The Lost Gospels

This coming Sunday, September 30, we'll have a look a a portion of a film made by Anglican clergy, Peter Owens Jones.
The film's title is "The Lost Gospels." We'll focus of the section that deals with the Gospel of Thomas. The film does an excellent job of explaining why this non-canonical work can be so powerful, and why it can be seen as so antithetical to modern, mainstream Christian theology. If you'd like a preview, the video and its blurb are given, below.
Please join us. We'll be delighted to see you. Loving childcare is provided.

Here's the video's link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9MfFewdTo

and the blurb:
Documentary presented by Anglican priest Pete Owen Jones which explores the huge number of ancient Christian texts that didn't make it into the New Testament. Shocking and challenging, these were works in which Jesus didn't die, took revenge on his enemies and kissed Mary Magdalene on the mouth - a Jesus unrecognisable from that found in the traditional books of the New Testament. 

Pete travels through Egypt and the former Roman Empire looking at the emerging evidence of a Christian world that's very different to the one we know, and discovers that aside from the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, there were over seventy gospels, acts, letters and apocalypses, all circulating in the early Church. 

Through these lost Gospels, Pete reconstructs the intense intellectual and political struggles for orthodoxy that was fought in the early centuries of Christianity, a battle involving different Christian sects, each convinced that their gospels were true and sacred.