Welcome to "Summer Light" — a series of lay-led worship services that, over the course of the next 4 Sundays, will see us drawing upon J. Philip Newell’s inspiring book, "The Great Search: Turning to Earth & Soul in the Quest for Healing & Home". Newell declares that we are living in "perhaps the most important era of change the church has ever faced in the history of our religious inheritance … we are in need of a new vision …"  

Newell found the formal teaching of the church, shaped by 4th century imperial Christianity to be stifling and lacking in spiritual depth. The result is a great exile from the traditional church, leaving people in search of a real lived out soulful experience of the tenants of faith that would give new meaning and purpose. It is a call for a new vision of our faith in the world — a faith that responses to the yearning of the soul and to the healing of our relationship with the earth and one another. 

The book falls into three parts, shaped by the questions: What are we seeking? Why are we searching? How are we to search? Newell presents nine writers of the soul offering spiritual wisdom for this moment in time. We invite you to come and hear four of these wise seekers responding to their circumstances of their times. 

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