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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...

The View from Halfway Up the Hill

The View from Halfway Up the Hill

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...

Staying with the Trouble 3.0: One Bishop, One City, One Hope

Staying with the Trouble 3.0: One Bishop, One City, One Hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAbYIKkI5K0 The William Temple Foundation, in partnership with Leeds Church Institute, is delighted to launch the latest series in our ground-breaking podcast Staying with the trouble. The series will run for the next six weeks,...

Everyday Sacrament Book Launch Event

Everyday Sacrament Book Launch Event

Leeds Sanctuary and Leeds Church Institute will be hosting the book launch of Everyday Sacrament by Shaeron Caton Rose which is a collection of art meditations published as reflective blog posts by Leeds Sanctuary during the pandemic period. We acknowledge the...

The Way Up Is Down Exhibition

The Way Up Is Down Exhibition

The Way Up Is Down by Leon Varga In 2021 during the UK’s third national lockdown, Hungarian artist Leon Varga was the recipient of a small bursary, awarded to him by Leeds Church Institute. The Way Up Is Down is the product of that bursary - a kinetic sculptural...