Pat Ashworth

1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth

ANGLICANS worldwide are being called on to fulfil the vision of the Lambeth Call on Mission and Evangelism, with each diocese urged to make a new commitment to planting and revitalising churches. The Call is one of a set of recommendations drawn up at the 2023 Lambeth Conference, and continued in a series of webinars presented to a global audience.

1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth

THE word “outreach” occurred in almost every context at the Church of Ireland General Synod, meeting in Naas, Co. Kildare, last Friday and Saturday. It featured most prominently in a private member’s motion on the Friday, which sought to set up a working group to explore the possibility of allowing clergy to solemnise marriages in secular venues.

1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth

MEMBERS the Church of Ireland’s General Synod, meeting in Naas, Co. Kildare, last Friday and Saturday, had the rare opportunity of viewing original footage of a film, thought to have been lost, which was screened in 1970 to mark the centenary of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. The 29-minute film, produced by Radharc Films for the national broadcasting network RTÈ, was recently discovered by staff in the Representative Church Body Library, in the shape of an unmarked 16mm cine film.

1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth

A CUMBRIAN cellist and poet is set to undertake a 2000-mile bicycle pilgrimage that will take him to all 42 English cathedrals in the space of seven weeks. Kenneth Wilson, who is 66, will be undertaking “Pilgrim Cello”, and, in 40 of the cathedrals, he will perform a specially written “Seven Last Words Meditation”, which interleaves poetry of the Seven Last Words with the Sarabandes from Bach’s six cello suites.

1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth

YOUNG people, especially Generation Z, are looking for authenticity of experience rather than “the yada-yada which passes for the discussion of faith and spirituality”, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd John McDowell, told the Church of Ireland’s General Synod, meeting in Naas, Co. Kildare, on Friday and Saturday. “For them, Christian leadership is an active expression of faith,” he said. “They have very little time for ecclesiastical jargon.