URC Spirituality | Fliss Barker | Friends Activity https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/members-directory/flissymbarker/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Fliss Barker's friends. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:29:05 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 e3b9eaee0ecfa0a0e2b97ffa3d9f532b Mark Argent started the topic Andrew Brown: The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ in the forum Waiting for the light: Advent online retreat 2025 https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/waiting-for-the-light-advent-online-retreat-2025/forum/topic/andrew-brown-the-eternal-buddha-is-no-one-else-but-the-eternal-christ/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:44:38 +0000 Andrew’s talk, The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ—a talk given to a United Reformed Church Advent online retreat called “Waiting for the light” on December 2nd, 2025

is at andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-eternal-buddha-is-no-one-else-but.html

]]> 092e35bfb0c8777544d89f34a7885c8d Mark Argent joined the group Waiting for the light: Advent online retreat 2025 https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/932/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:20:34 +0000 0 34b01d6bb0ae25243ece7974fc4ea3e7 Mark Argent joined the group Waiting for the light: Advent online retreat 2025 https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/931/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:42:13 +0000 0 f869a482fb2d5a91e03662008627ed32 Nichola Glasse is attending Waiting for the light: advent online retreat. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/841/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:54:55 +0000 0 a3f888c6fa1369e427854bf1bee1e210 Mark Argent is attending Waiting for the light: advent online retreat. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/833/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:17:40 +0000 0 2b366b570649762470974fc8cb605e3f Nichola Glasse is attending Online quiet day on the feast of the Visitation. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/779/ Fri, 16 May 2025 16:39:39 +0100 0 d5828e1bb3e5e0e9d7fbe4c213b51d06 Mark Argent is attending Quiet day. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/777/ Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:47 +0100 0 2d270f5fd17991dd8f5edd2a1744eaea Mark Argent is attending New beginnings: online quiet day. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/721/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:25:27 +0000 0 91ab968e5b9d86f771820976a4c08335 Mark Argent will not be attending New beginnings: online quiet day anymore. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/720/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:25:07 +0000 0 d40b82682b3460e3c206c0eb674a680f Mark Argent is attending New beginnings: online quiet day. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/714/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:03:53 +0000 0 96612c29daaff5b93449343bc6dbcfcc Mark Argent will not be attending New beginnings: online quiet day anymore. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/713/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:03:35 +0000 0 afa338351c797bf250f364fcb2dd180b Mark Argent is attending New beginnings: online quiet day. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/711/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:29:05 +0000 0 264ecbb0d80b08568d82d0b6c45484eb Mark Argent will not be attending New beginnings: online quiet day anymore. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/710/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:28:47 +0000 0 9066ef629e88dd70d0a5679480a57226 Mark Argent is attending New beginnings: online quiet day. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/709/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:25:49 +0000 0 990a06a88eee1e581b333b482f9adc28 Mark Argent started the topic Thoughts from "Reflecting on Epiphany" in the forum Reflecting on Epiphany https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/reflecting-on-epiphany/forum/topic/thoughts-from-reflecting-on-epiphany/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:41:16 +0000 Writing this part way through the “Reflecting on Epiphany” week, having uploaded some of the documents of the week.

]]> 80b92b8e07df74037c713ae94f997848 Mark Argent created the doc Sheila Maxey: Hopkins' "God's Grandeur" in the group Reflecting on Epiphany https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/657/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:38:53 +0000 917e7b6a8c6fb8104bdfb423a49e60e8 Mark Argent created the doc Susan Durber's powerpoint in the group Reflecting on Epiphany https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/656/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:36:10 +0000 8deec299492301e6bdd4edb445738bb1 Mark Argent created the doc Powerpoint from Geoffrey Clarke in the group Reflecting on Epiphany https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/655/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:27:44 +0000 f0778d2dabc3d659532489275866974f Nichola Glasse is attending Reflecting on Epiphany. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/552/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:50:40 +0000 0 5f493204090a5d948c9e559d49b6c123 Mark Argent is attending Reflecting on Epiphany. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/551/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:48:24 +0000 0 acba7defce37e56106021be2d24d53a3 Nichola Glasse is attending Online advent retreat: Love, joy, peace and hope. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/491/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:55:27 +0000 0 b5a0a07cd87fe808d85ca5884a42c204 Mark Argent is attending Online advent retreat: Love, joy, peace and hope. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/480/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:31:30 +0000 0 0c835acd8592cfb6fe8c0473a569b788 Nichola Glasse is attending What’s a quiet day?. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/457/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 08:32:30 +0100 0 e57f0a1a7cdd029421f581288a8d0965 Mark Argent is attending Quiet day: “You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect”. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/432/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:34:25 +0100 0 a3baa0db1ecdc9cdfdda8c68dfdcd235 Mark Argent is attending Candlemas Quiet Day. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/407/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 01:50:46 +0000 0 64983b043da680b521afbf66c19f3580 Nichola Glasse is attending Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/382/ Sun, 08 Oct 2023 08:32:06 +0100 0 5b3af821ee0846bc4b1a9485ddfdbeea Mark Argent is attending … in the long history of God’s patience with humanity. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/373/ Sun, 27 Aug 2023 23:40:37 +0100 0 5f67fff9856a0be7ecc424396102e310 Mark Argent's profile was updated https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/365/ Wed, 03 May 2023 23:38:04 +0100 0 414e46732b7b6765d457c30b779da485 Mark Argent's profile was updated https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/364/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:07:31 +0100 0 17dee6fc4a31bd1c3855707adf78833c Mark Argent started the topic Mark Argent: Waiting itself in the forum Praying with those who wait http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/forums/topic/mark-argent-waiting/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 01:07:55 +0000 Waiting itself

I’d like to pick up the idea of waiting as something of value in itself — not waiting for something, or waiting as a form of “deferred gratification”.

 

I remember an article by Stephen Sykes where he referred to St John’s gospel as coming from “the community around John” and forming part of “the long history of God’s patience…[Read more]

]]> 75a8fbfb156ced6b447778126cc940b1 Mark Argent created the doc David Cornick: The origins of Advent: past experience and present spirituality https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/351/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:44:23 +0000 ad15991c9e2e11c6336db39a86481b89 Mark Argent started the topic Joseph's experience in the forum Journey and Discovery http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/journey-and-discovery/forum/topic/josephs-experience/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 19:59:33 +0000 I’m Joseph sort-of of David’s line, apparently. We Jews have long memories, so I guess that’s right. We re-tell our stories. That kept things going in Babylon, but, well. My problem is that I’m what they call a “Mamzer”… something happened way back when. Something happened the wrong side of the blanket — people become “Mamzers” as a result, and we…[Read more]

]]> a7d94ffbd60a42958e0fe8e1dbcefd26 Geoff Wright started the topic A Shepherd in the forum Journey and Discovery http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/journey-and-discovery/forum/topic/a-shepherd/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:13:09 +0000 A SHEPHERD

I really shouldn’t be talking to you. This job, being a shepherd, is really crucial to me. I’m not originally from around these parts, and people in Bethlehem are suspicious of me, being a stranger and all. We’re not really popular in town anyway, smelling of sheep and dirt as you do after a few weeks out here, so I only go there when…[Read more]

]]> 4fea69cf4a8d8ee12d7e0c4f8fca54f6 Geoff Wright started the topic Fom Morning Prayer on 7th January in the forum Journey and Discovery http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/journey-and-discovery/forum/topic/fom-morning-prayer-on-7th-january/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:11:31 +0000 I am the song of the Morning Star adorning the darkness of night with the unrestrainable joy of the Eternal.  I am here, blazing across the Heavens kindling a fire that will burn deep – deep and restless in your heart.

I am here to awaken, encourage and disturb you, I am here to guide you to the Holy One who awaits you.   I am the pounding hear…[Read more]

]]> fa7b6118e2ea6984b252b573e866a275 Geoff Wright started the topic The innkeeper’s wife in the forum Journey and Discovery http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/journey-and-discovery/forum/topic/the-innkeepers-wife/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:46:04 +0000 Meditation – The innkeeper’s wife

Hello!  My name is Esther. Job, my husband, owns the Inn in Bethlehem. We’ve been run off our feet in recent weeks, haven’t had time to catch breath.  Still, we mustn’t complain. It’s good to have a little money put by.

All the extra guests have been due to the census taking place. Who would have thought that…[Read more]

]]> dfd260b08e77e9ae6d4dc95c04a42ccf Mark Argent started the topic Through the eyes of Bahman, travelling with the magi in the forum Journey and Discovery http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/journey-and-discovery/forum/topic/through-the-eyes-of-bahman-travelling-with-the-magi/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:27:42 +0000 My name is Bahman. Now, what’s left of my hair is white, but I remember that journey, many years ago — the first time I’d gone any distance from where I grew up, in Shiraz, in Persia.

Here we are follow the teachings of Zartosht — you might know him as Zarathustra — as we have for generations. Our temple has an “ancient flame” which is the term t…[Read more]

]]> a60ebd0457b39f01c0e4eee7bca92ccd Mark Argent started the topic Imagining the story in the forum Journey and Discovery http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/groups/journey-and-discovery/forum/topic/imagining-the-story/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:15:21 +0000 In the lunchtime and evening slots of Journey and Discovery, different people are imagining the Epiphany story through from the perspectives of different characters.

Being different characters in the story is a super way of seeing where it catches. The gospel narratives are all quite short, so there’s an invitation to see what surfaces in…[Read more]

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89717261239?pwd=bHBZTTF5cEVURy9JaHpVYzhMVFlZZz09

]]> aad7f303ec230d3e635037660943e36c Nichola Glasse's profile was updated https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/139/ Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:09:44 +0000 0 4b36b801dd88758d50278573a48e0053 Nichola Glasse became a registered member https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/134/ Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:55:58 +0000 0 f254a1fb44dbfe9a8d69cb22167667aa Nichola Glasse is attending Journey and Discovery: Epiphany online retreat. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/130/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:27:57 +0000 0 aae08da91342f5cf4a6cfb3d4eaab8d3 Cathy became a registered member https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/124/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:47:04 +0000 0 5cdc4bfa37bae53df1bd7e4891e983af Cathy's profile was updated https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/120/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:12:52 +0000 0 c2307f397b612540e6b5a5917cbed68b Cathy Heath is attending Journey and Discovery: Epiphany online retreat. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/118/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:10:05 +0000 0 6eaf55eb38cfb088e5f10ce0df115c91 Mark Argent is attending Journey and Discovery: Epiphany online retreat. https://urc-spirituality.org.uk/activity-streams/p/96/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:17:54 +0000 0 d8914ca91b184f6ddac983472b0f701b Mark Argent started the topic Looking forward to Journey and Discovery in the forum Journey and Discovery http://urc-spirituality.org.uk/forums/topic/looking-forward-to-journey-and-discovery/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:08:32 +0000 Coming close to Christmas I’m thinking ahead to Journey and Discovery — thinking about the Magi on their way, even before the nativity.

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