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Faith and Activism: Religious Protest in the age of BLACKLIVESMATTER
Leo Joslin, postgraduate student and member of staff at Leeds Church Institute, reflects on the role and purpose of faith in activism and protest today. Leo's article is also published in our Summer CITYtheology magazine. A protest movement in the 21st...
You Know The Way For Me
As lockdown eases, our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence, Hannah Stone, shares her own fears and concerns and asks us to consider, as we acclimatise to the outside world, how can we practice trusting that God does indeed ’know the way for us’? So, lockdown...
Bearing one another’s burdens
This week our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence Hannah Stone considers the mutuality of support; honouring the need we have for each other at a personal level, as well as the symbiotic relationship of institutions and organisations. Last week, the big news...
Trials, tribulations and determination in the art of online musical creation
Sarah Stead from Musicultural Conversations, a project sponsored by Leeds Church Institute with funding support from Leeds Inspired and Open Source Arts, has written a reflection on the preparations for their Online Workshop for Refugee Week 2020 (15th-21st June)....
‘Is it too late to stop climate catastrophe?’
Jen Walper Roberts, a leadership coach and member of the Jewish community in Leeds, considers this question in conversation with her friend Nili Simhai, Director of Outdoor Education for Abundance Farm https://www.abundancefarm.org/, and reflects on the idea of giving...
Treasure
We are delighted to hear poet Rachel Flint read her poem 'Treasure', published in the anthology And The Stones Fell Open: A Leeds Poetry Anthology available here . In an earlier conversation with LCI Director, Dr Helen Reid, Rachel talked about her inspiration for...
In It Together
In this week's blog, our Poet Theologian in Virtual Residence Hannah Stone reflects that we are no longer at a stage where Covid 19 is everything to us because other events and issues are impinging on our consciousness in lockdown. Modern modes of communication...
Climate Change: Have we left it too late to act?
As we continue with our short podcasts that consider this question, Dr Stefan Skrimshire reflects on what we mean by that and asks in return "...too late for what and for whom?" Stefan goes on to reflect on what it means to act justly in a time of radical uncertainty...
An Aroko for David Oluwale
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Archbishop of York, John Sentamu have responded to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Monday 25th May 2020. “Recent events in the United States of America have once again drawn public attention to the ongoing evil...
Silence is no longer an option: Black Lives Matter
Church leaders from across our city, including Leeds Church Institute Director Dr Helen Reid, have written an open letter that says 'Silence is no longer an option: Black Lives Matter ' following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, America. "As...