BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harrogate School of Theology & Mission - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hstm.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Harrogate School of Theology & Mission REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260328T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260328T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20250601T162804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260418T194908Z UID:1825-1774692000-1774699200@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Janet Williams DESCRIPTION:Julian of Norwich and the Last Judgement\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 28th March 2026\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n£10 (including breakfast and refreshments)\nStudents: £7; Under 18s free.\nZoom live-stream: £5 per person\, must be purchased online in advance.Buy tickets on EventBrite\n\n\n\n“To a church apparently obsessed with sin\, death and ‘Doom’ the fourteenth-century visionary Julian of Norwich proposed that there is no anger in God towards us\, that God finds in us nothing that needs forgiveness\, and that sin itself is ‘behovely’ (fitting). Julian also claims to be faithful to the traditional teaching of the Church\, yet she has been described as putting a bomb under the church’s teaching on divine anger\, a bomb which left no part standing. How can we make sense of this\, and do we dare to believe her?” \nSpeaker Bio \nJanet studied Classics and Philosophy at Oxford University before competing a Masters Degree in Patristic Theology at Oxford\, and a PhD in Religious Studies with the University of Winchester. A stint in investment banking in London and Tokyo was followed by a career in education\, teaching Religious Studies\, Theology\, Classics\, and Philosophy at universities and colleges in Japan and the UK. Ordained in Gloucester in 2009\, she served as a Minister in Secular Employment before taking up leadership of the West of England Ministry Training Course in 2012. She joined St Hild theological college as Vice Principal in summer 2018 and lives in Mirfield. \nBuy tickets on EventBrite URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2025-janet-williams/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/janet-williams.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260124T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260124T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20250601T162711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260314T102934Z UID:1823-1769248800-1769256000@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Isabelle Hamley DESCRIPTION:Happy are those: happiness\, wellbeing and the life of faith in the Psalms\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 24th January 2026\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nHappiness is big business in the world out there: it motivates consumerism\, advertising\, political choices\, and shapes communities; lack of happiness is often associated with mental health struggles. Yet the church rarely speaks of happiness\, or of how a Christian framework may help us think of happiness in faithful and distinctive ways. This talk will explore how the Psalms help think about happiness\, its contours and its challenges\, and how we can develop a positive Christian vision for wellbeing. \nSpeaker Bio \nDr Hamley is the Principal of Ridley Hall\, a theological college in Cambridge. Isabelle’s first love is Scripture\, and the Old Testament in particular. She has written extensively about the book of Judges\, and around questions of justice\, violence and otherness. She is now writing a commentary on the book of Ruth. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2026-isabelle-hamley/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Isabelle-hamley.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251115T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251115T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20250601T162617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260314T103112Z UID:1821-1763200800-1763208000@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Guy Donegan-Cross DESCRIPTION:Discipleship: So What?\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 15th November 2025\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\n“Why do we even use this word? I have no idea what it really means.” \nEvery denomination says making disciples is the main priority. But discipleship can be a mystifying thing. What does it really mean? How can it be a gift\, rather than a stumbling block?\nAnd\, even if we have an inkling of its meaning\, what is really different about Christian disciples? In our lived experience? \nAfter all\, in many ways people of faith\, no faith or some faith seem to live quite similar lives. We are born\, we work\, we shop\, we sleep\, we love\, we struggle\, we laugh\, we cry\, we pay taxes (perhaps!) and we die (definitely!). If you’re interested in the questions ‘What difference does this make?’ Or ‘What is the way?’ this HSTM morning is for you. It is a little bit about what Christians believe\, but it is more about how what Christians believe shapes our lives. \nGuy Donegan-Cross will introduce two books he has published this year with BRF: Discipleship: Start this Way and Discipleship: Walk this Way as a way of exploring these questions. Both books are available to order now at brfonline.org.uk/guy-donegan-cross. \nSpeaker Bio \nGuy is currently Enabler of Learning for Discipleship and Mission for Church of England Birmingham\, where he has responsibility for resourcing a culture of discipleship across a hugely diverse area. He has engaged in parish ministry in four different contexts\, most recently leading St Mark’s\, Harrogate. He is chair of the Simeon’s patronage trust\, with responsibility for the patronage of 180 livings across England. He is passionate about discipleship\, the relationship between charismatic and contemplative spirituality\, and political and environmental concerns. He loves amateur dramatics\, improvisation\, live music\, novels\, walking\, jazz\, and his Norfolk Terrier Bess. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2025-guy-donegon-cross/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/guy-dc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250913T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250913T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20250601T162507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260314T102838Z UID:1819-1757757600-1757764800@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - David Ford DESCRIPTION:St. John’s Gospel: A Lifetime’s Study\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 13th September 2025\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nAfter spending over twenty years on ‘The Gospel of John. A Theological Commentary‘ (2021) and then a few more years on a follow-up ‘Lent Plus’ book\, ‘Meeting God in John: A Companion for Lent\, Holy Week\, Easter\, and Beyond‘ (November 2025)\, I want to share some of the main insights that John has given me. These include seeking answers ro questions such as:  What was John’s aim in writing the Gospel? How should we understand the Prologue? Who is Jesus? What is the meaning of his crucifixion? What are the essential Christian practices taught by Jesus? Can John give us a spirituality for serious times such as ours? How can we share in Jesus’s passionate desire for the unity in love of his followers? How should we read John now? \nSpeaker Bio \nDavid F. Ford OBE is Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. \nAlongside continuing work on Christian theology and on inter-faith relations\, Professor Ford’s current research includes work on: the Gospel of John; glorification; theology\, modernity and the arts; Scriptural Reasoning; contemporary worldviews; and education in schools and universities. In 2021 Baker Academic published The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary. \nDavid was born in Dublin and is an Irish citizen. He read Classics at Trinity College Dublin\, and then Theology and Religious Studies in Cambridge\, Yale\, and Tübingen. Prior to taking up his post in Cambridge he taught in the University of Birmingham (1976-1991)\, where he lived in the inner city and engaged in local church and community life and in urban theology. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2025-david-ford/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/david-ford.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250322T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250322T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20240522T190019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061450Z UID:1446-1742637600-1742644800@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Nicola Slee DESCRIPTION:Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord’s Prayer (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 22th March 2025\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nThe Lord’s Prayer is a prayer text and practice that unites Christians worldwide and puts us in touch with Jesus and Christians throughout the ages. People of other faiths and traditions are also drawn to this prayer. But how do we pray this prayer today\, in light of our growing awareness of the dangers of patriarchal and monarchical language and thinking? In this lecture\, Nicola Slee will share something of her own journey with the Lord’s Prayer and suggest that we are called\, not so much to repeat the prayer unvaryingly\, as to live in its pattern and improvise around it to find our own authentic way of praying and our own authentic relationship to the Abba Amma God of Jesus. \nSpeaker Bio \nProfessor Nicola Slee is a well-known writer and speaker\, theologian and poet. She is Professorial Research Fellow at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education\, Birmingham and Professor of Feminist Practical Theology at the Vrije Universiteit\, Amsterdam. The lecture will be based on Nicola’s recent book of the same name\, and she will bring copies to sell at a discount URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2025-nicola-slee/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Nicola-Slee-416x360-1-e1716406388376.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250118T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250118T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20240522T185903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061546Z UID:1444-1737194400-1737201600@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Arun Arora DESCRIPTION:Living Faithfully: Rediscovering Michael Ramsey’s Five Spiritual Helps (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 18th January 2025\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nIn a highly appropriate lecture for the New Year\, the Rt Revd Dr Arun Arora\, Bishop of Kirkstall\, will lecture on Living Faithfully: Rediscovering Michael Ramsey’s Five Spiritual Helps.\nMichael Ramsey (the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury\, 1961-1974) offered his Five Helps as spiritual principles for living a faithful Christian life. Although Ramsay formulated these many decades ago\, Bishop Arun will help us to understand how relevant they remain and how we can use them as foundations for a Christ-centered life. \nBishop Arun is known as a thought-provoking and entertaining speaker\, and we are delighted that he is able to give this lecture. \nSpeaker Bio \nBishop Arun trained and worked as an employment lawyer before moving into public relations as Director of Communications for Birmingham diocese Press Officer for the Bishop of Birmingham. Whilst training for ordination and serving his curacy at St Mark’s in Harrogate\, he was also Director of Communications for the Archbishop of York. Following a time in Pioneer Ministry in the West Midlands\, he served as Director of Communications for the Archbishops’ Council before returning north as vicar of St Nicholas’ Church\, Durham. He was appointed Bishop of Kirkstall in the Diocese of Leeds in 2022. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2025-arun-arora/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1671033415-xaGCsHkr-e1716406256477.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241123T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241123T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20240522T185642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061606Z UID:1441-1732356000-1732363200@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Alan Garrow DESCRIPTION:The Didache Discoveries: Two Missing Books of the Bible (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 23rd November 2024\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nAlan has recorded an introductory video on YouTube – see below \nIn 1873 Archbishop Philotheos Bryennios discovered the only surviving copy of a text called ‘The Didache’ or ‘The Teaching of the Lord\, by the Twelve Apostles\, to the Gentiles’. This book nearly achieved inclusion in the New Testament canon. After it was placed in the ‘second rank’\, it disappeared for well over a thousand years. Since its rediscovery it has baffled scholars. No one has been able to work out who wrote it\, when\, where or why. In this lecture Alan Garrow presents a new solution to the puzzle. The Didache is not a single text. Instead\, it is two that have been spliced together and overlaid with additional material. When that process is reversed two ancient treasures emerge. The first is the Complete Apostolic Decree (mentioned in Acts 15)\, the earliest Christian document and the text that set Christianity on course to become a religion separate from Judaism. The second is the Missing Epistle of John (mentioned in 3 John 9)\, a text that helps illuminate doctrines and practices that remain essential for Christians today. \nSpeaker Bio \nAlan Garrow is Vicar of St Peter’s Harrogate and a Member of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. He has published widely in the field of New Testament studies and has a particular interest in how the New Testament texts were used in early Christian worship. More information about his research and writing is available at www.alangarrow.com. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2024-alan-garrow/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Alan-Headshot-Square-e1716406211224.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240928T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240928T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20240522T185410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061647Z UID:1431-1727517600-1727524800@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - David M. Moffitt DESCRIPTION:Looking through the Kaleidoscope: Hebrews’ Use of Old Testament Narratives in the Light of Jesus’ Ascension and Awaited Return (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 28th September 2024\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nHebrews’ engagement with the Old Testament is among the most exciting and creative in the New Testament. It creates a kaleidoscope of Biblical texts so that their interaction draws out the author’s fundamental convictions about Jesus. The resulting images bring out new theological insights about Jesus and the congregation. \nWe will explore three Old Testament figures mentioned in Hebrews—the high priest\, Moses\, and Joshua. \nAll three of these figures left God’s people to do important work for them\, before returning. This return of the absent figure forms a significant\, part of Hebrews’ argument. Thus joined together they illuminate who Jesus is. They also show what the ascended Christ is doing for us now and how we should understand our own identity and situation as we await his return. \nDavid Moffitt is one of the very few contemporary scholars to provide fresh and compelling readings of the enigmatic Letter to the Hebrews. I have learned an enormous amount from him; in fact I credit him with transforming my whole understanding of sacrifice in biblical thought. Also\, unlike some top exegetical scholars\, he is a lively and engaging speaker! – Tom Wright \nSpeaker Bio \nDr Moffitt was appointed Reader in New Testament Studies at St Andrews University in 2013\, having previously taught New Testament at Duke Divinity School and Campbell University Divinity School. His research interests orbit around the various ways the earliest Christians understood Jesus and their own identities in relation to Jewish scripture\, practices\, and beliefs. His work is especially focused on the Epistle to the Hebrews and the strategies the text employs to interpret early Christian claims about Jesus’ person\, death\, resurrection\, and ascension in high-priestly and sacrificial terms. His book on Hebrews (Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews) attempts to show that the Christology and Soteriology developed by the author rests upon his correlation of the basic narrative of early Christian proclamation (i.e.\, Jesus’ life\, death\, resurrection\, and ascension) with the ritual process of the Yom Kippur sacrifices\, the end goal of which was the restoration and maintenance of fellowship between God and creation (i.e.\, atonement). URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2024-david-moffitt/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ImportedProfilePhoto.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240309T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240309T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20230530T062033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061702Z UID:1066-1709978400-1709985600@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Mark Oakley DESCRIPTION:‘The curse of literalism’: poetic spirituality and the language of Christians (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 9th March 2024\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n\n\nGeneral admission: £8\nStudent admission: £5\nUnder 18s: free\nZoom admission: £5\n\n\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nMark Oakley will address the questions\, ‘How should Christians use language? How should they express their belief and what language is needed for self-scrutiny? He will then argue that poetry is the native language of faith and that a crude literalism simmers down the richness and resonance that faith liberates in us. In this talk\, Mark will use some poems explore his theme. \nSpeaker Bio \nThe Very Reverend Dr Mark Oakley was ordained at St Paul’s Cathedral in 1993 and served his curacy at St John’s Wood Church. He was later appointed Chaplain to the Bishop of London and after four years was made Rector of the Actors’ church in Covent Garden. \nHe has subsequently served as an archdeacon in the Diocese in Europe\, Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral and Dean of St John’s College\, Cambridge. Mark holds a PhD in English Literature and is an admired author of several books on poetry and spirituality. He has enjoyed success with his most recent book The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry\, being described by Poet Laureate\, Dame Carol Ann Duffy\, as “beautiful and wise.” He is well known as a speaker and preacher and has been awarded both the Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing and the Lanfranc award\, by the Archbishop of Canterbury\, for education and scholarship. Mark has a strong commitment to human rights and has served on the board of Liberty and the Civil Liberties Trust\, as well as being awarded one of the first ‘Upstander’ awards for his work with hate crime victims. \nKing’s College London awarded him a Fellowship in recognition of his work and ministry. Mark was installed as the Dean of Southwark in early December 2023. \nAmongst his many roles\, Mark is also Canon Theologian at Wakefield Cathedral. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2024-mark-oakley/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Oakley-300_1-e1697790566817.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240127T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240127T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20230530T061642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061715Z UID:1063-1706349600-1706356800@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Mark Vasey-Saunders DESCRIPTION:Why can’t the church talk about sexuality (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 27th January 2024\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n\n\nGeneral admission: £8\nStudent admission: £5\nUnder 18s: free\nZoom admission: £5\n\n\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nPlease note that this lecture aims to explore why this topic has been\, and continues to be\, so difficult for the church to discuss\, rather than arguing for one side or the other.\nWe are delighted to welcome Rev’d Dr Mark Vasey-Saunders to deliver a live lecture for Harrogate School of Theology and Mission on Saturday 27th January 2024\, at St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, starting at 10 am on the important topic\, Why can’t the church talk about sexuality? \nA common conceptualisation of the current debate over sexuality is that it is one between traditionalists and revisionists. In this lecture\, Mark Vasey-Saunders argues that this is based on a misunderstanding of the degree to which both conservatives and liberals represent a break with earlier tradition. The current sexuality debate is between two different ways of interpreting the tradition of the church in a modern context. \nSpeaker Bio\nMark studied English Literature and History in York at the then University College of Ripon & York St John\, and briefly worked for IFES in Ukraine before training for ordination at Cranmer Hall. He has worked in several different dioceses as a University Chaplain\, Team Vicar & Pioneer Minister and more recently as Academic Tutor for St Hild College. He completed his PhD from Durham on Evangelical responses to homosexuality in 2013. He oversees the formation of part time and full time Anglican ordinands at St Hild Sheffield\, as well as coordinating the College’s work with Curates. He leads modules in Postgraduate study skills\, Doctrine\, Ethics\, and Anglicanism. Mark is married to Leah\, who is the Vicar of Lancaster Priory Church and Chair of On Fire Mission. \nMark Vasey-Saunders’s new book Defusing the Sexuality Debate was published in June 2023 \nReviews of this book:\nThis book could not be more timely and helpful for those on all sides of the debate. Mark explores the recent history of the evangelical writing on sexuality and deconstructs the idea of an unchanging evangelical consensus on these questions. He opens up an excellent third way for evangelicals to hold diverse views on sexuality questions without scapegoating others or unnecessary division. One of the most helpful books on this debate I’ve yet read. The Right Revd Steven Croft\nMark Vasey-Saunders has written a timely\, wise and essential book\, taking current sexuality debates and placing them in a deeper cultural context. All parties should step back and read this clear and eirenic book with humility and openness. \n The Right Revd Nicholas Baines \nWhatever our perspective on sexuality\, Mark Vasey-Saunders is an essential conversation partner who raises crucial questions. Did the earliest Christians teach what is now presented as the traditional view on sexuality? What is really at stake in the current conflict? How can we avoid demonising each other? Defusing the Sexuality Debate approaches this thorniest of contemporary issues with integrity\, humility and rigour. The result is a significant and consequential intervention – one of few contributions with the potential to open up genuinely new horizons. Mark’s careful research empowers us to think more deeply\, and it won’t leave readers unchanged. At its heart is an eirenic plea: we can understand each other better; we can take a longer view; we can be the community of peace the gospel deserves and our world needs. \n Prof Mark Powell \nMark Vasey-Saunders has established himself as one of the sharpest and most insightful commentators now writing on the disputes over sexuality in the Church of England. If the Church is to be delivered from the compulsions that are tearing it apart\, then earnestly heeding his call for Christian humility and heart-searching truthfulness may just be its best hope. \n Prof Robert Song URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2024-mark-vasey-saunders/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/saunders-e1704530085986.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231125T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231125T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20230530T060916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061737Z UID:1059-1700906400-1700913600@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Esther Swaffield DESCRIPTION:Fixing Systems Not Just Symptoms: The Biblical Call to Justice with International Justice Mission (IJM) (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 25th November 2023\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n\nGeneral admission: £8\nStudent admission: £5\nUnder 18s: free\nZoom admission: £5\n\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nAs we seek to live out the call of Micah to act justly\, love mercy and walk humbly with God\, what does it look like to meet the immediate needs of those experiencing oppression and violence\, whilst also reforming the systems that perpetuate injustice? \nIn this live lecture\, we will be considering the Biblical call to justice; diving into real examples of where International Justice Mission are working on the ground to see freedom\, justice and transformation. We will explore how we can take action to bring greater justice and mercy in our world today. \nWith around 50 million people trapped in slavery\, 1 in 4 of these children\, this is a massive issue for our world. How might we engage as individuals and churches to help end slavery in our lifetime? \nhttps://www.ijmuk.org \nhttps://www.ijmuk.org/our-work \nSpeaker Bio \nEsther Swaffield\, part of the UK leadership for IJM will lead this lecture. She heads a dynamic team who work across the UK to engage local partners\, champions and supporters in this global movement to end slavery and violent oppression. She is a gifted communicator and loves sharing stories of breakthroughs from around the world. Esther is based in Durham. \nThe Work of International Justice Mission\nInternational Justice Mission is a global organisation working with partners to protect people in poverty from slavery\, trafficking and violence.\nAs the world’s largest international anti-slavery organisation\, the IJM mission is to rescue millions\, protect half a billion and make justice for people in poverty unstoppable. \nEnding slavery and human trafficking is possible – when people around the world choose to act. \nIJM’s work involves: bringing people to safety\, bringing criminals to justice and strengthening justice systems. They recruit local teams and work with local partners. Survivors regularly become part of the work and leaders themselves. IJM builds trust by tackling individual cases then moves on to system-wide change.\nIJM are making a major impact in a range of locations and independent reviews are showing a 50-85% reduction in slavery and trafficking in areas where they are working. \nhttps://www.ijmuk.org \nIJM need our help as champions to advocate for protection as an essential and tangible future for everyone. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2023-esther-swaffield/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Esther-Swaffield-e1697790680181.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231007T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231007T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20230106T090814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061856Z UID:964-1696672800-1696680000@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Lecture - Professor Paul Foster DESCRIPTION:Special offer – buy a 2023/24 season lecture pass\, and attend all four lectures for the price of three. \n\n\nMeet the Apostolic Fathers: Christianity in the first half of the Second Century (live lecture)\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 7th October 2023\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n\nGeneral admission: £8\nStudent admission: £5\nUnder 18s: free\nZoom admission: £5\n\n2023/4 Lecture Pass:\nBuy tickets to all 4 lectures for the price of 3\nTickets for just this lecture:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nDuring the first and second centuries a group of miscellaneous Christian leaders wrote down their understanding of the meaning of Jesus Christ’s life\, death and resurrection. These authors were considered by later Biblical scholars to be the next generation of Apostles and as a result were named The Apostolic Fathers\, and their works are considered by many to be the most important collection of post-New Testament writings. Indeed a number of these texts were considered for inclusion in the New Testament\, but later rejected. Their obvious significance stems from the fact that they are the first Christian writings produced outside the New Testament Canon and as such contain an essential insight into the development of the early Christian Church and Christian thinking. Much Christian Doctrine came\, not from the New Testament\, but from the writings produced by the early church and in particular the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. Therefore\, these texts are crucial to an understanding of the shaping of Christian thought and Christian doctrine. \nThis lecture is the rescheduled March lecture. \nSpeaker Bio \nProf Paul Foster’s says: \nMy motivation for undertaking theological studies was to be able to read the Bible in its original languages. Although achieving this goal was not something that was quickly realised\, the benefits have been enormous. Reading the New Testament in the very words that the authors penned opens up new horizons of understanding\, it helps one see the original writers’ concerns more clearly\, and brings the world of the New Testament alive. \nI enjoy working across a range of New Testament and Early Christian literature\, since that permits a holistic view of the development and emergence of the early Jesus movement. In particular in relation to the New Testament\, I have worked on pre-gospel sources such as Q\, and the M source although I am sceptical that the latter ever existed as a coherent source. In relation to the New Testament writing a long-term interest is the Gospel of Matthew\, and several letters of Paul including Colossians and the Thessalonian epistles. Furthermore\, the phenomenon of wider gospel literature\, known as the non-canonical gospels\, is also another area that has fascinated me as a window into the piety of early believers. I have written extensively on the text known as the Gospel of Peter\, as well as a range of other non-canonical gospels. \nA final major area of interest in my academic biography is collection of writings known as the Apostolic Fathers. These writings reflect the emergence of structures that became foundational in the early church. The writings of Ignatius and Polycarp depict early Christianity in the first half of the second century. \nTogether these interests permit an overview of Christianity in the first two centuries of its existence. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2023-professor-paul-foster/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Paul-Foster-2-e1697790656557.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230513T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230513T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20230106T082534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T061916Z UID:954-1683972000-1683979200@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Bishop Rowan Williams (Archbishop Emeritus of Canterbury) DESCRIPTION:“Contemplative life and urban mission”\nWe are delighted to welcome back the former Archbishop of Canterbury\, Rowan Williams\, who delighted us with back in 2014 with his lecture on the Gospel of John. This lecture addresses some intriguing issues in modern contemplative spirituality and its missional opportunities. Bishop Rowan tells us\, “We will look briefly at two twentieth century figures – Mother Maria Skobtsova and Madeleine Delbrêl – who attempted to live out a contemplative vocation in the setting of modern urban poverty\, and will ask what we can learn from them about integrating contemplation and action.” \nVenue: St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option) \nDate: Saturday 13th May\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am \nBooking: STILL ONLY £8.00 per session (price held since 2013) including a continental breakfast and mid-morning refreshments; students: £5 per lecture; under 18s free. \nFees payable on the day by contactless card\, cheque (to Harrogate School of Theology and Mission) or preferably in advance by the online booking system EventBrite \nZoom live-stream of lectures: £5 per person\, under 18s free. \nSpeaker Biography\nBishop Rowan Williams (Baron Williams of Oystermouth) is a Welsh Anglican bishop\, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury\, a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales\, Williams was the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times not to be appointed from within the Church of England. \nHaving spent much of his earlier career as an academic at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford successively\, Williams speaks three languages and reads at least nine. After standing down as Archbishop\, Williams took up the position of Chancellor of the University of South Wales in 2014 and served as Master of Magdalene College\, Cambridge between 2013 and 2020. Now retired\, Bishop Rowan is much in demand as an author and speaker. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/archbishop-rowan-williams-2023/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_3580.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230121T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230121T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20230106T084235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062027Z UID:956-1674295200-1674302400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Dr Eve Poole OBE (Online only) DESCRIPTION:Capitalism and Christianity \nWe live and function in a capitalist society\, but how often do we stop to examine and question the values and assumptions underlying this approach to economics\, which has such a pervasive effect on our society?  Under the broad umbrella of Capitalism and Christianity\, Eve will cover her books on Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions and Theology and Consumerism. How best should Christians grapple with Capitalism\, and what is our role in the economy? \nVenue: Online only (Zoom) \nDate: Saturday 21st January\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon. \nBooking: Zoom live-stream of lectures: £6 per person\, under 18s free. \n  \nSpeaker Bio \nEve started her career at the Church Commissioners for England\, after gaining a BA in Theology from Durham University. She returned to education to gain an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Business School where she won AMBA Student of the Year. She then honed her business skills at top consulting firm Deloitte\, specialising in change management in the financial services industry. In 2010\, Eve combined her two careers by gaining a PhD in Capitalism and Theology from Cambridge University. Currently\, she focuses on her leadership practice\, where she has held roles as Third Church Estates Commissioner\, Chairman of Gordonstoun\, and Interim CEO of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was awarded OBE for services to Education and to Gender Equality in 2022. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/dr-eve-poole/ LOCATION:On-line by zoom only CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eve-poole.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221119T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221119T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20220311T153153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062100Z UID:778-1668852000-1668859200@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Revd Roy Searle DESCRIPTION:‘Wisdom from the past\, illumine our path for today’: how St Benedict and Celtic spirituality is inspirational for these changing world times. \nIt couldn’t be timelier as\, in the words of Bob Dylan’s song\, The Times They area Changin’\, and the world is being shaken. As Roy puts it\, ‘The tectonic plates\, politically\, economically\, environmentally and societally are shifting. The idea of returning to normal is to deny reality. In the light of such a changing world and church\, we ask\, How Then Shall We Live? How do we sing the Lord song in a strange land? What does it mean to love God and follow Christ in a changing world?  As we embrace the challenges and opportunities of the present times look to the future that is uncertain\, we will explore the wisdom that comes to us in scripture and the monastic traditions of Benedictine and Celtic spirituality. In an emerging new Dark Age they speak of light with which to illumine our paths.’ \nVenue: St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option) \nDate: Saturday 19th November\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am \nBooking: STILL ONLY £8.00 per session (price held since 2013) including a continental breakfast and mid-morning refreshments; students: £5 per lecture; under 18s free. \nFees payable on the day by contactless card\, cheque (to Harrogate School of Theology and Mission) or preferably in advance by the online booking system Eventbrite. \nZoom live-stream of lectures: £5 per person\, under 18s free. Booking via Eventbrite. \n  URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/revd-roy-searle/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Roy-Searle.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220924T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220924T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20220311T152837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062145Z UID:776-1664017200-1664024400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Revd Dr Lucas Mix DESCRIPTION:How is Heaven related to Space?\nGalileo famously quipped “The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven – not how heaven goes.” Jesus Ascension was not the same as the ascent of a rocket. But what is the relationship between life in heaven and life in outer space? Lucas Mix will talk about the history of ascent narratives\, tales of journeying into the heavens\, both scientific and spiritual – from Plato to Carl Sagan and The Expanse. For centuries\, physical and spiritual “up” were aligned in the popular imagination. Astronomy and biology have revealed more complex – but no less Biblical – models for the place and direction of life in the cosmos. Come find out more about the stories we tell and why they matter for the future of humanity. \nAttending in person\, the cost is £8.00\, including continental breakfast available from 9.30am\, and mid-morning refreshments; students: £5 ; under 18s free. Fees payable preferably in advance by the online booking system Eventbrite or on the day by contactless card or cheque (to Harrogate School of Theology and Mission)\, but not by cash. \nZoom live-stream of lectures: £5 per person\, under 18s free. Booking via Eventbrite. \nYoung People’s Essay Writing Competition \nHarrogate School of Theology and Mission is delighted to sponsor an essay writing competition for those aged 18 or under. There is a prize of £100 for the winner. One submission per student and it must be the entrants own independent\, original work. \nWe have chosen the topic of science and religion because our first speaker of the season is The Revd Dr Lucas Mix. He will be giving a lecture for us on 24thSeptember 2022\, entitled:  How is Heaven related to Space?. Any under 18s attending the lecture get free entry (which includes a continental breakfast).  The details are as follows: \nEssay title:                 Is God or science the more rational way to explain the universe? Are they inevitably opposed ways of understanding why we are here? \nWord count:              1000 words maximum \nClosing date:             by 19.00 on 30th September 2022 \nAdvice:                       The judges are looking for: \n\nA clear essay which is well-evidenced and reaches a clear conclusion\nSubmissions that do not exceed 1\,000 words (excluding references)\nReferenced sources of information\nSubmissions which are the entrant’s own work and relevant to the title and guidance\n\nSubmit entries by email to:      revd.linda.boon@gmail.com \nTerms and Conditions \n\nBy entering the competition\, entrants agree to these terms and conditions. Failure to comply with these terms and conditions may result in disqualification.\nEntries must be in English and submitted by email\, with the required accompanying information:\n\nFull name\nDate of birth\n\n\n\n\nName of school or place of education attended\n\n\nThere is a limit of one entry per student.\nThe competition closes on 30 September 2022 (19.00). Entries will not be accepted after this time.\nEntries will be judged by a panel of judges from Harrogate School of Theology and Mission. The judging criteria will include:\n\nA clear essay which is well-evidenced and reaches a clear conclusion\nSubmissions should not exceed 1\,000 words\n\n\n\n\nYou should provide referenced sources of information\n\n\nSubmissions must be your own work and be relevant to the title and guidance\n\n\nThe winner will receive a £100\, payable by BACs into their bank account\, or if they do not have one\, an appropriate shopping voucher\, which may be delivered directly by email.\nThe winner’s entry will be published on the Harrogate School of Theology and Mission website and may also be published in the local media.\nThe judging panel’s decisions are final\, and binding\, and no correspondence will be entered into.\nThe winner will be notified around mid-October 2022 by email.\nThere is no fee to enter the competition\nNo responsibility for late\, incomplete\, corrupt or lost entries will be accepted.\nHST&M reserve the right to\, at their absolute discretion\, cancel\, suspend\, or vary the competition\, or any part of it (including these Terms and Conditions). HST&M reserve the right to disqualify any individual who has not complied with the letter or spirit of these Terms and Conditions.\nEntrants warrant that their entries are not offensive\, defamatory\, libellous\, obscene\, indecent\, harassing or threatening or otherwise unlawful\, and are unique\, have not been plagiarised and do not infringe the intellectual property rights or any other rights of a third party.\n\n  URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/dr-lucas-mix/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lucas-Mix.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220129T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220129T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20210501T150750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062324Z UID:628-1643450400-1643457600@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Rt Revd Toby Howath DESCRIPTION:Working with Yorkshire’s Muslim Communities\nChristians working with Muslims (and vice versa) face particular joys and challenges\, not least in our global and national context in which Muslims are often spoken of negatively in the press\, on social media and by politicians. Reflecting on his experience in Bradford and more widely\, Bishop Toby will share some biblical and other theological resources that he has picked up along the way\, including ways in which these friendships and other engagements have enriched his own faith. \nCost:  £6.00  including mid-morning refreshments (Covid 19 guidance allowing); students: £5; under 18s free. Fees payable preferably in advance by the online booking system Eventbrite or on the day by contactless card or cheque (to Harrogate School of Theology and Mission). Please note\, that with the current Covid situation\, we are not serving continental breakfast before the lecture\, and have reduced the cost for this lecture to £6. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/rt-revd-toby-howarth/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_2828-scaled-e1756019723293.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20210501T150357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062408Z UID:626-1637402400-1637409600@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Canon Dr Mark Powley DESCRIPTION:In Search of the Presence of God: How We Meet God in Worship\nWhat is the presence of God? How do we come to know it? Is it possible to make sense of our experience in a way that honours both God and science? Mark Powley will share the fruits of ten years of PhD research on the presence of God in worship. There will be an opportunity to consider the ‘signs of God’ in our own lives. The session will also look at how we as human beings enable and shape experiences of God’s presence. Ultimately the presence of God is not the experience of a thing\, but a rich process of partnership in which each of us plays a role. As we regather after lockdown\, this may help us be more aware of how we need each other if we are to seek Gods face. \nCost:  £8.00 per session\, including continental breakfast available from 9.30 am and mid-morning refreshments (Covid 19 guidance allowing);  \nstudents: £5 per lecture;  \nunder 18s free.  \nFees payable preferably in advance by the online booking system Eventbrite or on the day by contactless card or cheque (to Harrogate School of Theology and Mission).\nZoom live-stream of lectures: £5 per person\, bookable via Eventbrite. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/canon-dr-mark-powley/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Mark-Powley-e1756019847230.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210925T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210925T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20210501T150121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062428Z UID:624-1632567600-1632574800@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Archbishop Stephen Cottrell DESCRIPTION:Travelling Well: A Theological Reflection on the Place of Pilgrimage in the Christian Life \n  \nCost  £8.00\, including breakfast and mid-morning refreshments; students: £5 per lecture; under 18s free. Fees payable preferably in advance by the online booking system Eventbrite or on the day by contactless card or cheque (to Harrogate School of Theology and Mission). \nZoom live-stream of lectures: £5 per person\, bookable via Eventbrite. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/archbishop-stephen-cottrell/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Stephen-cottrell.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210424T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210424T123000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20200628T152706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062436Z UID:515-1619262000-1619267400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Revd Ian Parkinson (Leadership Specialist\, CPAS) "For the equipping of the saints: the gift of Christian leadership" (live lecture) DESCRIPTION:Effectiveness in leadership is not measured so much by what any leader achieves but rather by whom they raise up and equip for service. The development and empowering of others certainly seems to have been a top priority for Jesus and those who followed after him. With particular reference to his example\, in this session we will unpack the NT leadership emphasis on growing others in discipleship and ministry\, and explore what this might mean for us today. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/revd-ian-parkinson-leadership-specialist-cpas-is-there-anything-distinctive-about-christian-leadership-live-lecture/ LOCATION:On-line by zoom only CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Ian-Parkinson.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210327T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210327T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20200628T152112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062447Z UID:513-1616839200-1616846400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Prof. Keith Elliott "What makes a book 'holy scripture'?" (live lecture) DESCRIPTION:Professor Elliott will concentrate on the New Testament but will discuss why\, for instance\, the Gospel of Thomas or the so-called gnostic gospels (which Dan Brown relied on to claim that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene) are not ‘holy scripture’.  \nProfessor Elliott has suggested these texts for further reading related to his lecture:\nJ.K. Elliott\, The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation based on M.R. James (Oxford: Clarendon Press\, 1993; paperback 2005) .\n\nJ.K.Elliott\, The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 1996; revised paperback 2006).\n\nDavid R. Cartlidge and J. Keith Elliott\,  Art and the Christian Apocrypha (London and New York\nRoutledge\, 2001).\n\nEdgar J. Goodspeed\, Strange New Gospels (New York: Books for Libraries —  Essay Index Reprint Series) \, 1971 based on the 1931 edition).\n \nElaine Pagels and Karen King\,  Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (New York and. London: Penguin Books; paperback 2007).\n\nRichard Valentasis\,  The Gospel of Thomas (London and New York: Routledge\, 1997). URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/prof-keith-elliott-what-makes-a-book-holy-scripture-live-lecture/ LOCATION:On-line by zoom only CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/keith-Elliott.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201205T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201205T113000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20190723T122530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062626Z UID:434-1607162400-1607167800@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Revd Dr Malcolm Guite "Christ and the Poetic Imagination" DESCRIPTION:This will be live-streamed via Zoom\, starting at 10am. There will be an opportunity to ask questions after the lecture\, and we expect to finish about 11.30am. We are very excited to be welcoming Revd Dr Malcolm Guite who is well known as a poet and was due to come to us in March at the start of the first lock-down. \nWe are making a small charge of £4 per computer / tablet etc. for this lecture and we have some tickets available free for Under 18s. As this is the event we had to cancel at the end of last season\, we are offering this event free to 2019/20 Season Ticket holders\, but please book in with Eventbrite and select this ticket option. \nThe Zoom link will be under “Additional Information” at the end of your confirmation e-mail from Eventbritre. We will send out a reminder to ticket holders a couple of days before the event. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact us on info@hstm.org.uk \nWe hope to see many of you on 5th December \nMalcolm Guite will explore the links and analogies between the working of the poetic imagination\nand the understanding of Christ as Word made Flesh. In particular\, he will look at how far an\nunderstanding of the Logos\, and the doctrine of incarnation may underpin and give grounding to\nworks of literary art and imagination. Malcolm will look at how Shakespeare’s account of the poetic\nimagination in a Midsummer Night’s Dream borrows strongly from the language about incarnation in\nJohn’s Gospel. After developing some of the parallels between the unique mystery of the incarnation\nand the continuous mysteries of human creativity and art\, Malcolm will then look at how a fresh\nencounter with the Doctrine of Christ as Logos became central for Coleridge and led him to a new\ntheology of imagination. Finally he will look at how Christian Faith clarified and deepened the\nimaginative life of some of the Oxford Inklings\, particularly CS Lewis. \nFor more information about Malcolm Guite\, go to “Our Speakers” URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2020-malcolm-guite/ LOCATION:On-line by zoom only CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screenshot-2019-08-14-at-12.38.39.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201114T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201114T113000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20200628T151324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T062642Z UID:509-1605348000-1605353400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Tim Gordon "The changing song of the sea: despair\, faith and hope in an age of environmental destruction" DESCRIPTION:This will be live-streamed via Zoom\, starting at 10am. There will be an opportunity to ask questions after the lecture\, and we expect to finish about 11.30am. We are very excited to be welcoming Dr Tim Gordon who is an outstanding young Christian Marine Biologist. You will find more details below. \nWe are making a small charge of £4 per computer / tablet etc. for this lecture and we have some tickets available free for Under 18s. We will send out the log-in details to ticket holders a couple of days before the event. \nIf you are concerned about paying on-line\, please contact us on info@hstm.org.uk \nWe hope to see many of you on 14th November \nTim Gordon 14th November 2020 10-11.30 \, live-streamed lecture by Zoom \nLecture Title: The changing song of the sea: despair\, faith and hope in an age of environmental destruction \nDr Tim Gordon is a marine biologist whose work has taken him from the Arctic Ocean to the Great Barrier Reef. His research focuses on human threats to the world’s most beautiful and vulnerable ecosystems. Tim was recently named the Society of Experimental Biology’s ‘Young Scientist of the Year’\, and he regularly speaks and writes about how his faith motivates his research. Join us as together we explore how Christianity can link us to the natural world\, guide our responses to environmental destruction\, and provide hope for the future of the planet. \nIf you’d like a brief taste of Tim’s enthusiasm and passion\, check out his entry for the FameLab International Final 2019\, which he won\, beating 24 other science communicators from across the world at the Cheltenham Science Festival in June\, 2019. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3_Ft7l0n8 URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2020-tim-gordon/ LOCATION:On-line by zoom only CATEGORIES:Live Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200125T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200125T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20190723T122225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T072611Z UID:431-1579946400-1579953600@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Rt Revd James Jones KBE "The spiritual and moral imperatives in the life of Christ" (live lecture) DESCRIPTION:The former Bishop of Liverpool\, Rt Revd James Jones KBE\, is perhaps best known as the Chair of the Hillsborough Panel which reported in 2012 on the events surrounding the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough when 96 Liverpool supporters died. He will be speaking on ‘The spiritual and moral imperatives in the life of Christ’. \nIn the Gospel of Luke Jesus says fourteen times ‘It behoves me…’ He talks explicitly about the moral and spiritual imperatives under which he lives and dies. In an age that is at sea about what is right and wrong can these imperatives be applied to our own lives? \n\nBecause of the personal nature of some of his lecture and the likelihood that the main content will form part of a new book\, there is no recording of his lecture available on our website.\n \n\nBishop James Jones has been in contact to say he found his engagement both with the Harrogate School of Theology and the students on the St Hild Easter School very stimulating. He has now published on his website the main part of his lecture from January on ‘The spiritual and moral imperatives in the life of Christ’. He also used the material for the St Hild College Easter School. You will find his lecture at http://bishopjamesjones.com/speeches/harrogate_school_of_theology.pdf and we hope that you will find the text a stimulus during these difficult times. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2020-james-jones/ CATEGORIES:Live Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191207T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191207T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20190723T121626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T072253Z UID:422-1575712800-1575720000@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Dr Elaine Storkey "Gender and Justice" DESCRIPTION:Dr Elaine Storkey is a philosopher\, sociologist\, and theologian\, broadcaster and writer. Her presidency of Tearfund spanned 17 years and influenced her book\, ‘Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women’. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2019-elaine-storkey/ LOCATION:Mowbray Community Church\, Westmoreland Street\, Harrogate\, HG1 5AT\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191123T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191123T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20190723T121806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T072002Z UID:426-1574503200-1574510400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Revd Prof Jeremy Duff "Today is the day – for everyone! Growing Church in Luke and Acts" DESCRIPTION:In Jesus’ lifetime\, people met him face to face\, and he gathered around him a community of Jewish men and women who thought he was the one to redeem Israel. Today we use the language of ‘meeting Jesus’ and of growing the church (community)\, but mean something a little different –  meeting Jesus in a non-physical way\, and a community made up of people from every nation and culture. In this lecture we will see how Luke and Acts together achieve this transformation\, and present a Jesus who meets everyone ‘today’\, and how Jesus’ community breaks boundaries. Come and engage with what the bible says about conversion\, response and the call to abandon our comfort for the sake of those that Jesus is saving – if you dare! URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2019-jeremy-duff/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190323T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190323T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20250419T071819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T071819Z UID:1731-1553335200-1553342400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Rt Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley: "To read\, mark\, learn and inwardly digest: some reflections on a diet of Biblical Interpretation" DESCRIPTION:The Rt Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley is the Bishop of Ripon. She will be speaking on “To read\, mark\, learn and inwardly digest: some reflections on a diet of Biblical Interpretation.” \nThe Bible is the foundation of our faith\, and we probably have our favourite bits\, but what about the parts we don’t understand\, or don’t agree with? If it’s all the Word of God how do we navigate its terrain? In this lecture\, Bishop Helen-Ann will share some of her own reflections on a number of years pondering these questions and help us to reflect positively on how we can live faithfully with Scripture in our present context. \nBishop Helen-Ann is an able communicator and her lecture will be very accessible as well as challenging us to consider how we use scripture. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2019-helen-ann-hartley/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190112T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190112T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20250419T071434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T071516Z UID:1728-1547287200-1547294400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Tom Wright: "Space\, time and history: Jesus and the challenge of God" DESCRIPTION:Tom Wright is well known as an author and is a Research Professor at the University of St Andrews. He will be speaking on Space\, time and history: Jesus and the challenge of God. URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2019-tom-wright/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181117T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181117T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20180508T125546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T071242Z UID:330-1542448800-1542456000@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Revd Prof Dr Charlotte Methuen The Reformation and Brexit: history and the position of the UK in Europe DESCRIPTION:The English Reformation has been cited as evidence both for and against the decision of the UK to leave the EU.  Henry VIII’s idiosyncratically independent stance has been contrasted with the European dimension of Thomas Cranmer’s contacts and the influence of continental Reformers in England and in Scotland.  This paper will examine those arguments\, and explore them in the context of the engagement of the Churches of England and Scotland in the debates surrounding Brexit.  What insights might the history of the church offer in understanding British politics today? URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2018-charlotte-methuen/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/charlotte-methuen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180915T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180915T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T041444 CREATED:20180508T125401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T071155Z UID:325-1537009200-1537016400@hstm.org.uk SUMMARY:Prof Dr Gavin D’Costa Christian-Jewish relations: new and difficult questions DESCRIPTION:This lecture will address the question: if the covenant with Israel is irrevocable (Romans 11.29)\, what does that mean for Christians who accept that and believe that salvation is from Christ alone? URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/2018-gavin-dcosta/ LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Live Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hstm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gavin-dcosta.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR