Whose Truth, Universally Acknowledged?

As quipped by the narrator of Pride and Prejudice, it was self-evident that, ‘a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife’. As a fish can’t see water, so we cannot perceive many things about the values that imbue our social context. This is true also of our understandings of God.

Those on the underside of power and privilege are able to show the workings of our social systems to those who inhabit the ‘normal’ and the normative. And if they are artists, they can make these things visible in a powerful way by touching truths that are so deep as to be common to all human experience – love, loss, and the divine.

In this panel three guests will explore beautiful truths about God, human beings, and how we inhabit our planet. We will explore the power and potential of story-telling, poetry and the visual arts to surprise, challenge and enrich us. How can we connect with ‘Truth’? What is ‘universal’? And what happens when we ‘acknowledge’ and articulate it?

Stories: Natalie Collins

Poetry: Reverend Mark Pryce

Visual art: Eddy Aigbe

Chair: Alison Webster

 

Modern Church

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13:30 Saturday 1 March 2025
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Speakers

Natalie Collins

Natalie Collins is a Gender Justice Specialist.  She is the Creator and Director of the DAY Programme for young people and the Own My Life course for women.  Author of Out Of Control; couples, conflict and the capacity for change, she organises Project 3:28 and co-founded the UK Christian Feminist Network.

Mark Pryce

Mark Pryce is a priest and poet whose academic work and poetry is focused around the meeting place of spirituality, gender and practical theology. His publications include Literary Companion to the Lectionary, Literary Companion to Festivals and Poetry, Practical Theology and Reflective Practice. Mark is Director of Ministry for Church of England Birmingham, and was formerly Dean of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. He is a Chaplain to the King.

Eddy Aigbe

Eddy Aigbe is a Nigerian-born visual artist, multimedia painter, and art tutor based in Birmingham UK, who believes that creativity is inherent to humanity and that symbolism serves as a universal language for spiritual expression. He has recently completed a commission for Hodge Hill Church in Birmingham, ‘Stations of the Cross’ which exemplifies this philosophy. Eddy is also a Senior Project Manager currently working for the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Partnership Campaign Project at Citizens UK.

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