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Simon Philips – Staying With The Trouble

Simon Philips – Staying With The Trouble

Hear Simon Philips (Interfaith Leader) talk about the stigma of poverty affecting people of the Jewish faith in conversation with Bishop James Jones   Listen on YouTube here: Simon Philips - Staying With The Trouble - YouTube  

Carol Tomlin – Staying With the Trouble

Carol Tomlin – Staying With the Trouble

Revd. Dr Carol Tomlin reflects on tackling racism in conversation with Bishop James Jones Listen on YouTube here: Carol Tomlin - Staying With the Trouble - YouTube

Mary Brennan – Staying with the Trouble

Mary Brennan – Staying with the Trouble

Listen to Mary Brennan (Social Activist and Leeds Resident) in conversation with Bishop James Jones about the troubles facing society and the insights public theology brings in this series focussing on different perspectives on poverty, inequality and exclusion in...

Tom Riordan, Staying with the Trouble 3.0

Tom Riordan, Staying with the Trouble 3.0

In partnership with the William Temple Foundation and LCI we hear from Tom Riordan on the conversations about the troubles facing society and the insights public theology can bring to them. This latest series is hosted by Bishop James Jones, and produced by Rosie...

LCI Annual Impact Report 2021

LCI Annual Impact Report 2021

If you would like a printed copy of the Impact Report 2021 please get in touch with [email protected] and we will send you one. [embeddoc url="https://lcileeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/LCI-Annual-Impact-Report-2021-Final-v6-compressed.pdf"...

Leeds Church Institute Gift to Kingdom School of Theology

Leeds Church Institute Gift to Kingdom School of Theology

LCI encourage and promote educational development and learning to all which is a core part of our mission and values, and we strive to support lifelong learning. We are delighted to be able to support the Students of Kingdom School of Theology with a range of books to...

Jam and Jerusalem – a blog post from Poet-theologian Hannah

Jam and Jerusalem – a blog post from Poet-theologian Hannah

Jam and Jerusalem – by Poet theologian Hannah Stone Recently I was fortunate enough to attend the Jubilee Tea Party, hosted jointly by LCI and Growing Old Gracefully, the Catholic organisation which will co-host the forthcoming event in the series on aging, which will...

Poet theologian blogs on June drop

Poet theologian blogs on June drop

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 Poet Theologian on a Seesaw

A Poet Theologian on a Seesaw

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...