3 Jan 2025

Living Faith: Reshaping the Church

This module examines how, throughout history, the Church has changed in response to events and goes on to consider how it is adapting to contemporary circumstances. Read more

17 Jan 2025

in Training

Readers’ Conference 2025

The annual gathering of Portsmouth Readers will give opportunities to nourish your soul, spirit, mind and body. Read more

24 Jan 2025

in Training

Carl Jung and God

This course will examine the fundamentals of Jung’s depth psychology, paying particular attention to its significance for religious belief. Jung felt that psychoanalysis had emerged to fill a vacuum in the western world, with churches losing the ability to address the pressing issues of inner life. Read more

28 Jan 2025

in Training

Women, Ecology and the Global South

This course will discuss key concepts and thinking within feminist ecotheology with special reference to perspectives from the Global South. It will provide a broad overview of the themes and discussions within feminist ecotheology, particularly how these discussions have evolved over time. It will also look at the key discussions being raised by feminist ecotheologians and faith-based activists based in the Global South, exploring how impulses from black, liberation, indigenous and womanist thinking have affected these voices. Read more

13 Feb 2025

in Training

Listening to the Psalms

This course is for anyone who wants discover new and rich ways of encountering the Bible, or wants to learn how to experience church music in deeper ways. No musical experience of any kind is necessary. Read more

17 Mar 2025

in Training

Reading Scripture Together: Dangerous Sisters and Daring Sisterhood

In this day where we will be reading scripture together, we will look at the many different faces of biblical sisters: stories of conniving sisters (Lot’s daughters), dangerous sisters (Dina, Tamar), rivalrous sisters (Rachel and Leah), redemptive “sisters” (Ruth and Naomi), and dutiful devoted sisters (Mary and Martha). Together, we will see the variety of ways that biblical literature depicts sisters and we will discuss what wisdom we can draw from these depictions. Read more