Assisted Dying legislation and Christian ethics
A presentation and open conversation on Assisted Dying legislation and Christian ethics. This is a Resoucrcing Faith annex event — a similar format to our Resourcing Faith conversations, but free.
The conversation will begin with a presentation by PhD candidate George Palmer. Small group and conversations will be supported to ensure a safe, pastoral environment for all.
St Bene't's is wheelchair accessible.
Tickets available at eventbrite
Embrace the Middle East
Save the Date: Sunday Supplement with Embrace The Middle East.
Make a note in your diaries for an informative and interesting discussion after the 10am service.
A representative from the charity Embrace will talk about Gaza, the West Bank and other Middle Eastern areas. Further details to follow.
Lunchtime concert
Reflections’ is a 45-minute lunchtime concert programme devised and performed by bassoonist Laurence Perkins, who is regularly featured on Classic FM, BBC Radio 3 and worldwide radio stations.
Admission is free, and donations will be invited for UK-Med and Music Action International - two registered charities who are providing vital medical and therapy support work with survivors from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
For more information and a 2-minute sampler video —>
Parish retreat - Launde Abbey
Advance notice that we have booked Launde Abbey for a Parish Retreat from the afternoon of Friday 5 to lunchtime on Sunday 7 September 2025.
Further details and booking information will be available from around February next year.
If you are interested, please put the dates in your diaries and let Philippa know
Study morning - the many faces of Christianism
Join us for the first Resourcing Faith study day of the academic year, hosted jointly by St Bene't's Church and Little St Mary's, Cambridge - The Many Faces of Christianism: From the 'Russian World' to the Challenge of Illiberalism in Contemporary Democracies
Can Christianity be reclaimed from populism?
Dr Mariëtta van der Tol, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity, will explore questions of politics, populism, Christian nationalism, religious plurality, and the future of democracy.
Specialising in the comparative study of politics, law and religion, she leads the interdisciplinary networks ‘Religion, ethnicity and politics in German, Dutch and Anglo-American contexts: nationalism and the future of democracy’ and ‘Protestant political thought: religion, state, nation’.
Her book Constitutional Intolerance: the fashioning of 'the other' in Europe's constitutional repertoires (2024) appears in the CUP series comparative constitutional law and policy.
Tickets are £5 and available from https://resourcingfaith12oct.eventbrite.co.uk/
(please enquire directly if you require a free ticket)
Coffee is available from 10am
Church cleanup
Church cleanup morning
All are welcome - dusting, de-cobwebbing, clearing rubbish out of churchyard..also making coffee.
Patronal Festival and Parish Lunch
Following the 10am Eucharist, lunch in the Fellows' Garden at Corpus Christi College.
Sign-up sheet with choice of food, £11 each, children £5.
We will also say thankyou to James Gardom as this is his last Sunday with us as Interim Priest-in-Charge
20s & 30s - Midsummer Meal
Location TBC
email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
St Bene’t’s to St Alban’s Walk
Rob Cumming
I am planning to walk with anyone who would like to join me from St Bene't's to St Alban's Abbey during the week leading up to the Alban Pilgrimage on Saturday 22nd June. This is approximately 65 miles making for 5 days of an average 13 miles a day. The route lends itself to a combination of overnight stays and day walks utilising the railway line between Cambridge and London. Anyone is welcome for the whole route or days of their choosing and there are some shorter sections that are suitable for those who are less mobile or prefer a shorter walk to join.
Pilgrimage is an ancient Christian tradition and many have found walking together draws us closer to one another and to God. In the time after Anna's death and burial at St Alban's I was drawn to this concept as a challenging way for us to collectively strengthen our bond as a congregation, and a chance to pay our respects together for those who would like to do so.
Please sign up if you are interested, either on the online form or the sign-up sheets at the back of church or by emailing myself . I am also happy to hear from anyone with questions or suggestions ahead of the walk.
The ininerary is described here and a full set of maps are listed here.
Study morning at Little St Mary's
Study Morning is at LSM start with coffee from 10am)
There will be two talks on a theme of The World Church and Western Anxiety.
James Gardom will give the first talk: Why are there so many non-UK heritage churches in Cambridge?
Dr Jörg Haustein from the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity will give the second talk: Christianity and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda.
Tickets are £5 each and here is the Eventbrite link
Find some previous Study Day videos on our Resources page.
20s & 30s - Walk to Grantchester
Meet at St Bene’t’s
email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
Visit to two churches in The Fens
Organised with the Social Committee, this will be a visit to two churches in The Fens
with lunch at Philippa and Michael Pearson's house in Christchurch, Cambridgeshire.
Details on church visits TBA
20s & 30s - Ice Cream Picnic
Meet at St Bene’t’s
email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
20s & 30s - Board game night
Board game social at St Bene’t’s.
New members are always welcome: email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
20s & 30s - Kindness
New members are always welcome: email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
Bath House meet-up
A chance for a chat and refreshments after coffee at church. from 11.30am,.
Meeting on the last Sunday of the month,
20s & 30s - Patience - Pancake Social
New members are always welcome: email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
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Visit to Pembroke College with James Gardom
I will be showing people the chapel (Christopher Wren's first building) the cloister, and, weather permitting, the College Gardens. Pembroke is the oldest college still on its original site, and the third oldest college in the University. It has beautiful gardens on an attractively open site.
The chapel is the first classical building in Cambridge, and established Wren's credentials as a first class modern architect when it was consecrated in 1665.
The timing was very strategic – many architectural opportunities emerged after the great fire of London, culminating in the building of St Paul's Cathedral.
I will meet people from St Bene't's at the porters Lodge on Trumpington Road at 2 PM.
20s & 30s - Goodness
New members are always welcome: email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
20s & 30s - Charity Bake Sale Fundraiser for Kyangala Trust
Fundraiser at St Bene’t’s.
New members are always welcome: email 20sand30s@stbenetschurch.org for more info.
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Study Morning: Apocalypse and Politics with Dr Elizabeth Phillips
Drawing on her most recent book, “Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics”, Dr Elizabeth Phillips, Director of Education and Engagement at the Woolf Institute, will lead a morning of conversations about the meaning of 'apocalypse', its relevance to politics, and how these questions might help us in our preparations for Lent as well as in facing the uncertainties of the many crises in the world today.
Coffee is available from 10am, tickets are £5.00.
Eventbrite link for tickets @£5 here
20s & 30s - Mini Golf Social
Join us for a Mini Golf Social at The Tivoli.
New members are always welcome.
Bath House meet-up
A chance for a chat and refreshments after coffee at church. from 11.30am,.
Meeting on the last Sunday of the month,
Candlemas - joint service with Corpus Christi College
On the feast of Candlemas (the day on which Jesus is acclaimed as the Light of the World),
the 10am service will start at Corpus Chapel for the blessing of candles
and we will then process to St Bene’t’s for the remainder of the service.
All are very welcome.
Parish Quiz
Takes place in church with quizmasters Andrew and Nicholas Kennedy.
Sign-up details coming soon but perhaps you would like to invite people you know, and people that you don’t know to make up a team of up to six.
Young People's Group
A group for young people aged 10-18 to explore and deepen faith, meeting during the 10am Eucharist.
Download current termcard here
Advent Reading Group
The Advent Reading Group are meeting weekly by Zoom up to and including 20 December, from 5-6pm on Wednesdays.
We are reading and discussing Rowan Williams' Silence and Honey Cakes, which is an exploration of the spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
The Zoom link is: click here
Advent Reading Group
The Advent Reading Group are meeting weekly by Zoom up to and including 20 December, from 5-6pm on Wednesdays.
We are reading and discussing Rowan Williams' Silence and Honey Cakes, which is an exploration of the spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
The Zoom link is: click here