On October 26 1963, a revolutionary-minded twenty-two year old Bob Dylan mounted the Carnegie Hall Stage for the second time in his life, guitar and harmonica in hand. The pre-show hubbub is replaced by applause as he approaches the mic, looks beyond the lights, and begins to strum.
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'
It’s been sixty-two years since Dylan first performed The Times They Are A-Changin’ on that night in New York City. Since then, this world has seen an awful lot of change. As a church, it often seems we’ve either forgotten Dylan’s prophetic call, or never believed it applied to us.
In this year’s forum, Andrew Stephens-Rennie (who was decidedly not at that 1963 concert) will lead us in a day of exploration and discovery of these changing times, leaning on scripture, music, and art, that we might understand the world as it is, and set our feet forward on a path of faithfulness, imagination, and bravery, as we (and those who come after us) step into God’s emerging future.
Date & Location
Saturday October 4, 2025 | 9.00am - 3.00pm
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Syilx peoples, and can be found at 1370 Church Street in Penticton, BC
Registration
For further information, or to pre-register
email: orlc@shaw.ca or
call 250-492-6861
Accessibility
The church has an accessible rear entrance.
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