Dec 14, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
We’ve heard the word ‘unprecedented’ used a lot in recent weeks, in connection now with the speed and volume of vaccines being produced, not to mention the formidable logistics needed to safeguard the health of the entire global population from this awful virus. At...
Dec 7, 2020 | Blog, Poet theologian
As I write, the country has just shifted from the second full lockdown to a return to the ‘tiers system’ which juggles at a supposedly local level the governing of infection control with sustaining the economy. Leeds had been on the verge of entering tier three when...
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 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...
