ISC Men's Group

Monthly on the first Monday of the Month, September to June

Usually the first Monday unless there is a public holiday - see calendar below

Join a supportive group of men considering faith & life.

In person at the ISC (and online if required)

• Exchange ideas
• Look at areas of importance to you
• Enjoy good fellowship & social time

Each evening will consist of prayer/reflection, presentation on the theme, discussion and fellowship.

The group starts at 20:00 (UK Time) and will finish by 21:30

Theme details for the 2026-27 Session are listed below....some have still to be arranged

Suggested donation: Give what you can afford to help with the Centre's running costs.

Date

Theme

Facilitator

Comment

7 Sep

Food and Fellowship

Pete Smith

An evening of fellowship and food to start off our sessions together for this year

5 Oct

Spaces for Listening

to be decided

An evening of structured sharing - a space to share with each other how we are feeling about our life and experiences, and what we are thinking about - a space to feel listened to and heard.

2 Nov

Aye Aye, AI

Lee Brown  and Roger Coutu

A presentation and discussion on Pope Leo's "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical

7 Dec

Advent Evening

Facilitator to be decided

2027

11 Jan

"Mayflies" - discussion on book and TV dramatisation

Please note change of date

Joe Judge

Buy the book (by Andrew O'Hagan) here: https://amzn.to/4uciXk0 and perhaps read it over the Christmas and New Year break

(It was available on BBC iPlayer, but isn't anymore - if we find where it is being streamed we will post the information here)

1 Feb

Lent evening of reflection

Lewis Blair

Further details to follow

1 March

Watch an episode of The Chosen followed by discussion 

Paul Matheson

Pope Leo states that the parables “help us to rediscover hope, because they show us how God acts in history. While Jesus' parables are taken from everyday life, their goal is to convey something more profound. They encourage us all to raise questions within us. Where am I in this story? What does this image say to my life?”

Watching ‘The Chosen’ raises those same questions in us: Where am I in this story? What does this scene say to my life? 

5 April

An evening of Poetry and Prose

David Crossley

Further details to follow

10 May

Solvitur Ambulando: It Is Solved by Walking

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE

Mick Ashworth and David Buri

Saint Augustine wrote it down in De Genesi ad Litteram (c. 401 AD ): a debate about whether a moving body occupies one place or many as it goes: Ambulando solvitur ista quaestio, he writes - the question is solved by walking. For him we are viatores, beings who think by going, whose understanding sharpens only when it makes contact with the world. 

We will be walking around Garnethill this month and we look forward to another interesting evening together.

7 June

Pizza and planning IN HOUSE

Pete Smith

An evening of fellowship and food followed by some discussion to plan next session: Sep'27 - June'28 ......Let’s make pizza together - Pete will bring pizza dough and his pizza oven, the ISC will provide the toppings.  We’ll make the pizzas for the meal at the the ISC before we sit down to plan next year.

No pizza making skill required, plenty of us know the drill already and we’re ready to show you how to make your own pizza on the day.  

If you have an apron, please bring it!