Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Michelle Garland

Sunday Service
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Pip Wilson

Pip Wilson is a Beautiful Human Person who became an Adult when he was 40.

Growth does not reside in a place called comfortable

Catalogue No GB09-91

2009: Standing in the Long Now

Spiritual Literacy and Emotional Literacy holding hands. Managing emotions. Dealing with put downs, aggression, bullying, difficult behaviour and relationships. How our emotions can be both disabling and a powerful energiser. How possible is it to be developing spiritual humans and emotionally competent in relationships in the workplace, family, church. Understanding Emotional Literacy and application to real life.

CD £3.00 / MP3 £2.00

GREENBELT FESTIVAL PAST AND PRESENT



Joanna Jepson

Joanna Jepson: A Lot Like Eve

How did a woman – known as “chipmunk” by her cruel schoolmates when she was a teenager – become chaplain to the London College of Fashion, the glamorous poster-girl for C of E, and the author of a book exploring body-image? And why does a self-confessed feminist challenge abortion policy and practice?
The story involves: facing the torment of her peers; reconstructive surgery; the rejection of her childhood ideas of God; living with a brother with Down Syndrome; and becoming a priest.
Born with a cleft palate, by the age of 17 Joanna Jepson had a face that “literally didn’t fit” – her upper and lower jaws wouldn’t meet properly. At school she was called “can-opener”, “wood-chipper”, among other things. A letter slipped inside her Bible at a church youth-group read: “You are so ugly. Why don’t you just kill yourself?”
Growing up in a strict, evangelical church and household, she wasn’t convinced the frightening God she’d grown up with was on her side either. “I think the God I was afraid of then was the God who was always beyond pleasing, and beyond reach,” she told the Church Times.
In her memoir “A Lot Like Eve”, published by Bloomsbury, she says she felt she was rejected, “in exile from Eden”. Worn down by the cruelty of others she considered surgery, but she was afraid to pray about it. She feared that God would say “No,” feeling that he “wanted me to be something I wasn’t.”
At the age of 19, Joanna had surgery to push back her upper jaw and reshape her lower jaw into a proper chin. After a year spent recovering, she cut her hair and came out of hiding.
With new-found confidence, she gradually discovered a gentler, less dogmatic faith in a more intimate, loving God – leading her to study theology and train for the Anglican priesthood. Her physical and spiritual transformation also gave her the courage to stand up for others. 
In 2003, as a young curate, she made headlines for winning a judicial review into a case where a 28-week old unborn child with a cleft palate had been aborted. Today, her concern is particularly about the abortion of those with Down Syndrome: currently, 92 per cent of women who receive an antenatal diagnosis decide to terminate the pregnancy. 
Her brother Alistair has Down syndrome, and she calls him her inspiration, “a vision of life lived out in the light, nowhere near the cover of a fig tree.” Her stance on this issue has divided opinion, and she has received comments as vitriolic as when she was at school. And hen she was appointed as the first chaplain of the London College of Fashion, in 2006, there were sneering headlines, this time, ironically, because she was so good looking.
Now 39, and the mother of a two-year-old, she is no knee jerk pro-lifer – she is not against abortion per se. But she does believe there should be more public debate: “The more common abortion for disability becomes, the more acceptable it becomes, and that leaves us with a very troubling hypocrisy,” she says. “We can’t channel vast energy into equal opportunities and diversity agendas and then turn round and offer terminations to any woman who is suspected of carrying a baby with an abnormality.”
Joanna Jepson may feel that she’s a lot like Eve, but she’s not about to go into hiding. You’ll find her happily open to question on a platform in Boughton Park this August.



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Ten Years of Recorded Talks

If you need a bit of guidance on what’s hot, you can now scroll through the fifty most popular talks or alternatively, you can browse through talks from this year's festival, browse through different subjects or find your favourite speaker.
Costs are as follows:
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Take a look around... your soul will thank you.
Greenbelt Festival / Shop + Talks / Talks / By Speaker / Pip Wilson Level Fivers

Pip Wilson Level Fivers

Taking Friendship to a whole new level

Catalogue No GB05-90

2005: Tree Of Life

The Level 5 tool, and how you could maybe use it at work, with groups or in personal relationships.

CD £3.00 / MP3 £2.00

Preview




TWO WISE MEN

David Pendle and Mark Yaconelli reading my new book - I hope you have one too?


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Monday, August 30, 2010

Latest news from home about Zig he has been sick for the last two nights but had a more normal day today. Beautiful non-human




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Think about this you beautiful human .........




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Hey! Just checked out your blog and photos on facebook....
Oh Pip, it's harder this year than before I attended GB because I can picture you all in the hotel lounge and out in the middle of the festival grounds. As I was driving from Quebec to New Brunswick this morning, heading home I kept wondering about the Sunday worship and picturing you there asking people questions about when they first kissed etc!
Next year.........I hope, I hope.
From Dana. In Canada



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Hanging out withe the Gil Scott-Heron band. The night is still young at 2.30am






















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Saturday, August 28, 2010

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Zig our beautiful non human was kept in the cat hospital overnight with a high temperature. He was placed on a drip and a course anti biotics. He was delivered home this afternoon on a strict medication routine. So Joan will not be able to come to Greenbelt. I am missing her and loads of humans asking after her. But Zig has survived. So pleased!!




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Greenbelt welcome for the pot of gold. All the humans adding. All the Divine as an extra










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David Pendle is here at Greenbelt working with Tracy to deliver the food and drink, the best prices, for thousands. Penggle, as I call him, has been doing this hard graft got years. Just a pint or two late night as a reward. One of the thousands of volunteers here. Pulling the festival together. I am one too.










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Tracy is at Greenbelt. Not seen her for a whole year. She looks good. Sounds good and up for the edging challenge of shaking down 40 volunteer young humans from several YMCA hostels who will be working the Greenbelt YMCA Cafe night and day. 24 hour cafe with 21000 potential customers If you are here. Call in and experience the youthful energetic vibe and add to the the love.










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Thursday, August 26, 2010

I have been in emotional conflict. A rare treat to have all three Sheilas at Wilson Mansions, Joy Ann and Connie. At the same time I have taken our beautiful human Zig to the vet. Yesterday and today. The have kept him to run blood tests. He is really unwell. Now I am mid journey to Greenbelt with these emotions + Greenbelt. Joan is coming Saturday to Tuesday but now it depends on Zig's health !




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Greenbelt Festival

Ready to go start breathe love it love it

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