On Saturday 7 June, the day before Pentecost, the Big Bookend Festival came to LCI. During the day, children came with parents and carers to hear authors tell their stories and recite poems in the story telling yurt, to attend workshops and to create their own...
In Matthew 19 we have a wonderful image of Jesus blessing the children, which is invaluable to families, church and communities. Through his action, Jesus teaches that we are called to be child friendly, to put children at the centre and to be a blessing to them. In...
At LCI we are keen to be a place which generates theological conversations that are relevant to life in Leeds. In conversations, we draw on Christian resources and biblical texts, different faiths and secular perspectives, our own experiences and the context of the...
David Rhodes, author of Faith in Dark Places had just that experience. He had started to volunteer at a PATH group for people without homes and in difficult circumstances. He envisaged himself bringing good news to the poor, and found it was working the other way...
When explaining how she approaches biblical texts, Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz referred to Abraham Joshua Heschel who taught that ‘The Bible is primarily not man’s vision of God but God’s vision of man.’ In this way, the text can be seen as God’s anthropology not our...
