Category Archives: Study groups
Mental health, imagination & spirituality
Psychotherapists, counsellors and others interested in mental health as well as spirituality may have spotted some interesting speakers at Wychwood Circle this autumn. After mindfulness in September, on November 3rd we have author Guy Stagg who has suffered with serious mental illness and who, as a non-believer, decided to undertake the 5,500km ‘pilgrimage’ from Canterbury to Jerusalem: he hiked on foot, alone, on ancient paths and busy routes, relying on the generosity of strangers all the way. The result is ‘The Crossway’ (Picador 2018), which mixes travel and memoir and where Guy Stagg (guystagg.co.uk) tells of his walk towards recovery and – a big question for us – ‘asks whether religion can still have meaning for those without faith’. Join us at Wychwood Library at 7pm. Continue reading Mental health, imagination & spirituality
Diving deeper into God’s Word
We have a new bible study group starting in the Benefice and everyone is welcome! The first meeting will be at 11.00 am on Wednesday 10th July and we will meet every second Wednesday of the month starting in September. Meetings will last about 1 hr -1.5 hrs and will take place in the North Transept room of Chadlington church.
We are going to look at John’s gospel to start with, and then plan to move on to the Psalms, Isaiah, Revelation and Job. There will be study notes and meetings will be largely discussion-based. You don’t need any previous knowledge or experience of bible study groups.
If you would be interested in attending, or if you would be interested in coming to a bible study group held at a different time, please let Ilona know by email here or have a word with her after a service.
FLUNG TO OPPOSING POLES – the state we’re in…
It hardly needs stating that we live in turbulent times. As yet more deadlines come and go and the UK increasingly becomes the focus of incredulity, hilarity or pity across the world, it is opportune that Wychwood Circle has two speakers in the next couple of months to help us think through a moral (and inevitably political) stance on the Brexit divisions. Continue reading FLUNG TO OPPOSING POLES – the state we’re in…
‘People like us’: are we now two tribes?
Sunday 12 May 2019
7 pm – Milton-under-Wychwood Village Hall
An Evening of Poetry
Sunday 14th April 2019
7 pm at Wychwood Library
Gender and Theology
Sunday 3rd March 2019
7 pm at Milton-under-Wychwood Village hall
Should it be a crime to rescue Refugees?
Friday 21 September 2018
The Friends Meeting House Charlbury at 8 pm
Because you are worth it: the politics of wellbeing
Sunday 14th October 2018
Wychwood Library at 7 pm
Paul’s World
Paul’s epistles or letters are the earliest Christian writings we have and date from before the Gospels were written (AD 49-65).
This year, we will be reading from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians for six weeks, from 3rd June to 8th July; and then from Ephesians for seven weeks, from 15th July to 26th August. We will return to his first letter to the Corinthians early next year. Continue reading Paul’s World
Chase Benefice 