Belonging

Belonging

Our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence, Hannah Stone, is considering three words commonly used to shape or define religious faith and community – believing, belonging and behaving.  This week, Hannah focuses on the second of these words – belonging –  and...
How the Church could end the waiting list for a kidney

How the Church could end the waiting list for a kidney

Joe Walsh, elder at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Leeds, shares his story of donating a kidney as an outworking of his Christian faith and the example of Jesus. Joe has just launched Faith in Operation, a website aimed at encouraging Christians to consider altruistic...
Believing

Believing

Our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence, Hannah Stone, considers how language is used in both poetry and theology and a commonly adopted trilogy of alliterative words used to help define religious community – believing, belonging and behaving.  This week, Hannah...
I was a stranger, and you took me in

I was a stranger, and you took me in

Our Poet Theologian, Hannah Stone, asks “Can we keep a light burning in our hearts, a light of compassion to shine into the darker corners of the world where oppression and hardship force people to make terrible decisions about their futures? In the autumn,...