“Re-Pitching the Tent” Colloquium: Re-Ordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission

Richard Giles

A colloquium organized by Search: A Church of Ireland Journal & the Church of Ireland Chaplaincy at TCD, with the support of Ecclesiastical Insurance will take place at The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 10.00—16.00 Saturday 18 April 2015.

The keynote speaker, Richard Giles (pictured right), grew up in Birmingham and gained degrees in town planning and theology at Newcastle University. After training at Cuddesdon, he served as a priest in the Midlands and the North of England before becoming parish development officer and canon theologian for the Diocese of Wakefield, working with parishes to rethink and redesign their buildings as part of mission strategy. His particular expertise in the design of liturgical space bore fruit in the publication of Re–Pitching the Tent, now in its third edition, Creating Uncommon Worship (2004) and Times and Seasons (2008). Other titles include Mark my Word, daily meditations on Marks’ Gospel, How to be an Anglican (2003), a light–hearted introduction to Anglican belief and practice, Here I Am (2006), reflections on the ordained life, and At Heaven’s Gate (2010), reflections on leading worship, and Walk in this Light (2013), reflections on the baptismal life, all from Canterbury Press.

From 1999 to 2008 he …read more

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