Walking with Joseph
Led by Meg Warner
Is resilience the new mindfulness? It seems that once you start looking, you find it is everywhere. But do you ever wonder whether we’re getting resilience right?
This retreat explores resilience and resilient story through the biblical tale of Joseph (the Technicolour Dreamcoat one). Meg will lead us through Joseph’s story, drawing out surprising aspects of it that escaped Rice and Lloyd-Webber. She will highlight different elements of resilient behaviour and story-telling, and use it as a spring-board for evaluating our current love-affair with resilience, both in the world and the church.
You might wish to read Meg’s Joseph: A Story of Resilience, but the retreat will work just as well if you come to it fresh.
This will be a silent retreat with daily addresses and liturgy. (Timetable)
Meg Warner is an author, teacher and speaker, specialising in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and issues of the impact of trauma upon churches. She is Tutor in Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at Northern College, within Manchester’s Luther King Centre for Theology and Ministry. Meg is also a Licensed Lay Minister and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.
Her recent publications include Abraham: A journey through Lent and Joseph: A story of resilience, both published by SPCK and Tragedies and Christian Congregations: The Practical Theology of Trauma (Routledge).
This event is open to everyone.
Arrival: 3pm - 5pm
Mon 25th October
2021
Departure: 10am
Fri 29th October
2021
Residential - £480 (20% ministry discount)
