young people for Christ’. What might Britain We certainly have no right to claim a ‘perfect PCN say into this situation? This edition of Progressive Voices attempts to do just that. www.pcnbritain.org.uk structure of truth’, and neither do others, but there is a danger in trying to tear down other Instead, surely our task, young and old, is to www.facebook.com/ pcnuk/ people’s religion. History testifies to the work together for the kind of world which ongoing conflict between, and within, religious Jesus sought to articulate in his life: a world of Trustees faiths. Adherents of any one set of beliefs or compassion and love, of justice and of peace. Adrian Alker, Chair ideology are passionate to defend and The young people in my family, and my life, do [email protected] promote it. St Paul and Martin Luther were no have ideals about their world. They have Dave Coaker, editor of shrinking violets in this respect. Of course concerns about the environment, pollution, Progressive Voices [email protected] there is passion in religion, and PCN members knife crime, inequality, inclusion, and their feel no less passionate about where they long-term ability to own a home. If you look at Simon Cross [email protected] stand, albeit our passions will vary! the success of Momentum, we see highly We offer our eight points as one approach to motivated young people wanting to make a Maureen Foxall [email protected] dialogue, but even then we can seem to difference to society. Do we need to ‘reach threaten those in leadership, and many folk in out’ to them and if so with what intent? Pat Fuller [email protected] the pews, who find comfort, companionship Many churches share these ideals and vision and purpose in belonging to their local and this is where they can ally with their Ian Geere [email protected] fellowship. In the last PV I wrote of our being aspirations. But we need to ‘ditch the dogma’, ‘missional’ in trying to promote a progressive and ‘live the life’ as our banner proclaims. We Richard Gray [email protected] agenda, and I know that many members feel don’t need the language of ‘reaching out’ as this is a non-starter. When Jack Spong called though young people are ‘lost’. Rather we Sandra Griffiths, Honorary Secretary for a ‘new Reformation’ it seemed a relatively need to recognise that we are all on a journey [email protected] easy task to tear down many of the belief of discovery about life, its purposes, its Sue Hobley structures embedded in the creeds and possibilities, and the kind of world we wish to [email protected] doctrines of the Church. So many of the inhabit. Most young people are not seeking Paul Onslow, Vice Chair theological arguments of Spong, Borg, the comfort of a Sunday morning church [email protected] McLaren, and others, have the power to community. They find community in their own Peter Stribblehill, persuade, to influence and to ‘build up’ as well ways. The days of Sunday Schools, the learning Treasurer as to ‘tear down’, but often it takes time to of catechisms, of confirmations and youth [email protected] gently nudge people into thinking afresh. services, are gone. Let’s really listen to what Richard Tetlow young people are saying and thinking about [email protected] I do not underestimate how resistant many are to such challenges, but I do believe that by God, religion, Christianity and other faiths. Staff promoting an honest and radical examination I do believe that the Jesus story has the power Sarah Guilfoyle, of the fundamentals of Christian faith we will to resonate and be a guide to young people. I administrator and assistant web editor be on the right side of history. do believe that they are keen to ask the big [email protected] questions about life. I hope that any new PCN At the moment many denominations are Steve Ireland Web host trying to stem decline.
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