A Quiet day of reflections and music, exploring +Guli new book “Listening to the Music of the Soul”

Through reflections and music, Bishop Guli will explore some of the themes from her new book, “Listening to the Music of the Soul” written for Advent 2025. As we prepare our hearts for the coming of Advent, during the day you will be encouraged to engage with the contradictions and paradoxes faith, embrace nuance over certainty and find meaning amidst the pain and darkness of your own experiences.

The Right Reverend Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani is Bishop of Chelmsford and a member of the Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords. She previously served as the first Bishop of Loughborough, in the Diocese of Leicester, from 2017 to 2021. Guli arrived in this country as a refugee from Iran, aged 14. She was educated at Nottingham and Bristol Universities, training for ministry at The South East Institute for Theological Education. Ordained priest in 1999, Guli served her title in the Diocese of Southwark and has also worked in London and Peterborough Dioceses. She has a doctorate in theology and cross cultural mission, is Chair of the Board of Church Army and the Church of England’s Lead Bishop for Housing. Guli has written extensively and, among other things, is the author of Cries for a Lost Homeland: Reflections on Jesus’ sayings from the cross and co-author, with Malcolm Guite, of Stations of the Resurrection: Encounters with the risen Christ.