06/02/2026
Get ready for Idyllwild! Meet one of the teachers for 2026, Brother Martyn Lawrence, from Cleckheaton, UK.
“Deb and I have lived in the north of England for over twenty years, and we are members at Cleckheaton, a small ecclesia in West Yorkshire. As the crow flies, that’s almost exactly midway between London and Edinburgh. We have two boys, Josh and Ezra. My background is in history, and I currently manage the publishing programme for the UK’s oldest museum - a job that involves regular visits to the Tower of London.
The Way of the Sea is our class theme for the week. In these sessions, we’ll explore the exodus metaphor woven throughout Scripture. We'll see how the whole Bible - from Genesis through the conquest and the monarchy to the gospels and letters - calls back and forth to these familiar events through moments of departure and return, exile and homecoming, judgment and salvation. Scripture is one story from beginning to end, and it is exodus-shaped.
As we hear these exodus symphonies, we’ll be reminded that Israel’s salvation (and failure) is ours too; that if we love anything more than God, then we are still in Egypt; and that today’s key issues of freedom, citizenship, identity and power speak directly to all those led by the way of the sea."
