Frequently Asked Questions
Here's a list of frequently asked questions. If we haven't answered your query then please just send us an email and we'll be happy to help.
St Cuthbert's cross
Is it free to join Disciples of the Divine Logos?
It is completely free to join our monthly online meetup Mead and Meaning (click here for subscription) which is where everything is happening right now. A key future element to our community are the in person events hosted in places of re-enchantment associated with saints, figures and legends still woven into our landscapes. We have a forum for community members which is in regular use. Join here.
St Hilda of Whitby
Is this a Christian group in the UK?
Yes! We're in the UK and we believe that Jesus Christ is the Divine Logos, the second person of the Trinity. Our community aims to dig much deeper into the role which story and myth can play within our own lives than what a Christian group might be expected to. Christ himself used story, we've simply forgotten how narrative applies to our own lives. There is a deep meaning crisis tearing through our society, and we're aiming to speak into this to alleviate the emptiness so many people feel. Neither Oliver or Ryan (the guys behind our project) grew up attending church or practicising the Christian faith. As such, we know that Disciples of the Divine Logos presents a unique way to approach the Christ story. Both Oliver and Ryan are traditionalist Anglo-Catholics in the Church of England - and we have Catholics, Orthodox and people exploring faith among our members. This community is not a church, nor a replacement to your local church and her sacraments. It's simply a community - set up for like-minded people.
I don't really go to church. Can I still join and come to your events?
Yes. Our meetups (currently online) are Christ focused but designed with a broad audience in mind. As you'd expect we're not going to hide the fact that we believe Christ is the centre of everything. Still - anyone who is interested in discovering how symbolism and story pertain to our own lives will benefit from this. We're aiming to base our in-person meetup days around a location connected with the ancient Christian narrative of Britain; stories from the so called 'Dark Ages' which inspired the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien. You'll experience live storytelling, a dose of history, legend, re-enchantment and food with like-minded people.
What's with these images of dragons and medieval people? Is this some kind of cosplay?
No. We host narrative sense-making days where we unpack ancients stories and mythic archetypes from within the Christian vision over an immersive day. No one dresses up, these images just help to paint a picture. Before the modern age people existed in a world where stories directly impacted their own lives and told one where to go next. An ammonite fossil was not a chunk of rock but a snakestone, informing one how evil can be overcome by the prayers of a man or woman filled with the Divine.
Stories of snakes or even dragons were not primarily seen as fiction, but were applicable to one's own experience of reality. This mythic structure has not been completely lost, not only is it everywhere in the movies we love, it's often still contained within the folk memory of figures like Saint Cuthbert or Saint Hilda, who lived and (if we dare to believe the stories) worked many wonderous deeds in still picturesque parts of England. We meet in these places to reopen that sense of wonder and enchantment.
st oswald, king and martyr
Where do you meet in person?
Our main gatherings are the monthly online Mead & Meaning sessions, open to everyone wherever they are. As our community grows, we’re introducing in-person meet ups.
Places close to us have included the coastal North East, lands still alive with the memory of saints and kings - but we hope in time to host events across the country.
The created world is not divine in itself, but it reflects divine order and beauty. In certain unspoilt landscapes - like Lindisfarne, and the hills and moors of Northumberland and Yorkshire, that reflection seems especially clear: places imprinted with the memory of saints, where the natural and the spiritual meet, and where the wind seems to carry the memory of the saints who came before us. Escaping the city can be a tonic, a glimpse back into Eden.
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