Find out more about this panel here: https://faithandliterature.hymnsam.co.uk/programme/saturday-1-march-2025/event-14-whose-truth-universally-acknowledged/

and more about the whole event here: https://faithandliterature.hymnsam.co.uk/2025-festival/

As quipped by the narrator of ‘Pride and Prejudice’, it was self-evident that, ‘a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife’. As a fish can’t see water, so we cannot perceive many things about the values that imbue our social context. This is true also of our understandings of God.
Those on the underside of power and privilege are able to show the workings of our social systems to those who inhabit the ‘normal’ and the normative. And if they are artists, they can make these things visible in a powerful way by touching truths that are so deep as to be common to all human experience – love, loss, and the divine.
In this panel three guests will explore beautiful truths about God, human beings, and how we inhabit our planet. We will explore the power and potential of story-telling, poetry and the visual arts to surprise, challenge and enrich us. How can we connect with ‘Truth’? What is ‘universal’? And what happens when we ‘acknowledge’ and articulate it?

Contributors:
Chair: Alison Webster (General Secretary, Modern Church)
Stories: Natalie Collins
Poetry: Rev Mark Pryce
Visual art: Eddy Aigbe