St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - October 2018

St Mary Redcliffe
With Temple, Bristol & St John the Baptist, Bedminster
church wardens
Richard James: 0117-966 2291
Elizabeth Shanahan: 07808 505977
vergers
Vergers’ office: 0117-231 0061
Matthew Buckmaster, Head Verger
Andy Carruthers, Verger
Paul Thomas, Verger
director of music
Andrew Kirk: 0117-231 0065
assistant organists
Claire and Graham Alsop
vicar
Revd Dan Tyndall: 0117-231 0067
associate vicar
Revd Kat Campion-Spall: 0117-231 0070
associate minister
Revd Anthony Everitt: 0117-231 0060
associate clergy
Revd Canon Neville Boundy, Revd Peter Dill, Revd Canon John Rogan
operations manager
Peter Rignall: 0117-231 0073
admin executive
Evelyn Burton-Guyett: 0117-231 0064
admin associate
Pat Terry: 0117-231 0063
admin assistant
Noelle Gartlan: 0117-231 0063
the parish office
12 Colston Parade, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6RA
0117-231 0060
research assistant
Rhys Williams: 0117-231 0068
education officer
Sarah Yates: 0117-231 0072
community development worker
Rachel Varley: 0117-231 0071
community youth worker
David Cousins: 0117-231 0067
For more information about
the church visit www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
Any of the staff may be contacted at
parish.office@stmaryredcliffe.co.uk
vicar's letter
MY STUDY LEAVE split into three parts:
three weeks in China, eight weeks on
my own in France, and two weeks on
holiday in the foothills of the alps. The visit to
China, coinciding with our son who was studying
in Beijing for a year, was ‘the experience’;
the EMDL ended with our annual camping
holiday; and in France I was hoping to write
some hymns with contemporary theological
significance, of reasonable poetic quality and
(where I also wrote the tune) appealing musical
character which:
REFLECTING ON MY LEAVE
— REVD DAN TYNDALL
VICAR
— reflect the priestly role of proclaiming the gospel afresh in each generation;
— advance a traditional and progressive theology;
— give voice to our vision of “Singing the song of faith and justice.”
In working out how to engage with hymn writing, I read Timothy Dudley-
Smith’s book A functional art which he describes as ‘the personal reflections
of an experienced practitioner’. Full of anecdotes, and peppered with some
of his 400+ hymns, the book was a useful reminder of the purpose,
structure and form of hymnody. Along with this book, I also read Sam Wells
Learning to dream again; Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I’m no longer talking to white
people about race and Simon Armstrong Pearl. In response to this reading,
and seeking to address my desired outcomes, I :
— edited the two hymns I had written previously: Tenderness, Love & Grace
(sung to my own tune Ynys Enlli); Building on all that’s gone before (sung to the
tune Monkland, which we sang at our recent Patronal Festival service);
— wrote new words for four hymn tunes: The Light of Christ (Woodlands);
The Voices of Creation Raise (Church Triumphant); Sing the Song of Great
Thanksgiving (Carolyn); When our Hearts are Breaking (Noel Nouvelet).