The Free to Believe 2024 Residential Conference planning is complete!
We are hugely excited to have Kathy Galloway and Victoria Turner
as the speakers for our national conference next year, 2024
at The Hayes Conference Centre
The background is an attack by Edwin Muir on the austerity and bleakness of Calvinism. In 'The Incarnate One,' Muir writes: “The Word made flesh is here made word again, /A word made word in flourish and arrogant crook. /See there King Calvin with his iron pen, /And God three angry letters in a book”; and the mystery of the incarnation becomes “an ideological instrument”. By contrast, Muir wants to see God not simply in spoken word but in beauty, music and in the sacraments.
Kathy Galloway offers her more radical take on the challenge. "We are embodied, whole persons, and the human body is to be cherished, not starved, beaten and killed, because it is holy. ... We are co-creators-we can create nothing out of nothing, but only in relationship and exchange with the earth."
Detailed information and booking form here.