Nov 30, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
Our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence, Hannah Stone, considers the start of Advent and shares her Christmas carol to ‘stir up’ our advent reflections. As we’re now in Advent, I’ve just missed the correct time to write about Stir Up Sunday, where secular...
Nov 23, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
At this dark time of year, half way through the second lockdown, we need some ‘light at the end of the tunnel;’ what a ‘light’ the news of a vaccine is! Coincidentally, many world religions celebrate festivals of light round now. For Hindus, the celebrations of Diwali...
Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorised
Leeds Citizens and Leeds Church Institute work together to employ a local Community Organiser, Becky Howcroft. In her latest theological reflection, Becky considers how tension is something that we have to learn how to use in an effective way, something that we need...
Nov 16, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
At this time of year we call to mind the departed, especially those who died in warfare, and normally we’d see people out and about wearing poppies, both the red ones associated with the poignant flowering on Flanders fields, and also white ones encouraged by Quakers...
Nov 9, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
Hannah Stone, our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence, considers how, as we enter another national lockdown, prisons can be metaphorical and shares a poem that reflects on the experience of a friend emerging from a long period of depression. I write on the day...
Nov 2, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
Thinking again about refugees, I’m very struck by the portrayal of the Mediterranean sea on the cover of the booklet, Refugee Realities in Church Art (it’s from the St Nicholas window in Christ Church, Upper Armley).The sun is glinting on it, and the waves look like...
Oct 26, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
This week our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence, Hannah Stone, considers how the imagery of storms can convey many difficult emotions and upheavals and, with Leeds Church Institute’s recent exhibition ‘Asylum in Art’ in mind, shares a moving poem...
Oct 19, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
Hannah Stone writes “In the last couple of weeks, LCI has provided some marvellous opportunities to engage with creative responses to the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers, first through a zoom launch of the Refugee Realities in Church Art pamphlet (an...
