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With a residential community at its core, Cuddesdon has grown to offer a broad range of full-time & part-time pathways & programmes to meet the needs of people with different circumstances, stages of life, & academic experience. #CofEpeeps #TEI #vocations
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This time 10 years ago Bishop Rachel was announced as the Bishop of Gloucester, the first female diocesan bishop and the first female bishop in the @houseoflords.parliament.uk 🎉👏 We are very lucky in @glosdioc.bsky.social 🙏

This is a reminder that there is a Zoom session this evening from 7.30-8.30pm with our Admissions Tutor, Dr Rebecca Dean, to hear about our different pathways and academic programmes. To join the session, please request the Zoom invite at [email protected].

If you are in the first few years of being a first time incumbent, we are running a two-night retreat exploring the transition from curacy and offering a space for you to share your experiences, 15-17 October. Details and booking at rcc.ac.uk/short-course...

It’s officially spring at Ripon College Cuddesdon when the students come outside for morning tea break

Eleanor McLaughlin: Bonhoeffer’s Unconscious Christianity: Engaging with a World Come of Age

Many congratulations to Catherine Cowie and Oliver Blease, two former students, who graduated MA in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on a sunny St David’s Day.

From September, Cuddesdon will be offering three new part-time courses in mission and ministry with children, young people and families over one, two or three years. Please register an interest now to be invited to an online open evening coming soon at www.rcc.ac.uk/cypf

📣 College Chaplains 📣 join us for Resourcing College Chaplains for Science and Theology Engagement Course by @riponcuddesdon.bsky.social comprises six virtual sessions and (an optional) one day in-person workshop 23 April to 18 June 2025 Find out more & register at www.rcc.ac.uk/collegechapl...

Just had a great meeting with our @BIAPTheology conference team. Check out our call for papers &book yourself in for the conference! 1st-timers, regulars & returners all welcome! Keynotes on Children’s Spirituality, Millennials & Faith in later life plus Jay Hulme as conference poet! www.biapt.org

A great start to our new Incumbent Development Pathway today. We’re working with the national Ministry Development Team to equip current incumbents in working with children, young people and families.

On this feast of Thomas Aquinas, a reminder of our Academic Dean Oliver Keenan’s recent book. Aquinas' era was defined by conflict and divisive politics, much like our own - his unfailing belief in the power of communication to overcome alienation and despair is an important lesson for us all.

Any #CofEpeeps out there exploring a vocation? Get in touch with us.

This week we welcome our first cohort of clergy on the pilot of the national Incumbent Development Programme to help clergy improve their work with children, young people and families. Please pray for them & for our Tutor in Children’s Youth & Families Ministry Canon Dr Pete White as he leads it.

Today we welcome prospective students to our Open Day. Our Ludlow Lead Tutor the Revd Dr Alison Walker will be presiding at our Eucharist and other staff & students will be on hand to give tours, answer questions and share their experiences of our community of pathways.

Today we welcome prospective students to our Open Day. Our Ludlow Lead Tutor the Revd Dr Alison Walker will be presiding at our Eucharist and other staff & students will be on hand to give tours, answer questions and share their experiences of our community of pathways.

Today students on our part-time pathways at our Ludlow, Gloucester and Cuddesdon centres and our pioneer ordinands from CMS arrive for one of a series of weekends on worship and preaching. We pray for safe travels for all of them in the stormy weather.

Watch Dr Victoria Turner, our Mission and Pastoral Studies tutor, talk about her new book - Awake, Emerging and Connected: Meditations on Justice from a Missing Generation - on her publisher's website at scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/.../awake-em....

Places are still available on our OPEN DAY on Saturday, 25th January for those exploring full-time, context-based or part-time ordination training at the Cuddesdon site. Hear about training options, chat with students and share worship. Book a place at www.rcc.ac.uk/get-in-touch...

Our VESTMENT FAIR is taking place on Tuesday, 11th February at Cuddesdon from 1-6pm with a great range of suppliers attending. It is open to all and everyone is most welcome to come.

We're delighted to partner with The School of Contemplative Life to offer a 5-day meditation retreat from 15-19 Sept 2025. The focus is silent meditation practice & bringing loving-awareness to all our daily activities Details at www.rcc.ac.uk/short-course... #schoolofcontemplativelife