St Bride’s is the Church of England’s Parish Church for the University and Canning area of Liverpool. We are committed to a vision of faith which is creative in worship, progressive in thought and inclusive of everyone. We’re offering something radically different from most mainstream churches.
If a community whose life is centred around LGBT, multifaith, meditation, music, arts, peace work & ecology sounds like fun then come along!
Sunday 5th May
10am Holy Communion “The Spirit Challenges the Church Through Inclusive Christianity” with Gerry Proctor
6.30pm Christian Meditation (all welcome, we’re all beginners!) Refreshments from 6pm.
Sunday 12th May
10am Morning Prayer “The Spirit Challenges the Church Through Emergant Christianity” with Dr Jon Jelfs
6.30pm “The Well” Celtic Worship Community (refreshments 6pm)
Saturday 18th May
10am - 4pm Pentecost art workshop, all welcome.
Sunday 19th May
10am Holy Communion “The Spirit of Life and the Church of the Future” with Guy Elsmore
6.30pm “Open Table” LGBT Worship Community (refreshments 6pm)
Sunday 26th May
10am Morning Prayer “The Trinity” with Dr. Steve Shakespeare.
4.00pm “St Bride’s Community” Sharing life, prayer and food together
6.30pm “Ruach” Sacred Movement drawing together Qi Gong and Christian Mysticism led by Ruth Stock (refreshments from 6pm)
Every Monday at 7.30am Morning Prayer (not Bank Holidays).
Every Wednesday at 9am Celtic Morning Prayer followed by coffee
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St Bride’s is on Percy St/Catharine St Liverpool L8 7LT
email: stbridesliverpool@yahoo.co.uk or call 07932 543 900 
Talk at St Bride’s by Dr. Chris Allen
Preamble: From Socialism to Christianity
I have spent a lifetime searching for socialism. It all began when I was 13. I liked ‘alternative’ rock and punk music and, from that, my exposure to radical politics began. The ideas propounded by the bands that I was listening to fell into the categories of socialism and anarchism. They provided me with a way of understanding the world around me. It was 1983. This was Thatcher’s Britain. My father was variously in work, out of work and on strike. Why are good people treated so badly? It made no sense, until I began to listen to music.
Sermon at Open Table, by The Rev Mark Waters, at St Bride’s 21.04.2013
The raising of Tabitha contains strong echoes the story of the raising of Jairus’s daughter by Jesus. The same details in a narrative. The mourners kept outside. The command from the holy man for the dead to person to get up. And the purpose of the story we assume, is to demonstrate that the early church and its leaders, were able to perform the same acts of healing – and raising - as the Master.
Defying death, the ability to reverse the effects of mortality, is something which intrigues us as human beings. It is the ultimate answer to our condition. The subject of countless legends and stories. What all the money on cosmetic surgery and beauty products are also trying to do. To wind back the remorseless effects of time on the human body.
So as a story to set as the main text for a Sunday in the season of Easter I am not really very impressed with the raising of Tabitha. Because for me it’s a story about resuscitation, not a story about resurrection. And there’s a world of difference in between.
Early morning rising,
while men sleep, women rise early,
waking, wondering, weeping:
the human one, the son of a woman who lived like a son of God is dead.
Hard to believe, impossible to deny -
the wood, the nails, the mocking crown, the blood run down,
the cry – IT IS FINISHED.
Yes – finished, dead, moribund,
all our hopes and dreams lost, thwarted, slain, deprived, crucified.
What now?
Tandem Parachute Jump July 27th 2013.
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I know that the research is providing earlier diagnosis, better treatments and positive outcomes…but more can be done to ensure many more are able to live through their with blood cancer.
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