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| DIOCESAN NOTICES Diocesan Synod 2010 We ask that all Bills, Motions, Petitions and Reports be into the Diocesan Office on or before THIS FRIDAY 23 JULY 2010. A Guide to Synod Booklet available on our Website For those of you who will be attending Synod for the first time this year, or for anyone wanting to refresh themselves on why we have a Synod and what happens there, “A Guide to Synod” booklet has been placed on our Diocesan website; to access it please right click on the following link: http://www.dn.anglican.org.nz/resources/administrative/misc/Synod_hand_book.doc Please feel free to read or download a copy for your information. Seasons Programme Seasons is a programme of peer support groups for children who are experiencing loss or grief, perhaps due to the death of someone close to them, the separation or divorce of their parents, or other major family change. Seasons groups are available for children aged between 5 and 12. The groups are small, usually just three or four children close in age, with one or two trained adult Companions. The aim of the Seasons program is to provide children in the group with a safe time and place of their own, where they can explore their issues and feelings about loss and change. The approaches used may include music, stories, artwork, games and other activities suited to particular children, groups or ages. Topics introduced include: feelings, telling our stories, memories, changes, our strengths, and looking ahead. Each programme ends with a celebration. Seasons is offered as a community service by the Diocese of Dunedin. A new Seasons programme will begin in term 3 (27 July, 2010). If you wish to enrol or find out more information, please contact: Christine James 03 4740057 Cell/txt: 0274 489 690 E-mail: christinejames@xtra.co.nz Celtic Style Eucharist You are invited to participate in a Celtic Style Eucharist on Friday, 23rd July at 12.10p.m. in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. The theme will be "GOD ON THE EDGE---IONA AND COLUMBA" Please bring something to remind you of Iona and/or Columba, or something "edgy". It will be led by Bishop Kelvin Wright. More Info:- (03) 4772336; Everyone Welcome. All Saints, North Dunedin We invite you to join with us and the Bishop on Friday 23 July, at 7.00pm to celebrate the 145th anniversary of All Saints being dedicated and opened for public worship. We are celebrating with a Sung Eucharist at 7.00pm during which the Bishop will also dedicate two Sanctuary chairs and a “Bishop’s chair”. Following the Eucharist, you are also invited to a supper in the front All Saints Hall. Please bring something sweet and tasty for the supper. St Michael and All Angels Parish, Te Anau Celebrating 50 years of Ministry in Te Anau, Manapouri and Blackmount the weekend of Nov 21st. (Further information later.) |
| GENERAL NOTICES Christian Thought and History / Pastoral Theology Seminar Semester 2 ~ 2010 All seminars will be held in Burns 4C.11 / 3.00-4.15 p.m. The Seminar is hosted by the following staff: Dr Lynne Baab Professor Andrew Bradstock Dr Tim Cooper Associate Professor Murray Rae July 23 Andrew Nicol [PhD student, Christian Thought and History] "Is The 'God of Israel' The Father? An Analysis of Robert W. Jenson's Account." August 6 Professor Andrew Bradstock [Department of Theology and Religion] "Using 'God-talk' in a secular society: time for a new conversation on public issues?" August 20 Selwyn Yeoman [PhD student, Christian Thought and History] "From Eden to the New Jerusalem - Monastic traditions and ecologies for living between the times." September 10 Dr Tim Cooper [Department of Theology and Religion] "The Theology of John Owen and Richard Baxter: Contrasts and Common Ground" September 24 Don Fergus (topic to be confirmed) October 8 Dr Chris Holmes [Department of Theology and Religion] "Revelation in the Present Tense? Reflections on the Difference Christ Makes for the Interpretation of Scripture" Saint Luke’s Church Centenary 1910-2010 2010 marks the Centenary of St Luke’s Anglican Parish in Manurewa, Auckland. To celebrate they will be holding events over the week of the 7th – 14th November 2010. For more information please contact Gloria Mumby at glories.kitchen@xtra.co.nz or on 09 266-5266. RELIGION SEMINARS - Semester 2, 2010 The Religion seminar this semester will take the form of a reading group, which all are welcome to join. The book under discussion will be Timothy Fitzgerald's Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: A Critical History of Religion and Related Categories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). The book is available online for authorised users of the Otago University Library. The book is also readily available online through second-hand retailers. The first meeting will take place on 30 July, at 1pm in room 4C11 in the Arts Building. In this meeting we will discuss the first chapter of the book ('Introduction', pp. 3-41). The discussion will be preceded by a short introduction to Fitzgerald's earlier work, by Will Sweetman. The group will then meet fortnightly until 24 Sept, at 1pm on Fridays in 4C11. A schedule of meetings with the chapters to be discussed is available on the Religious Studies website: http://www.otago.ac.nz/religion/events.html For further information please contact the convenor of the seminar, Will Sweetman (will.sweetman@otago.ac.nz). Conference on Faith, Ethics and Public Life JIM WALLIS, best-selling author, public theologian, international speaker and one of President Barack Obama's key advisers on religious and ethical issues, will be taking part in a Conference on Faith, Ethics and Public Life hosted by the University’s Centre for Theology and Public Issues at Dunedin's historic First Church on Tuesday 28 September 2010. For any further enquiries please email: jimwallis.event@otago.ac.nz or call: 03 479 8450. Department Of Theology & Religion University of Otago Open Lecture Assoc. Professor Barbara Kaiser Department of Religion Wittenberg University, Ohio Divine Mayhem and Prophetic Rebuke: A Literary Reading of Isaiah 24 5.15 pm - Wednesday 21 July 2010 Archway 2 Lecture Theatre All Welcome National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies - Seminar Series PEACE AND THE UTOPIAN IMPERATIVE presented by Dr Peter Matheson Dr Matheson is a religious historian, author of many books on 16th century radicals and women; active in the peace movement in Scotland and New Zealand; regards utopian thought (Thomas More: Martin Luther King) as vital for offering horizons of hope. Wednesday 28 July 2010 - 12.00-1.30pm, in Commerce 2.04 (located on the second floor of the Commerce Building) A key feature of current political thinking in the West is pragmatism. We do what we conceive to be do-able. Our novelists, poets, visionaries, on the other hand, the Margaret Atwoods, the Coetzees etc., are dystopians, who see the future in the blackest, post-apocalyptic terms. Insofar as they have a horizon it is doom-laden. Most ordinary people in the West, therefore, since the only alternative future seems utterly terrifying, support politics which at best tinker with the poverty crisis, environmental meltdown etc. Effectively this strangles any hope for lasting peace. Ernst Bloch defines utopianism, on the other hand, as an ‘anticipatory consciousness’ of a ‘homeland’ of justice and peace. We can catch glimpses of this, he argues, in the ‘cultural surplus’ of religion, art, music, literature. Imaginative blueprints of a better world, not least socialist ones, have in fact been the drivers of progress in education, health, social welfare in New Zealand. If we are to drive progress in peace-making we urgently need to revive and reinvent the rich utopian tradition found, for example, in Renaissance humanism, 17th century radicalism, the Enlightenment, and Socialism. |
| DIOCESAN PRAYERS Please keep the following people in your prayers: Claire Johnson, Gillian Swift, Pamela Laytham, Gerald and Maureen Harley’s grandson and all their families. |
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