AGORA aims to create new opportunities for people to engage with the issues of the day.

News April 2008

Work and Spirit Programme launches in partnership with St Stephens Church in Bristol

Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, former Chief Advisor on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister and Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research will speak on 

The Future is up to us 

6pm April 10^th

St Stephen’s Church, St Stephen’s Avenue, Bristol BS1 1EG

To be followed by drinks reception 7 – 7.45pm

Cost £5 – pay on the door, but please reserve your place by means of

Email  ststephensbristol@btinternet.com

or Phone 0117 9277977

For further details of this series go to Renewed Corporate Life (tab right)

Chooseday has been launched within the United Bristol Healthcare Trust the largest city centre employer. We now have 20 Chooseday Champions within the organisation who are actively encouraging colleagues and friends to leave their cars at home and try some other form of work and travel. On April 1st Chooseday was also wholeheartedly adopted by St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School with around 800 of the 1100 staff and students choosing not to travel by car on that day. For more on Chooseday - go to www.chooseday.org

A Journey to a New Kind of Life is a 'different' type of course focussed on helping people to change their lifestyles in response to climate change and the environmental challenge. It is based on personal story-telling as participants explore their relationship with the earth and its resources, with money, work, travel and neighbours. It is suitable for a Lent course and offers resources drawn from the scriptures and from the life of Jesus own community. The material can be downloaded free from the tab to the right.

For those interested in the Christian faith and how it might contribute to addressing the environmental challenges of today, we offer two new resources:

A website devoted to developing a creation theology that matters, to which we invite your input - go to www.dreamofshalom.wordpress.com

A new Bristol area network designed to keep Christian people in touch with the environmental scene - go to shalombristol at

http://groups.google.com/group/shalombristol?hl=en

and request an invitation to join