URC THAMES NORTH SYNOD 
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ST ANDREW’S
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
West Kilburn (125 Salusbury Road, NW6)
LONDON INTER FAITH CENTRE
125 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6RG
From your Thames North Synod Inter Faith Adviser, Maggie Hindley
maggie.hindley@londoninterfaith.org.uk
020 7372 1765
LONDON INTER FAITH CENTRE
125 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6RG
LONDON INTER FAITH CENTRE
125 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6RG
From your Thames North Synod Inter Faith Adviser, Maggie Hindley
maggie.hindley@londoninterfaith.org.uk
020 7372 1765
Dear Companions and Friends,
Here is a selection of events planned at London Inter Faith Centre
Last call for the Certificate Course!
Our fourth two year Certificate Course in Inter Faith Relations starts on September 15th and runs weekly on Wednesday at 7.30.
- Highly Interactive
- Input from leaders from all major faith communities
- Dialogue assignment in Summer 2011
Thee are still a few places, but please register as soon as possible. Talk to me, or while I am on holiday 10th-24th August, to Course Director Revd Fergus Capie, 020 7604 3053.
Worship:
The September Companions Service on 19th September will be led by Brian Ball from Palmers Green URC. There will be a light lunch after.
Christian Zen re-starts on Thursday evenings at 6.30 (6.15 if coming for the first time) on 2nd September and there will be a whole day of Zen meditation on Saturday 16th October. All are welcome; for the Saturday there’s a suggestion of a £5 donation for lunch and other costs, and please register in advance with me.
Study:
Mike King talks about his book, Postsecularism, Sunday 26th September 3-5pm. We read this exciting and profound book for the July Book Group. Here’s the main argument in a nutshell:
It’s a modernist error to believe that science disproves religion; they are different spheres of telling the truth about experience (along with the arts), but religion lost its authority and its appeal after the Enlightenment because it became associated exclusively with devotional (bhakti) rather than non-devotional (jnani) spirituality. Secularism is a kind of scientist extremism. Postsecularism (bring it on!) includes the re-assertion of spirituality and disallows extremism of all kinds.
A four-page summary of the book is available on request.
September’s book group (Monday 13th September, 12.05 – 2pm) considers Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith and Revolution. This book is easily available, cheap, short, funny and trenchant. Donation invited for a sandwich lunch – please let us know you are coming.
In October:
Abrahamic Scriptural Reasoning Monday 11th 10.15 for 10.30 and
Multi Faith Scriptural Reasoning Sunday 31st October 3-5pm.
Further details nearer the time.
Justice issues:
I am part of a London NACCOM team that is developing hosting schemes where individuals host migrants who are literally destitute for short periods of time. We’re looking for individual hosts, people to join the development team, and those who might think of starting a scheme in their own borough, perhaps in connection with a Churches Night Shelter scheme. Contact me to know more.
More about our programme on the Centre website:
And more from me in September!
Maggie Hindley
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The choice for our next Book Group has now been announced on our website (www.londoninterfaith.org.uk) thus:
Read Maggie Hindley's London Inter Faith Centre Newsletter here
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