23rd Annual Day of Prayer Transfiguration
29 January 2011 at 10:00 am
A day of reflection
The day was to have been led by The Right Reverend Dr Kenneth Stevenson former Bishop of Portsmouth, who died on 12 January 2011 after a long illness. He had fully prepared the addresses, which were read by The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr John Hall.
Kenneth Stevenson was born in 1949, and was ordained in Lincoln Cathedral in 1973, serving Curacies in Lincolnshire, before becoming Chaplain at Manchester University in 1980. From there, he went to Guildford as Rector in 1986, before becoming Bishop of Portsmouth nine years later. He took early retirement in 2009, after a long fight with leukaemia. He was married to Sarah, and they had four children. His hobbies included music, biographies, and Denmark. Through both parents he had many Lutheran clerical forebears - and he was involved in Anglo-Nordic relations at various levels. He wrote a number of books on liturgy, historical theology and spirituality, including ‘Rooted in Detachment: Living the Transfiguration’ (2007), and co-edited with Geoffrey Rowell and Rowan Williams ‘Love’s Redeeming Work: The Anglican Search for Holiness’ (2001). He died on 12 January 2011.
See also:
The Right Reverend Dr Kenneth Stevenson's addresses:
Introduction to Transfiguring Prayer Talks (PDF, 86KB)
Day of Prayer Talk 1 - Occasions for Prayer (PDF, 61KB)
Day of Prayer Talk 2 - Prayer and the Unknown Future (PDF, 66KB)
Day of Prayer Talk 3 - Beholding glory (PDF, 61KB)