Telling Encounters: Encounter

Donald Eadie

Telling Encounters: Stories of Disability, Faith, Church and God was our 9th annual conference on disability & church in partnership between St Martin in the Fields & Inclusive Church. Devised during the pandemic, we were entirely online for the first time and hosted by HeartEdge. It was a steep learning curve to work out how to transition the conference to an online format with talks, workshops, small groups, liturgy, marketplace, chaplaincy and coffee hangout. Thanks to the disabled-led planning team and conference staff for making this work.

Sadly due to technical issues BSL & captions were not captured on all the recordings. Huge thanks to Rachel Noel, our tech lead, for the enormous undertaking of streaming, recording and rendering the films to be the best they can be.

Krysia Waldock’s blog conference report.

Fiona MacMillan wrote about the conference planning in Finding Abundance (ed Samuel Wells, Canterbury 2021)

News of the latest conference and an archive of materials from earlier conferences can be found at https://www.inclusive-church.org/disability-conferences/.

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Sermon (05.06)

Jun 5, 2022 | Featured, Reflection

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 5th June 2022, Pentecost, by Revd Dr Sam Wells.

Sermon (08.05)

May 8, 2022 | Featured, Reflection

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 8th May 2022, The Fourth Sunday of Easter, by Revd Dr Sam Wells.

Contemplation As A Gift

Apr 10, 2022 | HeartEdge

This series will explore four contemplative communities that have emerged in the last decade that seek to anchor people in the roots of the Christian tradition with an openness, a humility and a joy.

Sermon (20.03)

Mar 20, 2022 | Featured, Reflection

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 20th March 2022, The Third Sunday of Lent, by Revd Sally Hitchiner.

Sermon (06.03)

Mar 7, 2022 | Featured, Reflection

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 6th March 2022, The First Sunday of Lent, by Revd Richard Carter.

Sermon (29.05)

May 29, 2022 | Featured, Reflection

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 29th May 2022, The Seventh Sunday of Easter, by Revd Dr Sam Wells.

Sermon (01.05)

May 2, 2022 | Featured, Reflection

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 1st May 2022, The Third Sunday of Easter, by Revd Dr Sam Wells.

Church History Week 5

Apr 10, 2022 | HeartEdge

This course provides an introduction to and an overview of church history. If we are to see a humbler Church and a bigger God, we need to deal with the history of the Church to understand where we are now, and why.

Sermon (13.03)

Mar 13, 2022 | Featured, Reflection

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Sunday 13th March 2022, The Second Sunday of Lent, by Revd Dr Sam Wells.

Music and Liturgy for Lent (HeartEdge)

Mar 6, 2022 | HeartEdge

Andy Salmon (North West Co-ordinator of HeartEdge and Rector of Sacred Trinity Church) give tips about creative liturgical resources for Lent whilst Andrew Earis (Director of Music at St Martin-in-the-Fields) and the Manchester HeartEdge Choral Scholars share musical resources to help freshen up your lenten experience.