Quartz Forest Church gathering 21st of May 2023 After the excitement of Easter this months forest church gathering is going to be a chance to practice things like “Forest bathing” and #SensingSpirituality, especially #SensingAwareness Please join us at 2pm outside the Crichton chapel to spend time outdoors #SensingSpirituality Please read on for more thoughts about […]
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If you look on the website you will hopefully see that a new option has been added to the main menu. #SensingSpirituality has been a theme running through Quartz activities from around 2015. This means that we have built up a track record of resources, both in ideas and experiments where we test those ideas […]
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Remembering Seasons
Alison on tour… Whilst on holiday Alison caught a glimpse of this exhibition through the window. Have you noticed changes in the seasons, a breaking in the pattern of the wheel of the year? #SensingChallenge What are the changes we need to be aware of if we are to head the warning in Jesus words […]
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Easter Saturday
8/04/2023 Come with us on a journey back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in the British Isles. We are heading west to Whithorn, more details on this page! RSVP here:
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Lent
As we prepare for our journey through Lent here is some insight from our past https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2015/02/now-pure-and-holy-time-draws-near.html?m=1 If you were given the gift of being able to truly see in this life, what impact would that have on your daily living?
How the digital world can help us worship at 6pm on Sunday the 29th of January we will be gathering in St Johns to use digital technology to worship together, and also explore ways in which access to the digital world can help us live out the Missio Dei, the mission of God. In the […]
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#SensingChallenge
The experience of being challenged and moved by experiences including love, beauty, goodness, joy, compassion, injustice, evil, suffering, death.
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#SensingAwareness
Sensing a changed quality in awareness. Often described as the feeling of being ‘at one’ with nature, oneself and others. We often slip quickly into thinking about ‘things’, or thinking about or experience of things. #SensingAwareness is more about being in a state of awareness of direct experience, mindfulness. The Divine in the world, creating […]