Network - Contact list

Breathing Space www.breathingspace.org.uk

"an opportunity in the North East of England for people to explore and share ideas and experiences on their faith journey". Two or three day conferences a year in Newcastle with major speakers of national or international prominence. A Book Club "Journeyings" held quarterly in Middlesbrough. Other events, and links to other networks.

Contacts: Tyneside: John Sadler, 0191 285 1724 1 Albemarle Avenue, Newcastle. NE2 3NQ
e-mail: john@breathingspace.org.uk
Teesside: Michael Wright 01642 851919 25 Thornfield Road, Middlesbrough TS5 5DD
e-mail: counselg@fish.co.uk

Progressive Christianity Network - part of a wider international network

National contact: PCN Britain, St. Faith's Vicarage, 62 Red Post Hill, London. SE24 9JQ
website: www.pcnbritain.org.uk e-mail: info@pcnbritain.org.uk
American network website: www.tcpc.org

St. Mark's Centre for Radical Christianity

Sheffield 4 St. Mark's Crescent, Sheffield. S10 2SG
website: www.stmarkscrc.co.uk e-mail: info@stmarkscrc.co.uk

Sea of Faith

- an informal network of individuals and local groups "exploring and promoting religious faith as a human creation".
National contact: Sea of Faith, 15 Burton Street, Loughborough. LE11 2DT
website: www.sofn.org.uk this website has links with a large number of others
Local contacts: Bobbie Stephens Wright 59 Olympia Gardens, Morpeth. NE61 1JQ
01670 519 458 e-mail: bobbie@olympiag.freeserve.co.uk
John Pearson 3 Belle Grove Place, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4LH 0191 232 5980 e-mail: john.pearson@unn.ac.uk

ONE for Christian Exploration

- a website publication for "a British-wide network of radical Christians" ONE Website, 34 Stewart Road, Leyton, London. E15 2BB 020 8519 5892
website: www.meta-net.info

Radical Faith

website:www.radicalfaith.org.uk articles, sermons, and exchange of information on aspects of radical Christian faith today - it is based in Durham.

St. Anthony's Priory, Durham

- an ecumenical spirituality centre - space, quiet, time to reflect programme of courses, groups and individuals, spiritual direction, personal growth.
e-mail: mail@stantonyspriory.co.uk
St. Anthony's Priory, 74 Claypath, Durham. DH1 1QT. 0191 384 3747

Ashram Community

- "a network of people supporting each other in discipleship to the radical Jesus today."
National contact: John Vincent, 178 Abbeyfield Road, Sheffield. S4 7AY. 0114 243 6688
website: www.ashram.org.uk
Local contacts: Frank and Jenny Medhurst, e-mail: medhurst@clara.co.uk
Greystone, Carlton, Stockton on Tees. TS21 1DR 01740 630475

Modern Churchpeople's Union liberal forum for Anglicans mainly

- others are welcome - a forum for discussion and exploration of belief and doubt in contemporary context.
Membership Secretary: Alan Sheard, 7 Northfield, Swanland, North Ferriby. HU14 3RG
website: www.modchurchunion.org

Multi-faith Centre at the University of Derby

- access to the Inter Faith Network for the U.K.
Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and other religious faiths.
website: www.multifaith.org

Free to Believe

- informal network of liberally minded members of the United Reformed Church
website: www.freetobelieve.org.uk e-mail: info@freetobelieve.org.uk

Unitarian & Free Christian Churches

- "The world's best reformers are those who begin on themselves" - George Bernard Shaw.
website: unitarian.org.uk

Quaker Universalist Group

- an informal group of the Religious Society of Friends
Contact: Carol Wise, 24 Rose Bank, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Ilkley. LS29 7PQ
website: www.qug.org.uk e-mail: carolwise1@btinternet.com

Holy Rood House

- a residential Centre for Health and Pastoral Care &
The Centre for the Study of Theology and Health - women's, men's, and family issues
10 Sowerby Road, Thirsk. YO7 1HX Contact: Elizabeth Baxter 01845 522580
website: www.holyroodhouse.freeuk.com e-mail: holyroodhouse@centrethirsk.fsnet.co.uk

Network

- a journal for all women interested in spirituality, theology, ministry and litury
produced by catholic women's network (and of interest to men too)
Local contacts: Tyne and Wear Brid Fitzpatrick 01912 431 782
Teesside Veronica Readman 01740 644 257
National contact: Veronica Seddon, 42 Priory Road, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2PJ
website: cwnetwork.org.uk 020 8979 5902 e-mail: seddon@peter-veronica.co.uk

Living Spirituality News

- for people exploring spirituality, within & beyond traditional churches.
The Well of Willen, Newport Road, Milton Keynes, MK15 9AA 01908 200 675
website: www.living-spirituality.org.uk e-mail: spirituality@ctbi.org.uk

CANA - Christians Awakening to a New Awareness
CANA, 9 Priors Road, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon. PE28 9BT
e-mail: win.kennedy@ctbi.org.uk

Iona Community

- people seeking new ways of living the gospel of Jesus Christ in today's world
4th Floor Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2 3DH
website: www.iona.org.uk

Alternatives

- "new visions for living through holistic education and connection to the sacred dimension of life" St. James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London.W1J 9LL. 020 7287 6711
website: alternatives.org.uk e-mail: alternatives@ukonline.co.uk

Julian Meetings

- "groups who meet to grow in the practice of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradiiton"
National Contact: The Julian Meetings, The Firs, Lewes Road, Ringmer. BN8 5EU
website: www.julianmeetings.org e-mail: uk@julianmeetings.org

Small Pilgrim Places

- "breathing spaces on the pilgrim journey offering simple hospitality, quiet prayer, thoughtful conversation". Jim Cotter's work. website: www.smallpilgrimplaces.org.uk

Westar Institute (the Jesus Seminar)

- a theological forum for exchanging views on much current research and thought on Jesus, the gospels, and a radical exploration of faith.
P.O.Box 6144 Santa Rosa, California 95406 website: westar@westarinstitute.org

GreenSpirit

The Journal of Creation Spirituality www.greenspirit.org.uk

OneWorld Publications

185 Banbury Road, Oxford. OX2 7AR 01865 310 597
website: oneworld-publications.com e-mail: infor@oneworld-publications.com