Events Programme
Responding to Questions Against Racism
Ask the questions you’ve always wanted to about faith and racial justice, and have the hard, ongoing conversations we need for real change
Monday 29th September, 6pm-9pm, Community Wellbeing Hub, Reginald Terrace, LS7 3EZ
How can we work towards racial justice in our churches?
Join Leeds Church Institute and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland for an evening of community and conversation.
Our panel of church leaders will discuss the questions you asked at our Churches Against Racism event in 2024 about how denominations are taking action for racial justice, and the barriers to ecumenical cooperation.
We will engage with the questions Christians are asking in Leeds, to proactively seek racial justice in the Church.
Hear real responses from people at the forefront of responding to the urgent challenges facing the churches today.
Interculturalism, Faith, and Racial Justice
Learning to help our City thrive
Monday 6th October, 6pm-9pm, Community Wellbeing Hub, Reginald Terrace, LS7 3EZ
How can we work towards racial justice in our churches?
Leeds is a wonderfully diverse city, with a range of cultures and ethnicities making up our faith communities.
How can we celebrate this diversity well, and actively engage with people of cultures that are different to our own?
In this evening with Leeds Church Institute and Leeds Trinity University, you will learn how interculturalism, with its emphasis on understanding and interaction between people of different ethnicities, cultures and traditions, can help challenge racism and discrimination in our city.
The event will look at how interculturalism, faith and racial justice can help churches and local communities thrive.
Refreshments will be provided.
The Hook Lecture 2025
Prophet or Provider?
Tuesday 21st October, 7pm, Leeds Minster, Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ
Churches are increasingly being called upon to meet the urgent needs in our communities. But how do we balance this important work with the Christian call to be a prophetic voice for change?
Are handouts really the answer? How do we find time while pulling people out of the river, to go upstream and find out who is pushing them in?
For this year’s Hook Lecture, we welcome Jon Kuhrt to Leeds to explore our theme: is the church called to be ‘Prophet’ or ‘Provider’?
Jon Kuhrt is the Chief Executive of Hope into Action, a national Christian charity partnering with churches to provide homes for people who have been homeless.