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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
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SUMMARY:Seminar - October 2025 : Another Advocate: The Emergence of the Holy Spirit in the Writings of the New Testament
DESCRIPTION:Another Advocate: The Emergence of the Holy Spirit in the Writings of the New Testament \n\n\n\nVenue:\nWoodlands Methodist Harrogate\nDate:\n25th October 2025\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to invite Rev Dr Claire Honess to deliver our seminar in October. \nClaire will help us to examine what the New Testament tells us about the Holy Spirit and the Spirit’s work using very short close readings from Paul’s letters\, Luke\, and John.  Through this she will go on to invite participants to think about what these sources tell us about the Spirit and\, of course\, how that might inform how we see the Spirit as active in our lives and in our churches today.
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/seminar-october-2025/
LOCATION:Woodlands Methodist Church\, 71 Wetherby Rd\, Harrogate\, HG2 7SG
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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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
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SUMMARY:Seminar - December 2025: The Words we use for Worship
DESCRIPTION:The Words we use for Worship\n\n\n\nVenue:\nWoodlands Methodist Harrogate\nDate:\n6th December 2025\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\n\n\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\n\n\nSeminar led by Andrew Brown\, Methodist local preacher and hymnwriter. \nDo the words that we use influence the way in which we approach God and think about ourselves?  Is our vocabulary limited by tradition and would the use of different words expand our understanding and experience?  Are there contexts where some words are inappropriate or harmful? \n  \nAndrew has been a local preacher for over 50 years\, has written over sixty hymn poems\, and also writes his own prayers for use in worship.
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/seminar-december-2025/
LOCATION:Woodlands Methodist Church\, 71 Wetherby Rd\, Harrogate\, HG2 7SG
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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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
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SUMMARY:Seminar - February 2026: Unlocking the wisdom of John’s Gospel
DESCRIPTION:Unlocking the wisdom of John’s Gospel\nAn introduction to David Ford’s Theological Commentary on John’s Gospel\n\n\n\nVenue:\nWoodlands Methodist Harrogate\nDate:\n28th February 2025\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\nThis event has now passed\n\n\n\nDavid Ford’s Commentary on John’s Gospel is widely regarded as a new profound and insightful commentary.  He clarifies the purpose of the Gospel and how it relates to the Synoptic Gospels and the Septuagint.  Ford shows how John emphasises the reality of the Spirit abiding in us\, the lived reality of eternal life\, with profound and practical inspiration and guidance to disciples of Jesus. Ford reveals John’s deep challenges and the Spirit’s invitation to us to participate in its continuing\, surprising and unfolding work in the world.   \nOf clear relevance to our troubled times\, Ford sees John as giving his readers a global horizon that “can unite them with the desire of Jesus for an ultimate unity of all people and all creation in love and peace.” \nIn this seminar\, Revd Ian Johnston\, who has been a leader of Bible Studies based on Ford’s Commentary\, will provide an introduction to this remarkable work.   \nParticipants will be sent\, in advance\, a pdf copy of the chapter on John 3\, which Ian will use to introduce the main theses of the Commentary and to stimulate group discussion.  \nIn continuing our desire to share this work\, HSTM is considering running in the Autumn another of our Bible Studies on John using Ford’s Commentary. Click here for further details.
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/seminar-february-2026/
LOCATION:Woodlands Methodist Church\, 71 Wetherby Rd\, Harrogate\, HG2 7SG
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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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
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SUMMARY:Seminar - April 2026: Wilding Disciple-making and Mission
DESCRIPTION:Wilding Disciple-making and Mission\n\n\n\nVenue:\nWoodlands Methodist Harrogate\nDate:\n18th April 2026\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\n\n\nTickets:\n\n\nGeneral admission: £8\nUnder 18s: free\n\n\nBuy tickets on EventBrite\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to invite the Rev’d Ben Askew to deliver April’s Seminar. \nOver the last few years there has been a growing interest in the idea of re-wilding.  This broad term describes a commitment to letting natural processes lead land management and conservation.  It has led many households to discover wildflowers in the lawn during ‘no mow may’\, to the reintroduction of keystone species into eco-systems\, and to a re-discovery of the abundance of creation\, when allowed space and freedom. I’m keen to learn from this ecological movement\, partly because so much of my faith has been grown by enjoying wilder spaces\, but also because I think we might find that God’s wild Spirit works in surprising and re-energising ways among us as we ease back from control and learn unforced rhythms of grace. \n  \nSpeaker biography to follow. \nBuy tickets on EventBrite
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/seminar-april-2026/
LOCATION:Woodlands Methodist Church\, 71 Wetherby Rd\, Harrogate\, HG2 7SG
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Lecture - John Bell
DESCRIPTION:Venue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 19th September 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.\nTickets available soon\n\n\n\nDetails to follow.
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/lecture-john-bell-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Lectures
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SUMMARY:Lecture - Paul Kunet
DESCRIPTION:Jesus Died to save the planet\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 21st November 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.\nTickets available soon\n\n\n\nDetails to follow \n21st November 2026
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/lecture-paul-kunet-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Lectures
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SUMMARY:Lecture - Alex Harris
DESCRIPTION:Unhindered – from Acts to today\n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 23st January 2027\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n£10 (including breakfast and refreshments)\nStudents: £7; Under 18s free.\nTickets available soon\n\n\n\nDetails to follow
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/lecture-alex-harris-2027/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Lectures
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SUMMARY:Lecture - Chine McDonald
DESCRIPTION:Theological and Religious Thinking \n\n\n\nVenue:\nSt Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate (& Zoom option)\nDate:\nSaturday 13th March 2027\, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am\nTickets:\n£10 (including breakfast and refreshments)\nStudents: £7; Under 18s free.\nTickets available soon\n\n\n\nDetails to follow
URL:https://hstm.org.uk/event/lecture-chine-mcdonald-2027/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church\, Leeds Road\, Harrogate\, HG2 8AY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Lectures
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