2011
|
Program
for the year |
Feb 6
|
Topic: Planing session
|
March 6
|
Topic: Centering ourselves - Bronwyn White
Discussion and setting some our programme for the year
|
March 20
|
Topic:
Precis and discussion about the book: The Spiritevel
Betty Knight and Archie
Kerr
|
April 3
|
Topic: Understanding the moral mind
(Jonathan Haidt) (video & discussion)
Peter Cowley & Ralph Pannett
|
April 17
|
Topic: Palm Sunday liturgy
Jim and Maxine Cunningham
|
May 1
|
Topic: Quilting (Part 1) (I don't
think this is all about needles and thread!)
Shirley Dixon
|
May 15
|
Topic: Quilting (Part 2)
Shirley Dixon
|
June 5
|
Topic: The
Death and Resurrection of Jesus - What significance do they have (if
any) for progressive Christians?
Lloyd Geering
|
June 19
|
Topic: Life as Gesamtkunstwerk (change to programme advertised earlier)
Ralph Pannett
|
July3
|
Topic: Playing your ˜best song" on an island near mars
Bronwyn White
|
July 17
|
Topic: Planning the rest of year programme
Jeanette Brunton
|
August 5 -7
|
Ephesus Weekend Away at Cross Creek
|
|
|
2010
|
Program
for the year |
March 7
|
Topic: Shirley & Lloyd geering in Iran
Facilitator: Shirley Dixon
|
March 21
|
Topic: Pains of glass and bitter paradise
(an Easter reflection)
Facilitator: To Be Advised
|
April 4
|
No Meeting (Easter) |
April 18
|
Topic: Exposee of plans for the rest of the
year! based on three interweaving themes.
Facilitator: |
May 2
|
Topic: Adam, Eve and Oedipus as examples of
myths that
a) lost their power through being literalised
b) were revived and made relevant through psychology.
Facilitator: Rob Wilkinson
|
May 9
|
Topic: Jesus as Logos, Christ as Mythos
Facilitator: Ian harris (plus others)
|
May 30
|
Topic: Stardust and time - Celebrating
Mythos and Logos
Facilitator: Jill Harris and others |
June 20
|
Topic:
Introduce Segment 2 on Compassion, including Karen Armstrong’s address
to the TED conference in 2008 and the Charter for Compassion.
Facilitator: Other details to be arranged
|
July 4
|
Topic: Compassion in action: Exploring the
theme.
Facilitator: Allen Wright & Colleen Davey
|
| July 18 |
Topic: Compassion in action - Quality of
life when time is limited.
Facilitator: Maxine Cunningham
|
August 1
|
Topic: Compassion: the impossible dream?
Facilitator: Keith Carley
|
August 15
|
Topic: Meditation/Liturgy rounding out the
compassion theme
Facilitator: |
August 27-29
|
Cross Creek weekend away
|
September 5
|
Topic: In Pursuit of Happiness: How do we
live religiously in a consumer-driven society?
Facilitator: Ian Harris & Maxine Cunningham
|
September 19
|
Topic: Community responses to the
sustainability challenge, including transition towns
Facilitator: Frank Cook
|
October 3
|
Topic: Ian Pool will lead the session
following his paper to the Sea of Faith conference on "Population,
Development and Wuality of Life: Compassion and Sustainability"
Facilitator: Ia Pool
|
October 17
|
Topic: A liturgy on nurturing the
environment and the harmful impact of consumerism on it
Facilitator: Jill
|
November 7
|
Topic: What is real prosperity
Facilitator: Ian Harris & Rob Wilkinson
|
November 21
|
Topic: Practices and disciplines
that would help us walk the talk
Facilitator: Robin and Rob
|
December 5
|
Topic: Christmas Liturgy,
incorporating the Many Tables reflection and communion.
Facilitator: Maxine
|
| 2009 |
Program
for the year |
March 1
|
Wotif? Tomorrow
Facilitator: Jill Harris, Presenter: Jill Harris
|
March 15
|
Is the Church really necessary?
Facilitator: Ian Harris, Presenter: Richard Randerson
|
April 5
|
Hoiw do we make sense of Easter?
Facilitator: Robin Lane, Presenter: Jeanette, Hilary, Archie
|
April 19
|
Post Easter liturgy
Facilitator: Jill Harris, presenter: Volunteers?
|
May 3
|
Jim Symons on US religion
Facilitator: Ian Harris
|
May 17
|
The biological basis of religion
Facilitator: Archie Kerr, Presenter: Archie kerr
|
June 7
|
Darwin's
influence on society
Facilitator: Noel Cheer,
Presenter: Noel Cheer
|
June 21
|
Ecclesiasties, nature of God
Facilitator: Archie Kerr, Presenter: Lloyd Geering
|
July 5
|
Ecclesiasties - a conversation
Facilitator: Archie Kerr, Presenter: Lloyd Geering and Ken Irwin
|
July 19
|
Demonising people we don't like
Facilitator: Ian Harris, Presenter: David Hanna
|
August 2
|
Compassion, human rights and reconciliation
Facilitator: Robin Lane, Presentor: Robin lane
|
August 16
|
Bring a book to talk about
Facilitator: Rob Wilkinson: presenter: Adrienne
|
August 21-23
|
How are ya going, mate?
Facilitator: Jill Harris, presentor: Cross Creek Planning Group
|
September 6
|
So much to be thankful for - Spirit and
faith in contemporary music
Facilitator: Elizabeth, presenter: Bronwyn
|
September 20
|
New Growth - Spring
celebration
Facilitator: Elizabeth, presenter: Margaret Rushbrook
|
October 4
|
Compassion continued
Facilitator: Rob Wilkinson, presenter: Alan Wright & Coleen Davy |
October 18
|
A fresh look at Paul
Facilitator: Robin Lane, presenter: Jim Cunningham
|
November 1
|
Transforming moments
Facilitator: Rob Wilkinson, presenter: Robin Lane |
November 15
|
The
Postcolonial Turn: Reading the Bible in Aotearoa New Zealand in
Conversation with Achsah.
(Judges 1, 11-16) and (Joshua 15, 15-19)"
Facilitator: Adrienne,
presenter: Dr Judith McKinlay |
December 6
|
A Christmas “event”
Facilitator: Elizabeth, presenter: Margaret Pannett |
| 2008 |
Program
for the year |
|
|
| March 2 |
On "My name is Judas"
by C K Steed
Facilitator: David Simmers
|
| March 16 |
Is Christ redundant?
Facilitator: Ian Harris
|
| April 6 |
Post Easter liturgy
For some people, the concept of the Christ has
become outmoded or suspect. With a change in perspective, that need not
be so. Following on from the last session, Ian Harris will suggest a
way of understanding the Christ
that he considers not only intellectually and spiritually valid, but
also positive for the world of secular modernity |
| April 20 |
Jung and Ephesus
Facilitator |
| May 4 |
Jung and Ephesus
Facilitator: lloyd Geering |
| May 18 |
Falling for Science:
Spirituality and Science
Facilitator: Bernard Beckett |
| June 1 |
No Meeting |
| June 15 |
Spirituality of
Aotearoa - Tuwhare, Hotare, Randerson
Facilitator: Ralph Pannett |
| June 27-29 |
"Otaki" Weekend,
Theme: Our reaction to Lloyd Geerings "Big Ideas" from the documentary
"The Last Western Heretic" |
| July 6 |
Bring & Share - poems, art, literature,
etc |
| July 20 |
Religious themes in
Country Music
Facilitator: Chris Nichol |
| August 3 |
Reclaiming liturgy
Facilitator: Maxine & Jill |
| August 17 |
Movement in Liturgy -
Crow's Feet dance group
Facilitator: Jan Bolwell |
| Sept 7 |
L. colo: I till (to
till * to till the earth * to cultivate the Earth * to vandalise the
Earth)
‘The
sedge
has
withered
from
the
lake,
and
no
birds
sing’ (Keats)
Facilitator: Jill |
| Sept 21 |
GAIA Hypothesis
how it relates to our spirituality, conservation and our way of life
Facilitator: Dave Lowe |
| Sept 29 |
SOF conference in
Blenheim |
| October 5 |
The view looking back
- Reflections on 40 years in the Ministry
Facilitator: Jim Cunningham |
| October 19 |
Engaging with the next
generation on "what matters"
Facilitator: Ken Irwin |
| November 2 |
Public Interest vs
Common Good - with scenarios
Facilitator:Rob Wilkinson |
| November 16 |
What do we tell our
grandchildren - Great stories to be told
Facilitator: John McIntyre, kilbirnie Books |
| December 7 |
Christmas Liturgy "A
Christmas Carol"
An exploration of a great Christmas Myth based on Charles
Dickens' story.
Facilitator: Adrienne Nicholls, Hillary Hunter &
Betty Knight. |
| 2007 |
Program
for the year |
| March 4 |
Liturgy
- Leaves of our lives
Facilitator: Jill Harris |
| March 18 |
Have
you sold out to the devil?
Facilitators: Ian & Jeanette |
| April 1 |
Easter
Liturgy - Betrayal, defwat - yet the vast red dawn
Facilitators: Robin & Jill |
| April 15 |
Human
accomplishment.
If
Christianity
has
contributed
largely
to
the
advances
of
Western
civilisation
in past
800 years, what will happen as that base crumbles? (based on book by
Charles Murray)
Facilitator: Ian
|
| May 6 |
Human
accomplishment: The Ephesus Questions
In
our
session
on
April
15,
Charles
Murray
offered
some
intriguing
observations
in his grand overview of 2750m nyears of accomplisment in
nthe arts and sciences. There are more intriguing
observations to
come.
Iam harris will outline them this Sunday and then we shall have the
chance to discuss their implications for the present day, and
especially their relevance to Ephesus. |
| May 15 |
Human
accomplishment.
If Christianity has contributed largely to the advances of Western
civilisation in past 800 years, what will happen as that base crumbles?
Or another angle...
The True, The
Good, The Beautiful
A look
back on 2750
years of the pursuit of excellence in the
arts and sciences, as described by Charles Murray in his book Human
Accomplishment - and a look forward at the
implications of his findings for the future.
Facilitator:
Ian Harris |
| May 20 |
Reframing
Her: Biblical Women in
Postcolonial Focus (2004) by Judith McKinlay
Betty Knight
and Irena Lowe
presenting ideas from the book |
| June 17 |
Buddhism.
How to respond to the world we are living in? How to deal with
secularisation?
Facilitators:
Camilla Browne, Soka
Gakkai |
| July 1 |
Creating a civil
society
Facilitator: Robin
|
| July 15 |
What is the most
potent/revolutionary idea of/for the 21st
century?
Facilitator: Noel |
| July 27-29 |
Otaki
weekend. Ethics.Civil, Civic,
Civilising: the art of living together
Facilitators: Lloyd, Nicky Hager |
| August 5 |
City
of God: a drama based on the novel City of God by EL Doctorow
introduces the story, characters and ideas of a book which talks about
the modern reality of God and “a quest for an authentic
spirituality for the 21st century” (reviewer). It is set in
New York and has been described as “the first Sea of
Faith-type novel”.
Facilitators: Jill
and others |
| August 19 |
Liturgy. The
universe,
ourselves.
Facilitator: Jill |
| Sept 2 |
What do we tell
the
grandchildren?
Ethical wills. What’s left when you’ve left?
Facilitators: Ken and Archie (info
from Rob) |
| Sept 16 |
What would an Ephesus funeral be like?
Facilitator: Ian |
| October 7 |
Landfall after
sailing across the
Sea of Faith
The
Sea of Faith conference can challenge, inspire new thinking and
infuriate. It's an opportunity for
like-minded and unlike-minded people to debate, to make friends and to
enjoy |
| November 4 |
Liturgy:
The Continuing Story
Facilitator: Jill |
| November 18 |
Exploring Meditation
- Linking modern knowledge and ancient wisdom
- Making meditation an element in daily practice
- Practising meditation
Facilitator:
Robin lane |
| December 2 |
Christmas
Liturgy |
| 2006 |
Program
for the year |
| Feb 19 |
Regathering
and
socialising
18:00 at Jill & Ian's home at 9a Tui
Road, Days
Bay, Eastbourne. |
| March 05 |
"Lets
bake a
cake"
Review of the 2005 session and forward
discussion.
Facilitator & Coordinator: Norm Ely |
| March 19 |
Are
you a Stoic and Don’t Know It?
A modern look at Stoicism
Presenter: David Simmers. |
| April 02 |
Easter
Liturgy – Nature or Supernature
Easter 14th to 17th April, Anzac Day Tuesday 25th April. |
| April 23 (*) |
Bibliodrama
1
Presenter: Robin
* note different date due to Easter |
| May 07 |
Bibliodrama
2
Presenter: Robin |
| May 21 |
Bibliodrama
– Liturgy – ? |
| June 11 (*) |
New
Words out of Old 1
Presenter: Rob
* Note different date due to Queens Birthday |
| June 25 (*) |
New
Words out of Old 2
Presenter: Rob
* Note different date. |
| July 09 (*) |
New
Words out of Old Liturgy – A Midwinter Liturgy - ?
* Note different date |
| July 21-23 |
Otaki
Weekend --- Two
forms of resistance to Hitler (A Modern Interpretation), preceded by
the Film “Downfall” on the Friday
Presenters: Robin and Others |
| Aug 06 |
Hiroshima
Day
Presenter: Adrienne |
| Aug 20 |
Winter
Liturgy
Presenter: Jill |
| Sept 03 |
What
we owe to anchient Iraq
Presenter: Lloyd Geering |
| Sept 17 |
The
search for meaning
Presenter: Neville Glasgow |
| Oct 01 |
SoF
Conference
at
Marton.
At
least
10
of
our
members
will
be attending
the SoF Conference
there will be no meeting on this date.
|
| Oct 15 |
Myth
Presenter: Kill Cunningham |
Nov 12
Note changed
date |
Pakehatanga
Presenter:
Ken Irwin
Exploring
putting
some
Maori
frameworks
into
our
rituals
&
liturgies |
Nov 26
Note changed
date |
Travelling
through
Time
and
Space
with
Dr
Who
Presenter:Adrienne.
What
is the Time? Which Space? An opportunity for Ephesus members to share
personal times and spaces with each other. |
| Dec 03 |
Christmas Liturgy
Presenter: Elizabeth Earnslaw and others |
| 2005 |
Program
for the year |
| March
06 |
Where
do I Stand?
Over the years members of Ephesus have journeyed along many paths of
faith, mostly Christian. Some withing Faith/Church
communities,
some not. Where do some of those now stand?
Presenters: Adrienne Nicholls, Elizabeth Earnslaw, David Patchett,
Hilary Hunter, Noel Cheer, Gavin Watson.
Facilitator and Coordinator: Norm Ely |
| March
20 |
Where
do we Stand?
Following on from the March 05 session, the question now arises do
other members share the same, similar or quite different views to the
presenters at the previous meeting.
Facilitator and Coordinator: Norm Ely |
| April 03 |
Where
do others stand?
Program 1
Presenter: Pushpa
Wood, a Hindu, will speak to us on 'Her personal journey into her faith"
Coordinator:
Elizabeth Earnslaw |
| April 17 |
Where
do others stand?
Program 2
Presenter: Joellen Duckor, Para Rabbi
Coordinator: Elizabeth Earnslaw |
| May 01 |
Where
do others stand?
Program 3
Presenter: Rehaha Ali, a Muslim
Coordinator: Elizabeth Earnslaw |
| May 15 |
Liturgy
for Pentecost
Coordinator: Maxine Cunningham |
| May 29 |
Rituals
around Death,
Celebration of Life. Program 1
Over the next three sessions we will look at various aspects of the
above topic.
Coordinator: Shirley Dixon |
| June 19 |
Rituals
around Death,
Celebration of Life. Program 2
Over the next three sessions we will look at various aspects of the
above topic.
Coordinator: Shirley Dixon |
| July 03 |
Rituals
around Death,
Celebration of Life. Program 3
Over the next three sessions we will look at various aspects of the
above topic.
Coordinator: Shirley Dixon |
| July 17 |
An
ethical question?
Coordinator: Norm Ely |
| Aug 07 |
Otaki
retreat weekend |
| Aug 21 |
Amnesty
International
-
Current work in progress.
Presenter:Rev John Murray
Coordinator: Noel Cheer |
| Sep 04 |
Re-imaging
traditional
religious images: The Madonna
Our task is to look/re-look at some wonderful old images of the Madonna
(limited here to paintings) mainly from the Renaissance Period.
We will consider the traditional Christian content, investigate the
surplus of meaning beyond their original context and explore
re-readings from a radical or secular perspective. |
| Sept 18 |
Film
(Together) and
discussion |
| Oct 02 |
WHERE
MOUNTAINS RISE
TO
OPEN SKIES
A session to involve us in singing, enjoying ourselves and
incidentally doing a race through the aspects of: context,
language, imagery, human rights, peace, creation, the
NZ component and carols.
Also along the way, editors, alterations and misprints, composers I
have known and the amazing NZ Hymnbook Trust
Presenter: Shirley Murray
Coordinator: Norm Ely |
| Oct 16 |
The
UN at 6-: Still
humanity's best hope
Presenters: Dame
Lauri Salas and Joe Connell
|
| Nov 06 |
We
live in a new
religious
era
Presenter & Coordinator: Lloyd Geering |
|
| Nov 20 |
Ephesus
- We're going
on
for 16 - let's bake a cake!
* What ingredients do you want
in the cake mix?
* What kind of a cake would you like to
eat?
Take a moment during the next few days to think about how you'd finish
the sentences:
"I keep on coming to Ephesus because ... "
"Ephesus is valuable to me when ...
Presenters: Jill and Ian Harris |
| Dec 04 |
Matthew
Tells a Story
- A
recycled liturgy
Presenters: Jill & Ian Harris |
| 2004 |
Program
for the year |
| March
7 |
Planning
meeting |
| March 21 |
Art
& Myth
Visit "Signs & Wonders exhibition at Te Papa" before the
meeting
and discuss.
Coordinator: Ralph Pannett |
| April 04 |
Easter
Liturgy
"From Darkness to Light: Our Experiences of Resurrection".
Coordinator: Bronwyn White |
| April 18 |
Let's
explore a myth
A mythic story will be told and then we will deconstruct it.
Coordinator Jill Harris |
| May
02 |
Shifting
Sands –
Foreshore, Seabed and Treaty issues
A
Special
meeting arranged by the Joint Churches in Johnsonville at
Johnsonville Uniting Church (our normal venue) |
| May
16 |
So
What? Where now? What do
we do?
Coordinator Elizabeth Earnshaw. |
| May
30 |
Myths
that shape NZ today
What
are
the most powerful myths that shape our lives?
Coordinators Norm
Ely and Ian Harris |
| June
20 |
Myths
for our future in NZ
Myths that will
Last; that we Need; that will (or should) Die.
Coordinator Ralph Pannett
|
| July
04 |
'The
historical
progression of myth'.
A
sketch of the shape
of myth from that of ancient Babylon
to
that
of
Marx.
Talk by Lloyd Geering
Coordinator Robin Lane
Also see book
review of The
Eden
Myth
|
| July 18 |
Liturgical
outcome
Coordinators Jill Harris, Maxine Cunningham, Peter Cowley |
July 30
-
Aug 01 |
Power of Myth Videos; discussion; walks; camaraderie.
Friday evening to Sunday afternoon at Otaki. Accommodation on site or
as you wish.
You can attend the whole weekend or any part thereof. Details to
follow. |
| Aug
08 |
Perspectives
on aging.
A series of new explorations begins.
Coordinators Maxine Cunningham; David and Pauline Patchett; Jill Harris
|
| Aug 22 |
To Be
advised |
| Sept 5 |
To be
advised |
| Sept 19 |
To be
advised |
| Oct 3 |
To be
advised |
| Oct 17 |
To be
advised |
| Nov 7 |
To be
advised |
| Nov 21 |
To be
advised |
| Dec 5 |
Christmas
Liturgy and Meal
Details to follow. |
|
2003
|
Program
for the year |
| March 2 |
Decisions to
continue meeting at
Johnsonville..
Themes confirmed and planning groups arranged up until
mid-August. Further planning group will be needed for
‘Exciting insights from the world of Science” to
begin
mid-year.
“Getting to know each other” exercises
to discuss
who we are, where we come from and what some of the important things
are in our lives.
Facilitator – Margaret Rushbrook.
|
| March
|
Film
evening at
Lighthouse Theatre
in Petone, followed by takeaways and discussion at Ian and Jill Harris,
Days Bay. See my
forwarded
email from Jill
Harris – dates Friday 28 or Sunday 30 March – reply
to Jill |
| March
16 |
Spirituality as
manifest in the
“New Zealand Anthology of Spiritual Verse”
Jill Harris
|
| April
6 |
Session
1,
“In
Search
of
the
Sacred” Robin
Lane |
| Easter |
No
Meeting |
| May 4 |
Sacred
Space,
Sacred
Time
(Ralph
Pannett) |
| May 18 |
Session
3, Liturgy
– theme of “In
search of the sacred” |
| June
- Queens
Birthday |
No
Meeting |
| June
15 |
Winter festival
dinner as part of a
liturgy |
| June
27-29 |
Otaki
Weekend (Group
3 – to
arrange) |
| July 6 |
Bi-culturalism
–
The
Way
Forward
on
Bi-culturalism
-
Group
4: |
| July
20 |
Bi
Culturalism - Group
4 |
|
August
3
|
Liturgy
–
on
theme
of
Bi-culturalism
- Jill
Harris
|
|
August
17
|
“The
Column” – Ian Harris
|
|
Sept 7
Sept.
21
|
“Constructing
a Believable God”. Prof.
Gordon Kaufman.
David
Simmers (From the
books
of Professor
Gordon Kaufman.) “Constructing
a
Believable
God”.* ctd.
|
|
Sept.
26-28
|
SOF
Conference. Inglewood
|
|
Oct. 5
Oct 19
|
Science
Series
(1) “Soil
and Soul”, Jeanette
Brunton
(2) Exciting
Insights from the World of Science. Ralph
is coordinating ideas for this at the
moment with Ian Hunter, Maire, and Jeanette and Elizabeth.
|
|
November
2
|
Prof.
Lloyd Geering – Fundamentalism.
Jim
Cunningham, Chairperson
|
|
November
8
or 9th
|
Spring
‘Happening” –
something outside – an outing – social occasion
–
David and Pauline Patchett – more later.
|
|
November
16
|
Soapbox
– what
are your
passions? Noel
Cheer to
coordinate helpers
– need volunteers soon.
|
|
Dec
7
|
Christmas
meeting
-
Liturgy,
end
of
year.
(Group
7
to
organize
– will
ask
for volunteers at end of October.)
|
