Long Covid on holiday It’s holiday time, for school children, and many others! My friends and family have disappeared off the social radar as they head off to refresh themselves in new pastures, whether local or abroad. And I’ve been immensely fortunate to have...
Following the book launch in July 2022, we have edited a number of short clips on YouTube sharing understanding and strategies on how to manage everyday racism. Our YouTube channel is @Leeds Church Institute, LCI A look at the book… The prevalence of sophisticated...
During Refugee Week, at the end of June, I visited St Aidan’s church in Harehills, where the ‘Seeing Asylum’ ‘photo-story’ by Maria De Angelis and Jeremy Abrahams was on display. (If you haven’t been able to view it yourself- or if you think YOUR church might host it...
A couple of weeks ago in my blog, I mentioned Keith Alban’s image of the active earlier stages of life being akin to a mountaineer, and the moving towards old age as a downhill slope. This is powerfully recalled in The Way Up Is Down exhibition, about which I’ll...
A couple of weeks ago I spent an absorbing couple of hours in St Edmund’s Church, Roundhay. It is a fine building; I’ve sung lovely music there, and know various people connected with it. But this was no mere social or overtly religious visit; I was attending a guided...
Greetings, on the first day of meteorological summer. There’s been a hiatus in postings from your poet-theologian, as this blog entry will explain. As I write, I am enjoying the long view from my study window of the outskirts of Leeds and beyond that, distant...
