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21 Sept 2005

Bridge Builders' Annual Report

Alastair McKay is pleased to announce the publication of the latest annual report for Bridge Builders entitled, Journeying Towards Reconciliation.  The report looks back at Bridge Builders’ achievements over the last five years, as well as flagging up accomplishments in 2004.

22 Sept 2005

Subversive Church — What kind of church would change the world?

The Wood Green Mennonite Church invites all to a café church discussion including film clips on being a radical church in today's world. Thursday 22 Sept. 7.30 p.m. at the Crypt Café, St Mary's, Islington

15 July 2005

Bombs in London: To whom do we look?

Bridge Builders' director Alastair McKay highlights some issues in response to the recent terror in London.

08 July 2005

Bombs in London

The LMC staff are grateful for the thoughts and prayers of supporters and friends around the globe following the bombs in central London yesterday. Bridge Builders were in the middle of hosting a week-long training course on congregational conflict and took time out to catch up with the breaking news on the TV and to pray. Public transportation was severely disrupted and we hosted extra people overnight as a result.

The Wood Green Mennonite Church had a few members who were very close to some of the incidents in central London but thankfully were unharmed.

Do visit Ekklesia's web site for relevant news on this and other important issues.

Check out Transport for London for the latest travel updates.

29 June 2005

New staff person for Bridge Builders

The London Mennonite Centre is delighted to announce that the Rev. Colin Patterson has agreed to join the staff of Bridge Builders, beginning in October 2005.  Colin will take on the role of assistant director of Bridge Builders, working alongside the director, Alastair McKay, and trainer and mediator, Charletta Erb.  Colin will stay living in Durham, and his responsibilities will include leading training events and mediation processes, and development of the Bridge Builders’ Mediators’ Network in the north of England. 

Colin is an Anglican priest, ordained in 1987, and currently serving as Lay Development Officer in the Anglican Diocese of Durham.  He is the author of the Grove Booklet How to Learn Through Conflict: A Handbook for Leaders in Local Churches.  Prior to ordination, Colin worked as a Chemistry teacher for nine years.  He is married to Rosie, and they are the parents of two sons, Jonathan and Campbell.

28 June 2005

Autumn Programme Announced

The LMC's autumn programme of events kicks off on Friday 23 September with a discussion of The Nicene Creed and Peace Theology with Vic Thiessen. Other highlights include Michael Northcott (author of An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire) and Gareth Higgins (author of How Movies Helped Save My Soul)

Metanoia Bookservice also has its new titles list for autumn available for download. Included is Tom Finger's long awaited Contemporary Anabaptist Theology: Biblical, Historical, Constructive.

10 May 2005

Vic Thiessen on the Cinematic Christ

Vic Thiessen, executive director of the London Mennonite Centre, believes that the movie medium’s tremendous power to influence lives, thoughts and even beliefs makes film-watching vital to understand the modern world, even if the messages do not always fit into Christian theology. Read more in The Mennonite Church Canada's article on the LMC Director's movie nights.

8 February 2005

The Church After Christendom now in stock!

Stuart Murray Williams' latest title in the After Christendom series is now in stock at £8.99 plus p&p.
"How will the western church negotiate the demise of Christendom? Can it rediscover its primary calling, recover its authentic ethos and regain its nerve? If churches are to thrive – or even survive – disturbing questions need to be confronted and answered. In conversation with Christians who have left the church and with those who are experimenting with fresh expressions of doing church, Stuart Murray explores both the emerging and inherited church scenes and makes proposals for the development of an ecclesiology suitable for a post-denominational, post-commitment and post- Christendom era. With chapters on mission, community and worship, this comprehensive and accessible book offers a vision of a way of being church that is healthy, sustainable, liberating, peaceful and missional."

Post Christendom, Metanoia's Book of the Year 2004, the first in the series, is also available at £9.99 plus p&p

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