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My Mental Health and Spirituality WITH REV PROF JOHN SWINTON Event Date: Thursday 29 September 2022 Event Time:7:30 PM Venue: 70 Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HT Are science and faith opposed to one another? Does science disprove the existence of God? Or, alternatively, are science and the Christian faith complementary partners, together helping us to understand the … Read more
From the current spiralling cost of living crisis and growing inequality, to calls for payments for poorer nations to adapt to the growing challenge of climate change, to discussions of reparations for the historic damage of transatlantic slavery and colonialism, conversations about money really matter. Who has it, who hasn’t got it, and what it … Read more
After 16 years, the Rt Revd David Urquhart is preparing to retire from the post of Bishop of Birmingham. Bishop David’s final service, in which he will lay down the Birmingham Crosier, will take place in the presence of invited guests at St Philip’s Cathedral on Tuesday 18 October. The service will also be live-streamed on the … Read more
The Black Light course was developed 25 years ago by Les Isaac (Founder of the Ascension Trust, which runs Street Pastors) and Stuart Murray Williams (Trainer and consultant with the Anabaptist Network and Urban Expression). The course is not a knee-jerk response to current issues, therefore, but an ongoing engagement with contemporary concerns about racism … Read more
On Saturday 24 September, the Message Trust, in partnership with Youth For Christ, 24/7 Prayer, Scripture Union and Open Doors, will hold a Midlands Youth Conference in Derby. The aim of the conference is for 11 – 18 year-olds to be equipped in sharing the Good News of Jesus with their friends. The event will … Read more
On July 30th Alvechurch held their very own Games, celebrating the arrival of the Commonwealth Games just down the road. Alvechurch Games evening at the Baptist Church was never going to match the Commonwealth Games with its £millions budget just a few miles up the road in Birmingham. However the church organised a multi-event Team … Read more
A vibrant ecumenical ‘Service of Praise’ to welcome the Commonwealth Games to the West Midlands took place at St Chad’s Cathedral yesterday afternoon (Sunday 24 July). The service had been put together by Mgr Tim Menezes (Dean of St Chad’s Cathedral), Dr Beverly Lindsay OBE (Association of Jamaica Nationals UK), Laurence Sharman (World Prayer Centre) … Read more
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s ‘Difference‘ course will run in six weekly online sessions, beginning on Wednesday 7 September. The course is being sponsored by the Church of England Dioceses of Birmingham, Coventry and Lichfield, but is open to people of every Church background. A two-minute trailer can be viewed HERE. The course will run on Wednesday evenings via … Read more
Restore’s Annual Celebration was a great opportunity to bring together the ‘Restore family’ of refugees, asylum seekers, volunteers and supporters for the first event of its kind in 3 years. As an organisation focused on welcome and building relationships it was fantastic to meet old friends and find new ones. The Celebration was generously hosted … Read more