A unique Continuing Education opportunity from Pilgrim Theological College at the NGV:
Do you use art as a way of engaging your community/congregation in liturgy or preaching and teaching? Or would you like to use art more readily to enhance your church’s life and witness, but are not confident in how to do this? Art is a powerful medium through which to understand both our surrounding culture and the faith of the church, and how those aspects relate to each other.
(Classes Thursdays 1- 5pm on May 2, 9, 16, 23, Sept 5, 12 & Oct 17)
Samuel Wells is a preacher, writer and theologian. He has served as Church of England parish priest in England for over 20 years, often in places of social disadvantage. Dr Wells spent seven years as Dean of Duke University Chapel in the US. He is currently priest at St Martin-in-the Fields, London, and visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s College London. He has published 30 books, including academic studies and textbooks in Christian ethics, explorations of social mission, liturgy and faith, and four collections of sermons.
His most recent book is Incarnational Mission: Being with the World.
Samuel Wells is a preacher, writer and theologian. He has served as Church of England parish priest in England for over 20 years, often in places of social disadvantage. Dr Wells spent seven years as Dean of Duke University Chapel in the US. He is currently priest at St Martin-in-the Fields, London, and visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s College London. He has published 30 books, including academic studies and textbooks in Christian ethics, explorations of social mission, liturgy and faith, and four collections of sermons.
His most recent book is Incarnational Mission: Being with the World.
At the heart of the Church lies a call to mission, to engage with the world. Dr Wells affirms the world as part of the kingdom, the sphere of
the Spirit’s work beyond the Church.With the introduction of the welfare state, the Church retreated from social engagement and “by concentrating on personal faith and spirituality, the churches denied themselves the lifeblood that social engagement had long given them” (For Good: The Church and the Future of Welfare).
