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Starting Advent, Adventurously 

A number of Baptists have teamed up with Greenbelt to organise an exciting one-day festival in December

 
Starting Advent adventurously
Looking through the prisms of faith, ecology and the economy, Adventurous combines artistry, the spoken word and live music to look at where we are now, and how we might imagine a better future.

The event was initiated by Baptist minister Juliet Kilpin of Urban Expression, who drew in the likes of Peter Dominey and Barney Barron of Incarnate, the Baptist church planting network, and Matt and Juls Hollidge of the creative agency Kore, in the planning.

A varied line-up includes Mike Frost, an Australian Baptist missiologist, whose work focuses on enabling people to embrace a theology of risk and adventure; Abdul Rehman Mailk a London-based journalist, educator and organiser; Ann Morrisy, a freelance community theologian and Ann Pettifor, an economist and financial commenter who spearheaded the Jubilee Debt Campaign. Poet Harry Baker will be there, while Hope and Social and Iain Archer provide the music.

It takes place on December 1 at Union Chapel - a working church that houses a centre which supports those facing homelessness, and which is also an award-winning venue in Islington.

Alongside Union Chapel, Greenbelt is hosting the day - and like that festival of arts, faith and justice, Adventurous is underpinned by a Christian faith, without being an overtly Christian event.

As such, it is hoped there will be a good mix of Christians and those who do not profess a faith.

'A lot of what we (as Christians) talk about, people outside the church are equally passionate about: sorting out the economic mess, justice issues, our future,' said Juliet.

'I'm hoping this event can bring people together of faith and non-faith, and have a dialogue.

'I really hope people will be given the courage to imagine a better future. I hope they come prepared to think out of the box, prepared to engage with people who think differently.

'There will be differences of opinion expressed - but through dialogue we can stretch our thinking - and re-imagine a better future.'

Adventurous takes place on December 1.
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