Trinity NEWS Mark Performed from Memory by Actor Max Mclean

NEWS SPRING 2017 Becoming More Contemplative INSIDE: Why our postgrad programme might surprise you Learning to disagree …and lots more www.trinitycollegebristol.ac.uk Cover photo: Taken by ordinand Helen O’Sullivan during a Quiet Day, using photography as a means of reflection. carefully and prayerfully. I was so pleased In this issue Read more about contemplative living on p10. by the ways in which this community was able to model loving and thoughtful dialogue together—demonstrating real kingdom NEWS vision and values. You can read more in this newsletter about the plenary week in an From the principal 3 article written by one of our ordinands (p19). College news 4 From the principal As we continue to try to work through the challenges of community in order to learn Faculty news 8 together how to live and lead in a way that e have enjoyed a good year at Trinity Alumni news 21 models Christ’s coming kingdom, will you pray Wthis year—the large number of students for us? We are conscious of the fact that all here continues to bring vibrancy and blessing of our hard work on behalf of this community to the college community. It seems that in falls short when we do not look first to God FEATURES various conversations I have about Trinity and rely fully on his leading and help. around and about, the aspect that people From Ambition to Contemplative Mission speak about most readily is the quality of our Pray that God would lead those students to Trinity whom he would like to form A Q&A with alumnus Paul Bradbury about how community life. A recent email I received from a past student who came back to attend the through this community. Pray that money, contemplative living provides a foundation for our circumstances, or worries would not prohibit participation in God’s mission. alumni day and academic awards ceremony 10 expressed it like this: We will always be anyone whom God is encouraging toward grateful for the training that Trinity has given deeper theological study and the opportunity us; it is so much more than just a college, it is to be re-formed in community. 14 Four Facts About Our Postgrad Programme a place where I was really re-formed. Pray for our faculty and staff members, for That Might Surprise You With greater numbers it is all the more strength and wisdom as they juggle many New technology, new opportunities, and a growing important that we work hard to stay Christ- tasks, and for times of rest, refreshment, and encouragement in the good work they do. community of scholars who hope their research will centred and to allow his kingdom values to impact the Church. influence all we do here, particularly how we Pray for our students now finishing their relate to each other. That’s one reason why programmes and transitioning into curacies, Learning to Disagree I was so pleased this last February to watch that God would supply every need as their During a plenary week on the issues of gender and sexuality, and listen to the ways in which our students families prepare to move and adjust to new students had the opportunity to disagree with the respect and engaged together during their plenary week circumstances. 19 generosity born of studying within a close-knit community. on issues around gender and human sexuality. And, finally, pleasepray for the college’s The week was very well organised and hosted leadership, as we work to develop new by our theology and ethics tutor, Rev Dr Jon pathways in mixed mode and pioneer training, Coutts. Jon put a huge amount of careful that we would have wisdom and insight into thought into how to shape the week and who how we can best prepare and serve the should contribute to the programme. Thinking Trinity College is a theological training college located in Bristol, England, dedicated to needs of our students, and of a changing and about how divisive this issue has been equipping students to live like the Kingdom of God is near as they prepare to lead churches evolving Church. and Christian ministries around the world. The college offers certificate, diploma, bachelor’s, recently elsewhere, I gave a notice in chapel graduate, and postgraduate programmes to both residential and nonresidential students. ahead of the week encouraging the college We are thankful for your partnership! community to approach these sensitive issues Trinity College News is published twice annually by the college to inform, serve, and connect with grace and in a prayerful attitude, and it Trinity’s alumni, students, and friends. To contact the editor, please email Melissa Stratis, appears this was heeded. My impression is [email protected], or call + 1 (44) 117 968 0205, or by mail at Trinity College, that the community is sensitively aware of Stoke Hill, Bristol, BS9 1JP. For more information about Trinity, including recent news and blog the pastoral issues, and most importantly was Rev Dr Emma Ineson posts, please visit www.trinitycollegebristol.ac.uk and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter able to express views confidently, and yet Principal and Instagram. 2 33 evening in March to watch the whole gospel of Open Day Trinity NEWS Mark performed from memory by actor Max McLean. The video was followed by a live video Last February we welcomed more than thirty conference call to Max, direct from Broadway, prospective students and their families, who talking about his performance and taking spent a Saturday with us to learn more about Trinity on the BBC students’ questions. Max is founder and artistic about our kingdom values and what it means director of Fellowship for Performing Arts, a to study in community, to hear from current New York City-based company producing live students and faculty, and, for thirteen of theatre from a Christian worldview. them, to complete interviews. Changes to Nursery This spring we officially renamed our Changing Tunes Concert nursery Muddy Boots Day Nursery, to Last autumn, Trinity hosted a Changing Tunes reflect one of the nursery’s key strengths— concert at college for anyone interested in all of the outdoor time our children enjoy attending. Changing Tunes is a Bristol-based through the enclosed play areas and use of the college’s nine acres for a forest school. ministry that seeks to impact the lives of prisoners and ex-prisoners through music. In Within the nursery itself, our Ladybirds (3 addition to excellent music and testimonies, the months to 2 years) now have a Discovery evening included a talk from Trinity alumnus Room for pretend play, toys, music, and quiet Rev Tony Williams, chaplain at HMP Eastwood areas, and a Creation Room, for messier Park, and provided an opportunity for our creative play. Our Busy Bees (ages 2 to 4 In February, we were pleased to welcome Communications Skills students to learn more about prison ministry. years) have an Imagination Room for pretend the BBC to college for a few days to film play, looking at books, and quiet areas; an segments for an episode of Songs of Praise Workshop Marriage & Ministry Evening Investigation Room to encourage problem- that celebrated the ordination of the first During the November 2016 block week, our solving skills and opportunities to bring the women priests in 1994 at Bristol Cathedral. students enjoyed a communications skills Last January, our spouse group Connect outside world indoors for nature and science Presenter David Grant chatted with Trinity workshop with Christina Walker, as part of hosted a Marriage and Ministry evening for experiments; and an Invention Room for students Thea Smith, Laura Douglas-Bate, the week’s preaching module. Christina is a the Trinity community. Missiology tutor Rev creative, sensory, and artistic experiences. and Laura Whitmarsh about their journeys Dr Howard Worsley and his wife, Ruth, who is visiting lecturer in voice and communication You can view the new nursery website to ordination, and about their experiences Bishop of Taunton, and Trinity staff member who also works with business and private at www.muddybootsdaynursery.co.uk. as women preparing to become vicars. The Malcolm Bourne and his wife, Lucy, shared clients who want to improve their presenting Places are available for both our student wisdom and insight with students on how to BBC crews joined the Trinity community and vocal skills. She has more than twenty families and families from our surrounding maintain healthy marriages in the midst of for chapel, a prayer meeting, lunch, and to years’ experience in professional theatre, neighbourhoods. watch the women’s rugby team practice. You television, and radio, and a master’s degree in different ministry roles and responsibilities. can watch clips from their visit on Trinity’s professional voice practice from Birmingham homepage when you click on ‘Trinity on the City University. The students spent the morning BBC’ (www.trinitycollegebristol.ac.uk). with Christina, thinking about methods and techniques for designing and delivering New Approach to Mark a memorable message. They completed exercises that looked at communication and This year, New Testament tutor Dr Jamie Davies ‘energy’ in presentation. In the afternoon, she taught a new course on Mark’s gospel, which led the group through relaxation techniques to met in the daytime for full-time students and in help to prepare for preaching and also provided the evening for part-time students. The course breathing and voice production coaching. took a narrative approach, studying Mark as a story, and looking at the storytelling features Mark uses to shape his account of Jesus. One of the insights scholars have found when studying Mark in this way is that it seems to have been crafted as a book to be read aloud to an audience.

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