More details: www.thebigread.homecall.co.uk
What is "The Big Read"?
From Tweed to Tyne, and way down to south of the Tees, plans are underway to get church people from a wide variety of Christian denominations joining in a project called The Big Read.
The brainchild of the Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, The Big Read will see a series of talks happening in the area and a specially produced book launching in time for Lent next year.
This will be a chance for ordinary folk to get inside just one book of the Bible, the Gospel according to St Luke.
The Big Read aims to capitalise on the current fashion for book groups, offering the chance to discuss the text, dig behind the author’s aims and ideas, and consider differing interpretations and personal accounts of inspiration.
There are three ways into the Big Read...
individual reading of the SPCK booklets on Luke’s Gospel (short, daily readings version, or full Luke’s Gospel version)
in facilitated groups (during Lent 2010 or otherwise)
at larger gatherings between January and May when Bishop Tom Wright will speak on Luke’s Gospel (after Easter Bishop Tom will talk on the Acts of the Apostles)
More details: www.thebigread.homecall.co.uk