Prayer of the day
7th February 2012
CLING TO NOTHING THAT STANDS BETWEEN YOUR SOUL AND ITS FREEDOM
Speaker Profile
Reverend Simon Small was our speaker in May 2010
Simon Small worked for ten years as an Anglican priest. He now lives in Glastonbury and works independently in the field of spirituality - writing, leading retreats and seminars, and acting as spiritual companion to individuals. Many of the people he works with are from beyond church boundaries.
Before ordination he spent many years exploring modern spirituality in its many manifestations, including the great eastern traditions. He is author of From the Bottom of the Pond: the forgotten art of experiencing God in the depths of the present moment, which has been an Amazon UK ‘spirituality' bestseller and extracts were serialised in the Church Times. The book also formed the basis for an edition of Something Understood on BBC Radio 4. it has been endorsed by leading figures and publications from both the Church and the New Age/Alternative spiritualities. www.simonsmall.info
Fr. NICHOLAS KING SJ was our September 2010 Speaker
Nicholas King is a lecturer at Oxford University. He is a well-respected New Testament scholar and has been working on The New Testament a ground-breaking translation from the original Greek for the past few years and has also completed his New Testament Study Guides.
He is currently working on a translation of the Old Testament, and last year wrote a Lent resource entitled “Thirsting for God”
Reverend Dr DEE DYAS was our speaker in November 2010
Dee is Director of the Christianity and Culture Project, a partnership between St John's College, Nottingham and the University of York which equips students and others to explore the influence of Christianity on literature, history, art and society through CD-ROMs, books and conferences.
Dee is the author of Images of Faith in English Literature 700-1500 (Longman, 1997), Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2001) and joint author of The Bible in Western Culture (Routledge, 2005). She is editor of Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research (D.S. Brewer, 2004 onwards) and co-editor of Approaching Middle English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts (D.S. Brewer, 2004). She has contributed an essay ‘Medieval Perspectives on Pilgrimage' in Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage (Ashgate, 2004) and has produced two CD-ROMs.