Beyond the Walls

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Webinar 10: Hospitality, Justice and Innovation
with Susannah Baker MBE

Tuesday 11th November at 1pm

Susannah Baker is the Co-Founder and Director of The Pickwell Foundation, which supports refugee resettlement and climate response initiatives in the UK and beyond. Based in North Devon, she also chairs the Community Sponsorship Alliance and co-chairs The Welcome Coalition, growing a national movement supporting communities to welcome refugees. Her work focuses on building bridges between local action and national policy and the power of rooted, relational welcome.

Susannah will share the story of The Pickwell Foundation and the community-led refugee welcome work rooted in North Devon and working Nationally — exploring how faith, place, and courage come together to shape a hospitable response in an often divided and uncertain landscape.

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Webinar 11: Lament and Love made me an innovator.
with Canon Dr Cathy Ross

Tuesday 9th December at 1pm

Cathy Ross is Head of Pioneer Leadership Training at CMS (Church Mission Society) and Lecturer in Mission at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She comes from Aotearoa/NZ. She has previously worked in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda with NZCMS. Her recent publications focus on mission and include Imagining Mission with John Taylor with Jonny Baker, (London:SCM, 2020) Her research interests are in the areas of contextual theologies, World Christianity, feminist theologies and hospitality. She is married to Steve, a GP in Oxford and they have 3 children and five grandchildren. She enjoys tennis, swimming, coffee, travel and watching the All Blacks.

“There are things that can be seen only with eyes that have cried.”
We will briefly consider Psalm 13 as an example of a narrative of lament. By reflecting on the work of Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan theologian, and the story of a pioneer Maggy Barankitse from Burundi, we will move on to see how articulating lament can lead us to practices of resistance, justice, innovation and hope.

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Webinar 14: ’Thinking missionally within a neighbourhood ecology’
with Revd Dr Al Barrett

Tuesday 10th March at 1pm

Revd Dr Al Barrett has been Rector of Hodge Hill Church (on the eastern edge of Birmingham) since 2010, and has been deeply involved with neighbours in a long-term, intergenerational journey of grassroots community-building on his multicultural outer urban estate. This collective grassroots work has in turn shaped his thinking and writing, particularly in the entangled strands of class, race, gender and ecology. Al will be inviting us to pay attention to the work of nurturing community and kinship in a world that feels like it is falling apart, and to see our neighbourhoods as complex ecosystems within which the life-giving Spirit is at work.