Exile, diaspora, return and rebuilding
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Anvil LearningWorkshop
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Anvil TrustCentrepoint
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Anvil PodcastJesus-Shalom
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Anvil CommunityPeacemeal
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Workshop is the learning sphere of Anvil Trust. Creating safe yet brave spaces to explore a spirituality that inspires understanding, formation and activism from a Jesus-centred shalom. Value-focused, inclusive and empowering, it offers resources, courses and live video conversations.
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Anvil Trust is the centrepoint and legal foundation of a movement whose purpose is to articulate, advocate and advance an understanding and activism based on a Jesus-centred all-inclusive vision of shalom, through Workshop learning, Peacemeal community and Jesus-Shalom podcasts.
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Jesus-Shalom is the communication sphere of Anvil Trust using the mediums of podcast, blog and live video conversations and discussions. It explores provocative biblical and contemporary issues from shalom perspectives, plus regular interviews with ‘Shalom Activists’ working in diverse roles.
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Peacemeal is the community-building sphere of Anvil Trust. Inspired by the ‘table-fellowship’ of Jesus every meal can become a portal for nurturing relationship, developing community, spiritual encounter and radical social change. We are a catalyst to reveal and inspire radical table possibilities.
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06. Lightening and Tempest
Fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile
05. Thunder and Cyclone
Hebrew prophets until the destruction of Israel
04. Heights and Fissures
Rise of monarchy to division of the kingdom
03. Mountain and Plain
Settlement in the land and the era of the shophet
02. Wilderness and Hill Country
Founding families and the events of the Exodus
01. Primeval Skyline
Creation stories and the Genesis narratives
06. Spiritual Experience
Seeking clarity within sacred encounter
05.Problem of Evil
Objections to a belief in a God who is good
04. Existence of God
Arguments and reflections