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: Written by: Alex Walker; Published: 14 October 2025

Part 1 Training on overcoming the obstacles to becoming a synodal parish . . . especially positional thinking

Wednesday October 15, 2025

One of the biggest challenges to creating a synodal parish is positional thinking, i.e. sides each holding on to their position so strongly that each one is unable to really listen and learn from the other side. This training session will help address this issue and offer guidance how to move past this obstacle to holding the belief that maybe, just maybe, each of us has something more to learn about all of this.

This program is sponsored by CCRI and is Part 1. Part 2 will follow on Saturday, October 18 where participants will move into breakout rooms and will have the opportunity to put this training into practice.

Sign on is https://zoom.us/j/2429500175: Password is spirit. To find the times for you in your locale, click on Our Universal Calendar and scroll down to this date, October 15.

Realising the Sacred

: Written by: David Jackson; Published: 14 October 2025

REALISING THE SACRED The Ways of a Contemplative Synodal Church. Flyer attached – available from Franciscan Publications – details on the flyer.

It has taken me 87 years to come to the very unoriginal conviction shared by increasing number of gurus, that unless the synodal process hinges on the recovery of the Church’s mystical tradition and genius and on the practice of some form of silent contemplative prayer (the birthright of all the baptised – all potential ‘mystics’) leading to the gift of the contemplative gaze, mind and action – it will falter and risk death. The book teases this theme out from its origins in the life of Christ, and then applies it to the possible synodal shape of the Church’s worship, community life and mission. I am convinced that unless we marinate and reconstellate all our ‘thinking’ in the sea of some form of contemplative practice – the synodal method of ‘conversations in the spirit’ will remain just that – a method – insufficiently grounded to solve the present tensions, polarities and divisions in the Church – and act as the salve to heal all ecumenical, interreligious and even society’s divisions and hostilities. (eg Open Eucharistic tables tomorrow)

Flyer: Realising the Sacred

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The Season of Creation with SCIAF

: Written by: Alex Walker; Published: 12 August 2025

For this year's Season of Creation, a number of Scottish Faith Organisations have come together to offer four zoom sessions that address some of the key challenges and offer ways of responding that give us, and future generations, hope.