Ripon College Cuddesdon

Ripon College Cuddesdon A centre of Excellence in Theological Training and Research.
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We train men and women for ministry in the Church of England: stipendiary, non-stipendiary, local ordained and lay ministry. Through a wide range of flexible full-time and part-time programmes, we have courses to suit students at different stages of life, various personal circumstances and all kinds of academic abilities. Our strength comes from our commitment to the diversity of the church, and to the range of communities we are called to serve.

As part of our opening Themed Studies Week, students appreciated listening to speakers presenting online about the readi...
07/10/2026

As part of our opening Themed Studies Week, students appreciated listening to speakers presenting online about the reading of 'Scripture in Global Christianity' from three different continents: Africa, Asia, South America.

Our termly Lectio Divina practice has recommenced this week. Each week during term, we gather in Chapel when the Gospel ...
06/10/2026

Our termly Lectio Divina practice has recommenced this week. Each week during term, we gather in Chapel when the Gospel for the following Sunday is read.

Lectio Divina a simple form of sacred reading, using a short Bible passage, silent meditation, sharing, prayer and contemplation.

The Lectio Sheets are available on our website: https://www.rcc.ac.uk/about-us/lectio-divina

Principal's Intention for the Week:Our intention for the week is humility, following the Epistle and Gospel from Sunday ...
05/10/2026

Principal's Intention for the Week:
Our intention for the week is humility, following the Epistle and Gospel from Sunday (Philippians 2.1-13; Matthew 21.23-32); to be like Christ in emptying ourselves of all but love. Humility is a form of medicine, freeing us from the anxiety of competitiveness, and fears about what we might lose. Humility heals us. To take it in, we must be like the good earth, which receives the sun, the frost, the rain and the hail along with the rubbish and the spittle. Indeed, the word humility is related to the word humus; the decayed plant and animal matter in the soil, the ground from which we are made and to which we return.

The new academic year kicked off with a Themed Studies Week when, twice a year, a week is put aside for intensive, forma...
02/10/2026

The new academic year kicked off with a Themed Studies Week when, twice a year, a week is put aside for intensive, formational study in specialised areas.

This week Dr Victoria Omotoso (https://victoriaomotoso.com/) taught Black Theology with sessions titled Back to Black, Jesus and the Oppressed, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, Womanist Theology, From Civil Rights to Global Justice, and Towards Liberative Practice.

There was also a programme on Holy Scripture: Status, Interpretation, Use delivered by our in-house tutors with sessions on The Inspiration of Holy Scripture, The Church and Biblical Interpretation, Scripture and Prayer, Ethnicity and Christian Identity in Luke-Acts, and Scripture in Global Christianity.

We welcomed clergy this week for their last residential of the Incumbent Leadership Programme. The ILP trains clergy to ...
02/10/2026

We welcomed clergy this week for their last residential of the Incumbent Leadership Programme. The ILP trains clergy to develop their mission and ministry with children, young people and families.

This week we are focusing on working with teenagers and young adults, digital youth ministry, transitions and faith development, employing and supervising children and youth ministers.

Principal's Intention for the Week:This year the Season of Creation is focussing on the Living Water, the life giving wa...
28/09/2026

Principal's Intention for the Week:
This year the Season of Creation is focussing on the Living Water, the life giving water that flows from the Temple of God, in the vision in Ezekiel 47, out to all living things, bringing life and healing. We are invited by God to drink of this water and to step into this water and let its life-giving, healing properties do their work on us. At the start of our Cuddesdon year, across all of our Pathways, we see the people God has placed us in and amongst for these times, for the work of Living water to shape us. Here is a prayer from the Season of Creation resources; it is prayed to God our Mother:

Mother, today I sat inside the river and let the water name me, not with words, but with erosion, the slowest kind of touch. A pebble isn’t born smooth; it gets that way from staying. Once, I thought softness was a kind of failure. Now I know it is what remains after all the sharpness has been loved away. The current does not ask me to change; it asks me to stay and keep becoming.
(From Tendrils; Ecopoetics of community and justice published by Spiral House, 2026)

The opening of the Cuddesdon Chelmsford Centre was marked this Monday 21 September with a service of Holy Communion led ...
24/09/2026

The opening of the Cuddesdon Chelmsford Centre was marked this Monday 21 September with a service of Holy Communion led by The Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Chelmsford, with a sermon from the Centre's Director, Revd Dr Richard Wyld.

Staff, students, the Bishop's Leadership Team, the Diocesan Mission, Ministry and Education Team, and church communities from across the Diocese of Chelmsford joined the service in Chelmsford Cathedral to celebrate.

Photo: Diocese of Chelmsford

Tyndale to TikTok: The Bible’s Translation, Distribution, and ImpactThe Programme is now available for this 2-day confer...
22/09/2026

Tyndale to TikTok: The Bible’s Translation, Distribution, and Impact

The Programme is now available for this 2-day conference bringing together scholars, clergy and lay people to learn and reflect critically and imaginatively about the Bible.

An optional 3rd day offers a Tyndale-themed tour of Oxford followed by a Tyndale commemorative concert, Tyndale500 Event: Let there be Light, at Corpus Christi College.

Date: 28 - 29 October (optional 3rd day on 30 October)
Venue: Ripon College Cuddesdon, OX44 9EX
Booking: rcc.ac.uk/tyndale

People's Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature Crisis Join us at Cuddesdon for a special local film screening, fo...
21/09/2026

People's Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature Crisis

Join us at Cuddesdon for a special local film screening, followed by a discussion with experts from the Climate Psychology Alliance and Oxfordshire Climate Cafes:

📅 Thursday 22 October 2026, 7 – 9pm
📍 Cuddesdon, OX44 9EX
🎟️ Free to attend — booking required
📧 Book your place: [email protected]

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tLUnWHkGG4
More info: https://www.nebriefing.org

To mark the launch of our new Cuddesdon Chelmsford Centre, we will celebrate Holy Communion at Chelmsford Cathedral this...
18/09/2026

To mark the launch of our new Cuddesdon Chelmsford Centre, we will celebrate Holy Communion at Chelmsford Cathedral this Monday, 21st September at 6.15pm - all welcome.

This new Centre is the culmination of much planning and preparation, and marks the start of a new community of learning within our wider community of communities at Cuddesdon.

As we begin the new academic year and welcome our first students to the Cuddesdon Chelmsford Centre, we ask for your prayers for all those beginning their formation with us, and for our Centre staff, Richard Wyld and Rebecca Potter.

📸 Photo credit: Chelmsford Diocese

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