In Luke’s Gospel, as Jesus is dying, the man dying on his right says ‘Remember me when you come into your kingdom’. As David Rhodes points out, the man says when not if. And so he comments, “Jesus is allowed to die hearing on the lips of a total failure the only word...
Revd Roger Walton, Chair of West Yorkshire District, urged churches to remember Christians in Peshawar on Sunday. During service based around the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin at St Chad’s Far Headingley this Sunday, we prayed Lord we give thanks that...
Exploring attitudes to death and loss might not sound like the basis for a good night out, but in fact it was. At the University of Leeds last night there was a performance by Ellie Harrison on ‘Etiquette of Grief’. It was engaging and entertaining, and caused me to...
Last night at Ripon Cathedral, Prof Tahrir Abbas asked “Why do we need a whole lecture on ‘Getting to know my Muslim Neighbour’?” He answered his own question succinctly, as follows here, and then in detail, in the lecture In UK society we need to know more about...
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Dr Helen Reid has been announced as the new Director of the Leeds Church Institute. She succeeds Margaret Halsey, who has been in the post for the past nine years. At a time when religious issues often spark controversy in the media and social cohesion is high on the...
