Programme for 2015

Sat 21st Feb, The Heart Centre, Leeds  1.30pm for 2pm start  (Granby Room, ground floor)

                        'These We Have Lost - Or Have We?'

Please bring your own ideas on the religion-inspired ideas and ideals that have lost force today - and any current replacements they may have.  Suggestions are glory, sin, forgiveness, salvation, patience, sacrifice.
Venue:  The Heart Centre is in Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds LS6 3HN.  It has its own very good cafe.  We will be in the Granby Room, ground floor.  Map at http://www.heartcentre.org.uk/contact



Sat 25th Apr,   York at the home of Ann Holt and David Rubinstein, 1.30pm for 2pm start, tea and coffee provided.

                         'Religion and Politics'

                 David Rubinstein will introduce the discussion
Venue:  6 Portland Street, York YO31 7EH. Portland Street is off Gillygate, just outside the city walls to the north west of the Minster. Anyone arriving in York by train could catch the number 1 bus just outside the station to Gillygate, the stop being slightly beyond the top of Portland Street. If anyone needs to come by car, a parking permit can be supplied, but space can't be guaranteed.



Sat 6th Jun,  The Heart Centre Leeds, 1.30pm for 2pm start.  (Granby Room, ground floor)

                            'A Non-Realist Leads Worship'

     Helen Bellamy tells us about her experience of leading  Methodists in worship
Venue: The Heart Centre, Leeds - see details above



Sat 19th Sept,  The Heart Centre Leeds, 1.30pm for 2pm start  (Granby Room, ground floor)

                                'Myths of the Vanished God'

       Anna Sutcliffe runs her workshop on the psychological value of myths of descent and return, much appreciated at this year's SoF annual conference
Venue: The Heart Centre, Leeds - see details above



Sat 14th Nov,  The Heart Centre Leeds, 1.30 for 2pm start (Granby Room, ground floor)

'A Babel of Bibles - aesthetics, translation and interpretation since 1885 '

            Nicholas Bielby

Nicholas is a SoF member, prize-winning poet and, in his professional life, an expert in the thorny topic of teaching reading.  In this session he shares discussion with us on his forthcoming book on interpretations of the Bible.
Venue: The Heart Centre, Leeds - see details above

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