Root & Branch Zooms… Speaking Out
SPEAKING OUT Thursday 22nd Jan, 8 – 9.30pm London time |
| SPEAKING OUT Root & Branch offers a forum for us to hear each other. Our Church urges us to synodality. Here at R&B we try to live it. In the next of our ongoing opportunities to share, three of our Root & Branch friends will briefly relate what happened when they spoke out about deep issues in our Church. They’ll invite us to offer our experiences. Joyce Shepherd-Thorn from Malta has a rich lifetime of working in Africa and elsewhere, always for practical compassion and justice. Rhiannon Parry Thompson is a valued member of our Core team, who shares how painfully the Church views her “irregular relationship.” Angela Hanley is a theologian and author in Ireland who models robust thought and compassion. Quietly chairing and gathering their thoughts and ours will be Kevin Gallagher, also from our Core team. He asks: have you ever spoken out? What was the turning-point? What was the cost to you? What the reward? The Synod on Synodality has been supposed to be a worldwide exercise in listening to each other. Yet the magisterium soon proved that hollow. In our own churches, we may have spoken out, but often with painful consequences. Is this what Jesus modelled? Bring your experience to Speaking Out. Let’s hear each other. |
Thursday 22nd January, 8pm London time 9pm ROME 10pm DURBAN 3pm NEW YORK 12pm LOS ANGELES 12pm VANCOUVER Friday 23rd January 1.30am MUMBAI 4am PERTH 7am SYDNEY 9am WELLINGTON |