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Faith Based Universities and COVID-19: A Time to Dig Deep for our Moral Compass?

Apr 22, 2020 | Blog

Dr Ann Marie Mealey, Senior Teaching Fellow and Ethicist – Leeds Trinity University and co-chair of one of LCI’s partners, Leeds Citizens. Ann Marie reflects on the impact of Covid-19 in universities and specifically asks what does a person-centred approach look...

BOOK REVIEW: “To Be Like Jesus” by Revd Dr Daniel M. Mwailu

Apr 21, 2020 | Blog, Book review

Revd Olasupo Ogunyinka Revd Supo reviews a book that covers many aspects of Christian discipline and explores the various attributes and disciplines necessary to be like Jesus, backing them up with passages of scripture. We are taken on a journey of spiritual and...

A Good Death: Revd Tom Lusty reflects on ministry spent as a hospice chaplain in the context of Covid-19

Mar 16, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorised

Revd. Tom Lusty, LCI member and Vicar at St Giles, Bramhope reflects on ministry spent as a full-time hospice chaplain in the context of Covid-19. At a Lent lunch I was once given the remit, “Jesus: Anguished and forsaken”. Unfortunately the publicity went out as...

Climate anxiety, what can we do?

Mar 13, 2020 | Blog

By Anna Bland, Development Officer, Leeds Methodist Mission Climate Change is on many people’s minds and in the headlines at the moment. The schools strikes, Extinction Rebellion’s activities, Greta Thunberg, as well as councils, universities and other organisations...

The Carbon Conversation Course: Tools for Change

Feb 3, 2020 | Blog, Climate Change, Uncategorised

By Lizzie Pell, Course Participant Autumn 2019 I was feeling frustrated and exhausted from climate crisis activism, which was taking huge amounts of my energy and returning very little tangible results. Carbon Conversations gave me something different. Focussed on...

“The journey, Not the destination matters…” TS Eliot

Aug 20, 2019 | Artwork, Blog, Books

Illustrator Si Smith, talks about his process of story creation and the events that have influenced him. A few years ago I was part of a group who came together for a bit of mutual support and shared learning. Quite early on in our meet-ups, the word ‘Journey’ was...