A lecture by Rev’d Canon Jarel Robinson-Brown at 5.30pm at St Mary's Priory, Abergavenny on Friday.
This lecture will explore the ways in which art, architecture and theology are intertwined - it will explore the ways in which stones speak of God in the communities where they are placed, and how flesh and spirit encounter the divine in and around religious spaces.
The lecturer will bring together ideas of sacrament, incarnation and justice in reflections around 'Buildings, Bodies and Spirit'.
The lecture is followed by drinks and finger food supper at St Mary’s.
There is also a Sung Vespers in the Church at 7pm.
Please select the ‘Friday evening lecture and finger food supper’ in the list below.
SPEAKER
Jarel Robinson Brown
Father Jarel Robinson-Brown is Vicar of St German’s Church, Adamsdown, Cardiff. He was prior to this Assistant Curate at St Botolph-without-Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minors in the City of London. He is Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury and Co-Chair of the LGBT+ Christian Charity OneBodyOneFaith. Jarel trained for ordination at Wesley House, Cambridge from 2010 – 2013 and served as Ordinand at Clare College, Cambridge. From 2013 – 2018 he served as Minister of St Andrew’s Methodist Church and Rumney Methodist Church in South Wales, then Minister of Trinity Methodist Church, Plumstead and Abbey Wood Methodist Church. From 2019 – 2021 he served as Associate Chaplain at King’s College London and in the Parish of Putney. In 2021 he was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon on the Feast of St Thomas and priest on the Feast of St Andrew. In September 2023, Archbishop Andrew John, Primate of Wales made Jarel Canon Preacher of St Deiniol’s Cathedral, Bangor. In November 2023 he was made MLK Fellow of Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford a post which he will hold for five years.