{"id":4785,"date":"2016-02-08T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2016-03-19T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T22:18:19","slug":"lent-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/lent-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent course 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHow can we sing the Lord\u2019s song in a strange land?\u201d asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+137.1-6&amp;version=NRSV\" target=\"_blank\">Psalmist<\/a>; and for our part, we may sometimes feel \u201cout of place\u201d even when we\u2019re not physically far from home. Yet saints and sinners down the centuries have shown that an enduring strand of hope can be found in unexpected or even apparently desolate places.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4787\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Albert_Camus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4787\" class=\"wp-image-4787 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Albert_Camus-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Albert_Camus\" width=\"190\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Camus<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Set variously in the townships and deserts of North Africa, a coastal settlement in Latin America, and the wilderness of the human heart, Camus\u2019 stories don&#8217;t shy away from the sense of alienation that can be part of the human condition; yet at the same time they reflect his belief that value and meaning can be found as we learn to live decisively and authentically, in openness to and solidarity with one another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is this strand of hope which Trinity&#8217;s Lent Course this year sets out to explore. Written by our minister Revd Dominic Grant, the 6-session Lent Course and accompanying Sunday worship series is based upon <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/exile-and-the-kingdom\/albert-camus\/carol-cosman\/9780141188256\" target=\"_blank\">Exile and the Kingdom<\/a><\/em>, a 1957 collection of six short stories by the Nobel-winning French-Algerian writer and philosopher <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Camus\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Camus<\/a> (1913-1960).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Course will start in the week beginning Monday 15 February and will continue through to Easter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4788 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Exile_and_the_Kingdom_cover-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Exile_and_the_Kingdom_cover\" width=\"153\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Exile_and_the_Kingdom_cover-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Exile_and_the_Kingdom_cover-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Exile_and_the_Kingdom_cover.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is recommended &#8211; but not essential &#8211; that participants read the relevant story each week in Camus\u2019 book <em>Exile and the Kingdom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subject to numbers of participants, groups will be organised for this Lent Course on Monday\/Tuesday\/Thursday evenings and Friday lunchtimes (though some weekly times may have to be varied). Offers to host and\/or lead groups are also welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To sign up, please see the poster on the church notice board in the Mansel Road Centre, or contact us by phone\/email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow can we sing the Lord\u2019s song in a strange land?\u201d asked the Psalmist; and for our part, we may sometimes feel \u201cout of place\u201d even when we\u2019re not physically far from home. Yet saints and sinners down the centuries have shown that an enduring strand of hope can be found in unexpected or even &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/lent-2016\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lent course 2016&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}