20.03.2015
Search Colloquium to Focus on Re–Ordering Liturgical Space
The keynote speaker will be Richard Giles (pictured), a facilitator in creative worship and a consultant in liturgical design. Other speakers include Thomas Gordon, Dean of Leighlin Cathedral; Michael Burrows, Bishop of the United Dioceses of Cashel, Waterford, Lismore, Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin; and Margaret Quinlan an award winning conservation architect working in Ireland.
Richard Giles holds degrees in town planning and theology. As canon theologian for the Diocese of Wakefield, he worked extensively 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. From 1999 to 2008, as Dean of Philadelphia Cathedral, he oversaw the radical renovation of the cathedral to become a place of transformative worship. In 2008 he became a Visiting Fellow of St John’s College, Durham. He continues to work as a facilitator of creative worship and a consultant in liturgical design.
PROGRAMME:
9.30 Registration
10.00 Richard Giles. “Moving the Furniture: Trivial Pursuit or Gospel Imperative?”
11.00 Coffee / tea
11.20 Thomas Gordon, Michael Burrows & Margaret Quinlan. “Liturgical Space and the Rural Context: Perspectives Pastoral and Cultural”
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Richard Giles. “Case Studies of Transformed Communities” (slide show with commentary)
14.30 Coffee / tea
15.00 Plenary Session / Discussion
16.00 Close
REGISTRATION:
To register, avail of the Paypal facility at www.searchjournal@ireland.anglican.org or send a cheque for €30.00 or UK£23.00 (Students: €15.00 or UK£11.50) to Michael Denton, 10 Dun Emer Drive, Dublin 16. Refreshments are included in the registration fee. Prior booking essential.