Bread of Hope

In this series, we’ll be exploring what Jesus does for us (atonement) and how the church has shared this (mission).

In this fourth session, we’ll reflect on framing the atonement in terms of penal substitution (ie. Jesus substitutes himself to pay the penalty for our wrongdoing).

The Ministry of Justice (London: Bread of Hope, 2025).

We'll structure our time as follows:
• For the first 15 minutes we'll catch up, then pray for one another's work. (There's no obligation to pray out loud.)
• For the next 60 minutes, we will discuss and reflect.
• We sometimes close with a time of lectio divina: https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/253799/1-What-is-Lectio-Divina.pdf.

Please email contact@breadofhope.org.uk if you would like to join us via Zoom.

In this series, we’ll be exploring what Jesus does for us (atonement) and how the church has shared this (mission).

In this fifth session, we’ll reflect on framing the atonement as a divine example to follow.

St Anger (London: Bread of Hope, 2020).

We'll structure our time as follows:
• For the first 15 minutes we'll catch up, then pray for one another's work. (There's no obligation to pray out loud.)
• For the next 60 minutes, we will discuss and reflect.
• We sometimes close with a time of lectio divina: https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/253799/1-What-is-Lectio-Divina.pdf.

Please email contact@breadofhope.org.uk if you would like to join us via Zoom.

In this series, we’ll be exploring what Jesus does for us (atonement) and how the church has shared this (mission).

In this sixth session, we’ll reflect on Jesus’ victory over death.

Bread of Hope (London: Bread of Hope, 2020).

We'll structure our time as follows:
• For the first 15 minutes we'll catch up, then pray for one another's work. (There's no obligation to pray out loud.)
• For the next 60 minutes, we will discuss and reflect.
• We sometimes close with a time of lectio divina: https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/253799/1-What-is-Lectio-Divina.pdf.

Please email contact@breadofhope.org.uk if you would like to join us via Zoom.

In this series, we’ll be exploring what Jesus does for us (atonement) and how the church has shared this (mission).

In this seventh session, we’ll consider better and worse ways of framing penal substitution (the view that Jesus substitutes himself to pay the penalty for our wrongdoing).

Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton, ‘This is My Beloved Son, Whom I hate? A Critique of the Christus Odium Variant of Penal Substitution’ in Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies 3.2 (2018), 271–186.

We'll structure our time as follows:
• For the first 15 minutes we'll catch up, then pray for one another's work. (There's no obligation to pray out loud.)
• For the next 60 minutes, we will discuss and reflect.
• We sometimes close with a time of lectio divina: https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/253799/1-What-is-Lectio-Divina.pdf.

Please email contact@breadofhope.org.uk if you would like to join us via Zoom.