Shadow, hosted by Archdeacon Katherine with Prof Chris Cook
This Lent series invites us to explore discipleship amid uncertainty, mystery, and unknowing. Drawing on Scripture, lived experience and the wisdom of disability and suffering theologies, we reflect on following Christ not despite our struggles, but as we encounter God’s grace and guidance within them.
Inspired by Isaiah 45:3, each session helps us attend to the treasures hidden in darkness and the unexpected places where God reveals new riches, often beyond our usual ways of seeing or understanding.
This offering invites honesty about the realities of human life, while trusting that God is present and active within them, shaping us as disciples in ways we might not have anticipated.
Throughout the series, we use the language of darkness carefully, not as a moral category, but as a way of naming uncertainty, mystery, and the unseen places where God is also present.
Session Overview
Each session includes:
Online (1 hour)
- Welcome and opening liturgy
- Opening question
- Reflection by the guest speaker
- Conversation with the hosting bishop or archdeacon
- Embodied practice
- Notices and closing liturgy
In parish (30 minutes)
- Group Reflection