Cake and Questions

Hawking, Dawkins and God

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During our meeting on Thursday 7th May, as well as enjoying marzipan and blackcurrant muffins, we listened to a York Courses CD, ‘Hawking, Dawkins and God’ as a basis for our discussion. John Polkinghorne, an Anglican Priest, also Fellow of the Royal Society and a former Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University discussed his Christian faith in the light of New Atheism and explained why he believes in God.

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We meet every Thursday in the Meeting Room at 10.30. Our meeting starts with some time to catch up on news and enjoy sampling the different baking which we have each week. Discussion follows which is based around a book or other resources linked with the Bible.

At the moment we are continuing to explore some of the questions from the York Lent material that we followed in the weeks leading up to Easter, which we’ve found very interesting.

COVID SITUATION

Sorry, but, for the time being, the Church will be closed, even for worship, from now on; probably until the end of January.
We will still be offering services online, week by week, on our website here.
There is also a Tuesday Meditation page this is updated every week.
If you need us, you can also still contact
- The Rector on 01387 254126/07487 653069, or at rector(AT)stjohnsdumfries.org; or
- The Church Office on 07754 596140 or at pastadmin(AT)stjohnsdumfries.org
Stay safe; and we look forward to seeing you again in February

Give & MakeUp

Give & MakeUp accept lightly used makeup & toiletries and give them to refugees and to women escaping abuse . Smalls for All give bras to women in Africa who are at risk of being raped. The wearing of a bra suggests wealth and lessens their risk. Give & MakeUp are at PO Box 855 London W4 4AW and Smalls for All are at 108 Buchanan Crescent, Elieburn, Livingston EH54 7EF. More details available from Kalpana Ratnam-Roarty or Margaret Bone/MU. You can contact either via the Church Office.

Seasons Of Giving

The second 4-part instalment of the Seasons of Giving course will start the week beginning 18th January and run until the week ending 12th February. If you were part of a group/chat pair for the first part, your group leader/partner will get in touch soon to arrange meeting times. Since you cannot now collect the booklet for Part 2 from the church yourself, we have emailed it in PDF format to as many people as we can and have also delivered a few print copies. If you really can’t manage with a PDF, please contact the Church Office and we’ll see (but not promise) what we can do.

If you have not yet got involved, it’s not too late! PDFs for the first instalment are still available or you can join one of the existing groups – please contact the Church Office (pastadmin(AT)stjohnsdumfries.org / 07754 596140) to arrange this.

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Cake and Questions

Hawking, Dawkins and God

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