Hi folks, i hope you are doing ok? This week we are meeting at the Crescent Club in Cullercoats, meeting at 7.30, I hope you can join us! I put a call out a few weeks ago for people to write a blog on either music, art, film, stories for our conversation, i’m thankful that the first persons to raise …
Elections and all that…
Hello people. Hope you are well and enjoying the sunshine. This week we will be meeting at The Quarry pub at 7.30pm. This week the blog has been written by Sue. Last week we had our local elections and I was asked to write about it for this week’s blog. So thinking about this I wondered what to write should …
Call not for peace in the Holy Land, call for justice so that peace may root itself deeply and flourish.
Hi All, This week we will be meeting in the Enigma Tap at 7:30pm – looking forward to seeing those of you who can join us there. This weeks blog is a guest blog from David Hardman. The following is a little introduction to who he is and what he does. The Methodist Liaison Office & Revd David Hardman The …
Who owns the Pond?
This weeks blog comes a friend of ours called Tracey Hume who is a deacon in the Methodist Church and currently works as the Newcastle Methodist District’s Community Engagement Enabler. She has also been pivotal in setting up a Poverty and Truth Commission in Gateshead. We all know that the cost of living is going up. Fuel bills, cost of …
Che Guevara – ‘Influencer – Prophet’?
Hi folks, i hope you are doing ok… the weather is helping me stay sane!! We will meet on zoom on sunday night at 8.00pm, i look forward to seeing you. If you would like the link then let me know. For those of you in the BFX messenger group I will also post the link in there sometime on …
Michelle Obama: Influencer – Prophet
Hi folks, we are living in difficult times right now and we need to look after each other… at the moment we will continue to meet, but if you have underlying health issues then please consider staying away. If any of you want to talk or need specific help because you are self-isolating, then please do contact me and if we can …
Walter Brueggemann
Born in Nebraska in 1933, Walter Brueggemann is an Old Testament theologian, St Louis Cardinals fan and for some, one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last 40 years or so. He uses a practice called rhetorical criticism (basically looking at the meaning behind words, phrases, images, gestures, performances, texts, films etc that people use to communicate) …
Shared Interest…
Hi folks, this week we are meeting at Hugos in Tynemouth, meeting from 8.00pm. This weeks reflection comes from Martin. Shared Interest: the Art of Enabling Hot topics’ in recent years in the news have included: The environment and threats to it. A decade of austerity after the Lehmans-triggered crash (we’ll leave a critique of free capitalism for now!) The …