This small group began in an attempt to offer women a chance to explore their experience of motherhood within the context of their faith.
Many parents with small children struggle to maintain their prayer life and can sometimes feel isolated from their church communities if they spend much of worship services in creche or Sunday school. Parenthood is not always actively supported and valued in our churches as one of the most important and demanding callings and ministries we find ourselves entrusted with.
There are many questions to ask about how we share in and nurture our children's faith and choices. There are issues to explore about the language and images we use for God.
The Motherhood, God and Theology Group aims to look at some of these questions through reading relevant books and novels together, discussion, prayer and reflection on our practical experience of being mothers. Everybody's experience is valid as it is the raw material in and through which we can hopefully discover more of how God is present in motherhood and motherhood is present in God.
In addition to regular meetings we organise occasional quiet days for more in-depth discussion, and to provide space for prayer and reflection. The format and content of all our meetings is shaped by those who attend.
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If you would like to come to any of the meetings or would like more information, please contact Revd Bridget Macaulay.
