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Sion College Lecture series on Ecclesiology: Rowan Williams - Recovering a Vision of the Church

Present debates and divisions within the Church of England point to a crisis in ecclesiology. What does it mean to be “in communion” in a church with deepening fault lines which make not just communion, but also communication and understanding, increasingly difficult? Can we reframe the parameters of the conversation to recover a vision of what the church is, and therefore of how we can live together?

The lecture will be followed by drinks and canapés.

The Sion College Lecture Series on Ecclesiology will be published as a contribution to the wider debate. Booklets will be available by mail order from St Matthew’s Westminster.

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A Sion College Zoom Seminar with Charles deGravelle: Diaconal Ministry on Death Row

What does it mean to minister alongside someone who has been sentenced to death by the government? How might that ministry and experience ripple out and transform other communities and contexts in pastoral care, discipleship, and church life? Sion College is honored to host a Zoom Seminar with the Rev Charles deGravelles, a Deacon in The Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Louisiana. He has served numerous roles, in parishes, school, diocesan, and in prison. He will speak in some depth about his experience of journeying alongside Feltus Taylor, a man who spent 9 years on Death Row before being executed in 2000. There will be time for questions and we hope to reflect on Christian life in incredibly difficult circumstances and how this has shaped and impacted Charlie’s ministry.

The Revd Charles deGravelles is a writer, musician, and photographer, and was ordained a deacon in 1995 and currently serves as Archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. A founder of the Episcopal ministry at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, now the Chapel of the Transfiguration, Charlie has worked for over 30 years with incarcerated men and women, including three years as a spiritual advisor for a Death Row inmate. He has also ministered to the homeless and those recovering from addictions. He served as chaplain and teacher at Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, and is now the director of the Quest for Peace social justice program at that school. Charlie leads worship at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Rosedale, Louisiana.

Sion College will make a donation from proceeds for this event to a charity of Charles’s choosing. Given the Zoom format of this event it is expected that all attendees will be given a place – with no reserves list in operation unless numbers exceed our Zoom licence.

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“And is it true, and is it true?” Cathedrals and Growth: A Talk & Reception with Joe Hawes

Cathedrals have been much in the news recently. Hard on the heels of celebrations around Christmas attendance figures have come criticisms of the riskier aspects of events held in cathedral naves. Fundraising imperatives for cash strapped flagships or creative opportunities for pre-evangelism? Is the hype around the success of cathedrals justified, or like any other public institution, are they just struggling to make ends meet and find relevance in an increasingly secular market-driven economy?

The Very Revd Joe Hawes is Dean of St Edmundsbury, the first cathedral in the UK to hold a beer and cider Festival and veteran of silent discos, will explore the direction of travel for England’s cathedrals. He is a graduate of Durham University and studied theology at St Stephen’s House, Oxford.

St John’s has an excellent collection of heavily embroidered banners, vestments and altar sets, all characteristic in design and execution of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To make sure the disapproving Anglican Church did not confiscate their vestments, the early vicars of St John’s insisted they were personal possessions! Some of the highlights of these will be available to view following the talk.

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ANNUAL FEAST OF SION COLLEGE

Stationers’ Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London, EC4M 7DD

Thursday 2nd May, 2024

The President and Court of Governors request the pleasure of your company at the Annual Feast of the College on Thursday 2nd May, 2024 at Stationers’ Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD at 7pm for 7:30pm. Dress: Black Tie (dinner jacket with clerical collar or black bow tie, evening length dress, traditional national dress, or similar style of formality) or Cassock.

We are delighted this year to welcome as our principal speaker Justin Urquhart-Stewart, famous for his entertaining and informative commentary on business issues on a wide range of television news programmes.

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A wine reception and lecture with Dr Naomi Paxton

Politics impacts all aspects of our lives, no matter how involved we make ourselves in the democratic process. In the 1900s as women sought the right to vote on the same terms as men the suffragist movement was involved not just in the obvious political arenas but was also deeply embedded in other aspects of the national life. One such area was in performing arts, seeking to change hearts and minds and further the cause through drama and especially plays.

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A Visit to The Palestine Exploration Fund Followed by Dinner at The Sail Loft

The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) was founded under the royal patronage of Queen Victoria in 1865 by a group of distinguished academics and clergymen, most notably the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Arthur Stanley, and Sir George Grove. The original mission statement of the PEF was to promote research into the archaeology and history, manners and customs and culture, topography, geology and natural sciences of biblical Palestine and the Levant. This all provides a rich background from which the three Abrahamic faiths emerged.

The Chief Executive & Curator, Felicity Cobbing, will introduce us to the PEF, and make available some of the most interesting highlights of its vast collection. She has excavated in Jordan with the British Museum, and worked throughout the Middle East, particularly Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. Widely published on the archaeology and the history of archaeology in the Levant, she is co-author with Dr Raouf Sa’d Abujaber of Beyond the River – Ottoman Transjordan in Original Photographs, and with David M. Jacobson on Distant Views of the Holy Land.

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