"Change is all there is: Evolutionary Theology" - The Very Revd Dr Jonathan Draper, Dean of Exeter
This paper is a thought experiment.
Can we use our understanding of evolution and genetics to understand why churches in different contexts and subject to different kinds of environmental pressures move in different theological directions?
I will argue that we can, and will suggest that diversity within the Christian 'species' is essential to its survival. About Jonathan Draper Jonathan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lived in the United States until he finished...
Come along to explore the fascinating and gruesome parts of history Travel back in time to a different period of history every week with themed crafts, costumes, and horrible history facts!
Each session takes place in the Pearson Education Centre between 10am and noon and children can be dropped off and left for the entire session.
STUPID STUARTS - 27th February: Try to survive the perilous times of the Stuart. Will you survive the Gunpowder Plot, the Plague and the Great Fire of London?? Create a collage to remember some of these scary events.
Come and join us for a day of Spring time shopping set within the beautiful medieval Nave of the Cathedral.
A great array of stalls selling a broad range of gifts and goodies will be there for your browsing and enjoyment. Get some friends together and make a day of it! Specialists from Bonhams (who are kindly sponsoring the event) will be on hand throughout the day offering a free valuation service, so bring along your pictures and other objects.
Bonhams Ticket information Tickets, which include entry to the Cathedral for the day, are priced at £7.50 per person or £10 to...
Exeter Cathedral has taken delivery of a set of Stations for the Cross which will remain in place as an exhibition for tourists and pilgrims until the end of March.
Via Crucis is a touring exhibition of 14 images. The panels use mixed media (including charcoal, metal leaf, ink and pastel) and are the work of multi-diciplinary artist Caroline Waterlow, herself based in the West Country. Where the traditional Stations emphasise the suffering path of Jesus, this installation follows the gospel accounts of Christ's Passion.
Ian Morter, Canon Pastor and Treasurer at Exeter...
The Education Department at Exeter Cathedral is gearing up for another busy school holiday, with plenty of half-term fun lined up for next week (Monday 15th February).
New for 2016 are special family-friendly tours of the Cathedral which will give children and adults alike an insight into howExeter’s best-loved landmark was built and some of the stories from its long history. February 2016 sees 500 years since the birthday of Mary I, so Tudor-themed crafts will also be on offer, alongside the opportunity to donate bricks to the Big LEGO® Build.
Via Crucis is a touring exhibition, made up of 14 new images for the Stations of the Cross.
The images are on paper and use mixed media, which includes charcoal, metal leaf, ink and pastel. They are the work of Caroline Waterlow, a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Westcountry. Where the traditional Stations emphasise the suffering path of Jesus, these new images follow the gospel accounts of Christ's Passion.
Caroline Waterlow's images are inspired both by Pope John Paul II's "Scriptural" Stations of the Cross and the objects and tools associated with the Passion in...
Members of the Exeter Bach Society (Musical Director: Simon Capet) will give a liturgical performance of J.S.Bach's Cantata 41 Jesu, nun sei gepreiset.
Thursday 25th February 2016 at 13.00 with Jan Freedman
Over the last 2 million years Devon has gone through enormous changes in climate.
This talk will look at museum collections in the South West and what they are able to tell us about our recent past.
Come along and discover how hippopotamus managed to live in Honiton. Discover how cave lions and sabre tooth cats lived not so far away, and how hyenas were the most abundant predator of the last Ice Age! Ticket Information £5 available from 01392 285983 and online.
Thursday 18th February 2016, 10.00-14.30 (Cathedral) Did you know: Mary Tudor was born 500 years ago on this date?
Come and take part in our Tudor crafts! Make a Tudor Rose collage, a gruesome be-headable puppet, or become a Tudor character by creating a portrait and making your own ruff.
Plus try on our costumes and have a go at writing with a quill! £1 per craft.
A new work for choir and orchestra inspired by a book of Saxon poetry is to be heard for the first time at Exeter Cathedral on March 12.
‘The Seafarer’ by Andrew Millington will be performed by The Exeter Philharmonic Choir in a special, sea-themed concert. Andrew was Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral from 1999 to 2015 and has been leading the choir since 2003. For the new work, his first for choir and orcestra, Andrew has used lines from the modern English translation of the 'Exeter Book' a Saxon text kept at the Cathedral, along with phrases from the Book of Psalms that...
