Lent 2008
About the Lent Blog
Each week during Lent 08 a different author will be offering a posting to help us reflect on the meaning of Lent. Here’s a bit more info about our contributors.
Mark Roques is a great storyteller who has spent many years in education. For eleven years he taught Philosophy & Religious Studies at Prior Park College where he developed a unique Christian worldview course that combined film, music, story-telling and subversive role plays. He is passionate about salt-water crocodiles, philosophy and football. He is a tutor for the West Yorkshire School of Christian Studies. He lives in Leeds with his wife Anne, daughter Hannah and son Emile. See more of what Rocky gets up to on his website
Jon Birch is a musician, illustrator and animator and the creative force behind the unfeasibly popular ASBOJesus blog. He lives in Bath with his wife Clare Birch, who is a part-time writer and full-time malcontent.
Sonia Mainstone-Cotton is an early years specialist and consultant. A founder member of Sanctuary and the driving force behind our presence at Greenbelt, she lives in Bath with husband Iain and daughters Lily and Summer.
Su Bowman is a receptionist, counsellor and artist. Su writes: ‘I’ve found myself becoming more and more passionate about counselling. It’s been powerful for me to find the details and stories of life giving me new insight into my faith, and it’s reassuring to find my faith growing as a result of studying secular counselling. Am very much planning to find time to make art again. Tim and my friends are important to me, as is Sanctuary, FOTK and Iona.’
John Nugent is a minister with the Baptist Union of Scotland who is happy to embrace the questions and welcomes diversity and inclusiveness. A former member of the BBC’s Scottish Religious Advisory Committee and a member of The Iona Community, John says: ‘I am concerned about human rights here in Scotland and in foreign parts (like England). I recently spent six months working for The Iona Community at their Camas Outdoor Centre on the Ross of Mull as programme worker. A reluctant vegetarian I now know how to do interesting things with chick peas, lentils and tvp. My favourite writers are Dietrich Bonhoefer, Gustavo Guttierez, Jon Sobrino, Ian Fraser, Matt McGinn and Stephen Fry. I love traditional celtic music and bursting balloons.’
