Last Thursday we met to discuss the section of learning to Dream Again called Choosing Life... and Living With Choices. Sam Wells uses the issue of abortion to discuss how the Church deals with difficult moral questions and how its members respond to human dilemmas and difficulties. A wide range of viewpoints emerged and many questions were formulated, some of which took Wells' questions rather further than he does. Introduced by Gareth Ingham, this proved a very worthwhile discussion.
On Thursday 17 April, at Alun Lines' request, we shall be looking at the whole chapter Learning to Read Again. Once more, Wells raises some important issues and states them in his inimitably provocative way. I'm sure we shall enjoy ourselves and widen our understanding.
This will be the final meeting of the group. We have talked more about ideas than action, but since there is no meeting in Holy week, we hope participants will use time then to recall and reflect on our debates and draw one point from them to take to heart and act upon.
Please note the range of services available in Holy Week and do set time apart then for contemplating both Our Lord'd death and his resurrection. The renewal of our faith which Wells looks towards passionately is bound to start there, because those events most truly reveal the Heart of God.
Fr Alan
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