Jason Clark

Mark Roques

sounds amazing. I am meeting him later this month, and can’t wait to pick his brains, and learn from him. Mark s a storyteller who has spent many years in education. For eleven years he taught philosophy and religious studies at Prior Park College where he developed a unique Christian world view course that combined film, music, story telling and dramatic entertainment.

He is speaking in Leeds saturday 28th February, on “How can we communicate the gospel to a world that is tired and bored by religion? How can we re-enchant the world for secular minds sated by hedonism and consumerism?” Full info Mark gave me is in the extended session with contact info.

Telling stories: engaging the world

Saturday 28 February 2004
10.30 for 11.00 am to 4.00 pm
at Outwood House, Outwood Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4HR

How can we communicate the gospel to a world that is tired and bored by religion? How can we re-enchant the world for secular minds sated by hedonism and consumerism?

There will be two two-hour interactive sessions in which the speaker, Mark Roques, will use film-clips, debate and games to explore questions and themes such as: Why is story-telling so much fun? Why did Jesus tell stories? What were his stories about? The Kingdom of God’s cosmic scope which our stories need to reflect; Jewish parables; modern parables and concrete examples of story telling in teaching and assemblies.

There will also be time for informal conversation and the bookstall during the lunch hour.

Speaker

Mark Roques, a gifted communicator who brings the Gospel to hundreds of young people in a way that resonates with this generation. Having taught Philosophy and Religious Studies at Prior Park College, Bath, for many years, he is now a Resident Tutor for Thinking Space. He is the author of Curriculum Unmasked’, ‘The Good, The Bad and The Misled’, and ‘Fields of God: Football and the Kingdom of God’

E-mail k Mark for more info.