​Rooted in God’s Earth
Sun 8th August at 5pm on Zoom
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​Where Psyche meets Gaia: how can Ecopsychology contribute to the healing and wellbeing of our own selves and the planet?
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The goal of Ecopsychology is to see the needs of the Planet and those of the person as a continuum. When people reconnect to the more-than-human world, they ‘come to their senses’ and feel at home both in their human bodies and in the natural world.

This return to 'right relationship' with ‘Source’ and nature implies a right relationship with Spirit, without which all efforts at healing the nature-human relationship will fall short. The session will be led by John Newton. Please email Petra Griffiths here for the Zoom invitation.

Click here to read our Weekly News Update including our upcoming 'Rooted in God's Earth' session on Sun 8th August, a Citizens picnic on Sun 15th August, and recruitment for a new Assistant Churchwarden. ​ ​

​Our small Citizens training group, who have been having 1-to1 conversations with many of you over
​ the past few months, want to broaden out our conversations by inviting everyone to a Citizens Bring
​ & Share Picnic on Sun 15th August 1pm-to-3pm. Bring some lunch and join our small groups sharing
​ on trans/non-binary identity, race, faith and mental health & wellbeing, deepening relationships at church, and any other topics you’re passionate to share about.

Please click here to read a report to the congregation on the 7th June 2021 PCC meeting including an update on operational issues, business planning, election of PCC officers and Standing Committee membership.
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Click here to read our Weekly News Update including St James's Day celebrations on Sun 25th July, Eco Contemplative Liturgy, and recruitment for a Digital Communications Officer.

Mostly easy walking with occasional slopes and a modest risk of mud.  Wear boots or strong shoes.
 
We’ll stay outdoors, so no pub lunch:  please bring your own picnic to eat in a park.
 
Meet outside Wimbledon Park tube station (District Line) at 10am on Sat 24th July.  There are public transport options if you choose to leave the walk along the way.
 
Please let Rob know if you’re coming: rob@hullonline.org 

Click here to read our Weekly News Update including information about St James's Day festivities on Sun 25th July and an art commission to mark the UN Climate change Conference (COP26) in November.

We're joining the Wildlife Trust’s 30 Days Wild challenge – with a twist.

​We’ll be in St James's courtyard every day (except Saturdays) in June with #30DaysMicroWild, featuring different post-Covid aspects of the courtyard each day e.g. ‘weeds’ growing in cracks, lichens, succession and soil formation in action.

​One quarter of the courtyard will be left alone - rewilded! - for this month. In the past we have sometimes ‘peopled’ the church to maintain a human presence. Join us this month in peopling the courtyard as plans are made for its future.

There’ll be poetry reading and writing, microscope activities, drawing, photography, music, mini-botany tours, print-making, conversation and anything else you would like to offer! Join us in the courtyard, follow us on Twitter @EcoSJP and the Aftermath blog here or go wild in your own places and send us updates churchwardens@sjp.org.uk.​

Thursday 3rd June at 4.30pm
​on Zoom

​Exploring how poetry emerges from, and gives voice to, diverse experiences of exile, flight, abuse, hope, refuge and belonging.

This is the third of a 4-part series on the themes of Migration, Theology and Community.
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Register for this free event via eventbrite here. 

Four poets – Amir Darwish, Jennifer Langer, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé – and Lia Shimada (chair) will explore how poetry emerges from, and gives voice to, diverse experiences of exile, flight, abuse, hope, refuge and belonging. They will be joined by representatives from the Helen Bamber Foundation – a pioneering human rights charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers who are the survivors of extreme human cruelty.

Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community (published by Jessica Kingsley, 2020) brings together over 35 writers, poets, artists and practitioners, from primarily Jewish, Muslim and Christian backgrounds. Royalties from book sales will be donated to the Helen Bamber Foundation, with whom HeartEdge has a longstanding relationship. This event is co-sponsored by the Susanna Wesley Foundation, which facilitated the production of the book.

Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, and Co-Convenor of the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network.

Tawona Sitholé is Artist in Residence of the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow. He co-founded Seeds for Thought, an arts organization based in Glasgow.

Amir Darwish is a poet and writer of Kurdish origin, whose work has been widely translated. Born in Aleppo, he came to Britain as an asylum seeker in 2003. Amir holds advanced degrees in History, International Relations, and Creative and Life Writing. He is currently working on his doctorate.

Jennifer Langer is a poet and the founding director of Exiled Writers Ink. She has edited four anthologies of exiled literature and is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Lia Shimada is a geographer and theologian based at the University of Roehampton, where she serves as Senior Researcher for the Susanna Wesley Foundation and Associate Chaplain of Whitelands College. She is the editor of Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020).

Our Eco Contemplative Liturgy this month will be held on Sunday 23rd May at 3pm on Zoom.

We will finish in time to join St James's APCM (Annual Parochial Church meeting) at 4pm.
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Please email ecochurch@sjp.org.uk in order to get the Zoom link and liturgy sheet. Those attending regularly will receive an email with the details.
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​If you are in the fortunate position of having some outside space, please do Zoom from outside, or from a window/door with a view. Alternatively, you might like to collect a leaf, flower, stone or shell before the liturgy. Participants will be invited to speak about their experience in their garden, view or object if they would like to.  
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The session will be open from 2.50pm. Arriving before 3.00pm will enable any glitches with audio or video to be sorted.  You are welcome to stay a while afterwards to chat with others. We are especially interested inore sustainable ways of living that you have adopted. ​