City Limits? The Promise of Boundaries for a Better Leeds

City Limits? The Promise of Boundaries for a Better Leeds It is the nature of city life to push limits. In one sense, a city is a town that has burst its limits and become something new. Globally we are seeing the rise of the city and the mega city as populations...

An Ode to the Motor Car

AN ODE TO THE MOTORCAR by Kemi Ilori In vain they tried to tire you with tax Your tyre rolled over their wits You made a kill of their Achille’s heel They need taxes for public services! In vain they raised the smoke Screen of pollution, their hole in the skies Their...

Saturday People, Sunday People

Tuesday 19th January, 2-4pm at Leeds Church Institute, 20 New Market Street, Leeds, LS1 6DG. LCI Perspectives event-as part of an outreach programme to other communities, Makor, the Jewish cultural centre, offers a talk titled ‘First the Saturday people, then...

Who Chose the Gospels?

Who Chose the Gospels? We asked the question in order to probe the ‘Great Gospel Conspiracy’.   There is a school of thought, which we see in popular culture by such things as the The Da Vinci Code but supported by some academics such as Elaine Pagels, William...