Pip Wilson bhp: 08/01/2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Michelle Garland

In this photo:Beautiful Human Person

Greenbelt 2010

Sunday Service

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: 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.

Greenbelt Festival / Shop & Talks / Talks

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Ten Years of Recorded Talks

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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.

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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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Really missing so many bhp's at Greenbelt

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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