Advent @ Chapel of Unity

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The Chapel of Unity will offer a 20-minute poem and reflection each Monday evening at 6pm via Zoom beginning on 29th November to 20th December.   We will reflect on poems from Haphazard by Starlight ed. Janet Morley. Do join us. 

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Radical Presence

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We are delighted that Chapel of Unity Trustee and Rector of Berkswell Mark Bratton is going to lead a 7-week Radical Presence course created by the Charity Green Christian. 
 
Session 1 – 11th January – Womb
Session 2 – 18th January – Jordan
Session 3 – 1st February – Kairos
Session 4 – 8th February – Flesh
Session 5 – 12th April – Contagion
Session 6 – 19th April – Tomb
Session 7 – 26th April – Emmaus
 
The sessions will last from 7.30 – 9 pm.
 
The course was created by the Charity Green Christian as an initiative to help churches build a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world after the pandemic. The online initiative will foster ambition to tackle the crises of environmental breakdown, inequality and polarisation and help build support for a ‘just recovery. The pandemic has come at a critical time in the climate and ecological emergency, with the postponement of COP26, the United Nations climate summit which was due to take place in Glasgow this November.  But it has also provoked unprecedented readiness for change: a recent YouGov poll found only 9% want life to return to ‘normal’.  Radical Presence enables these longings to find their voice among Christians in the UK.  

Over seven sessions, Radical Presence stimulates conversations which draw on the Bible, Christian faith, experience, science, and analysis.  

Paul Bodenham, who led the development of Radical Presence, said:

“It’s becoming clear that there is no longer a ‘normal’ to go back to.  In fact, ‘normal’ was the cause of many of our problems.  People are expressing a ‘hunger and thirst for righteousness’ with an intensity I’ve never witnessed before.  With Radical Presence they will discover that they are not alone, and that together we can mobilise change.  If there is any way to honour those whose lives have been lost, it must surely be in our efforts to build a better society.  But we need to be quick – if we leave it until church doors are unlocked, we may miss our chance.”

These meetings will be run online using Zoom, so people will need devices capable of supporting it. 

Those wishing to join should contact Mark  via [email protected]. 

 

Faith & Peace Exhibition

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The exhibition ‘Faith and Peace’ will be in the Chapel of Unity,  Coventry Cathedral from the 28th October – until early afternoon on the 17th  November.

This exhibition looks at how the three Abrahamic  faiths promote peace – in their teaching, and in the lives of their people. It tells stories of their peace-makers. It shows how each stresses hospitality and welcome for the stranger, including the stranger of other faiths. It glimpses the textual and practical search for peace in each of these “Religions of the Book”. 

The exhibition is part of a three year project by the Bradford Peace Museum,  sponsored by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.  The project has worked with women from across the faith communities and produced artwork that is part of the exhibition. Their art reflects many aspects, including a ‘Tree of life for the healing of the nations’, depicting  the experiences of a group of Syrian refugees.

The exhibition will be open daily during usual Cathedral hours.

German Lutheran Advent Service 2018

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2pm, Sunday 23rd December

in the Chapel of Unity, Coventry Cathedral

The service will be bi-lingual

and will be followed by light refreshments

Palestinian Goods will be on sale before and after the service

Regular services in German are held at 2pm on the 4th Sunday of each month

In the Chapel of Unity, Coventry Cathedral

 

Everyone is welcome