Friday 12th September, Leicester Cathedral Centre - 10am-3.30pmWith guest speaker Canon Sam Wells
Described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as “an outstanding thinker and an outstanding pastor”, we are fortunate to have Sam Wells leading a day of theological and pastoral reflection which will no doubt be both spiritually nourishing and intellectually stimulating.
The day will be comprised of three addresses:
Ministry
The first address will focus on power. A whole generation of clergy lost the ability and vocabulary to talk about power, and, as a result, lost touch with a sense of their own power. The first address will reopen the conversation about the power of ministry and seek to identify where that power specifically lies.
Mission
It is commonplace for Anglicans to talk about incarnational ministry but less common for that ministry to be grounded in a description of mission that emphasizes the abundance of God. This address explores three models of ministry and commends one that most aptly imitates the shape of Jesus’ life.
Money
Money is the elephant in the room for many clergy and diocesan conversations, and there is difficulty in talking theologically about it for all the reasons highlighted in the first two addresses. This third address seeks a theological and practical way of conceiving money in the kingdom of God’s abundance.
Sam was born in Canada. He studied in Oxford, Edinburgh and Durham, and then served in parish ministry for fourteen years in Newcastle, Norwich and Cambridge. In 2005 he moved to North Carolina to become Dean of Chapel at Duke University and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. He has written several books on theological ethics, including God’s Companions, Improvisation and Transforming Fate into Destiny. Most recently he wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book in 2007, Power and Passion.
Open to all - booking necessary. Contact Claire Stapleton, Tel: 0116 248 7417 or E-mail: claire.stapleton@leccofe.org
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