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How can we fix dementia care?
Today’s podcast is taken from our recent event for people who live or work with those diagnosed with dementia. Neil Courtman from Alzheimer's Society spoke to us about the Fix Dementia Care campaign. What are Alzheimer's Society Campaigning for? "It is a scandal that...
Through Whose Eyes?
Kelly Scott from The National Holocaust Museum talks about Eye as Witness: Recording The Holocaust. From 2nd to 13th December LCI has been hosting a new exhibition, co-produced by the National Holocaust Centre and Museum and academics from the University of Nottingham...
A Muslim Perspective On Climate Change
Today’s podcast is taken from our recent Faith Leader’s and Climate Change event where Imam Qari Asim spoke about climate change from an Islamic perspective. Imam Asim talks about how the world was created in balance, and asks how we, as stewards of this world, have...
How can we best support those with dementia and cancer
Today’s podcast is taken from our recent event for people who live or work with those diagnosed with dementia. Professor Claire Surr presents the finding of a study that the Department of Dementia Studies at Leeds Met University recently completed looking at the...
How can we celebrate a low carbon Christmas?
At our recent Low Carbon Christmas event, in partnership with Leeds Methodist Mission, we were joined by community leader and Green Party candidate Ed Carlisle who shared some ideas and principles to help us celebrate Christmas without harming the planet. This is our...
The disfigurement of the earth is a disfigurement of our own bodies
Today's podcast is taken from our recent Faith Leader's and Climate Change event where Dr Carmody Grey spoke about Laudato Si, Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment and human ecology. Carmody explains that care for the environment has been a theme of Catholic...
Christians in Education for Interfaith Week
For today’s Christians in Education podcast, Tim Hobbs spoke to Mike Hainsworth, an RE teacher in North Yorkshire, about Interfaith Week, his work as an RE teacher and how teaching about other faiths has influenced him as he explores his own faith. The Christians in...
Something Veiled
A prose poem written by Deacon Merry Evans, Methodist Representative on the Leeds Responsible Gaming Forum. Leeds City Centre, Eastgate. The Victoria Gate Casino. Truly, this grand foyer is a liminal space! Literally it is the space between two worlds. I cross the...
How should we respond to civil disobedience and the climate crisis?
Written by Revd Jon Swales, Lighthouse Mission Priest for Leeds and Tutor in Biblical Theology at St Hild College and Dr Simon Kittle, from Christian Climate Action. On 15th July, activists from Extinction Rebellion drove a boat onto Victoria Bridge on Neville Street...
Shaeron Caton-Rose joins us for the 2020 Arts and Theology Bursary launch
As part of the launch of the 2020 Arts and Theology Bursary we were delighted to be joined by artist Sharon Caton-Rose who spoke about her work as an artist and how art and theology can work together. Shaeron has been exhibiting her art for over 20 years and her work...