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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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Creativity & Life

Creativity brings fresh, exciting and appropriate things into being. Connecting unexpected ideas or actions together in ways that surprise, delight or challenge. It may come as a flash of inspiration, or after years of reflection.

God is Creator; so our divine image means creativity is something we share. A biblical concept of creativity has wisdom at its core, a quality Jesus had in abundance. So how can we nurture a playful, healing, liberating, diverse and imaginative creativity?

To explore these ideas and questions, watch the short video, then read and download the free resources below: