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Leeds Unsung: Jackie Hird, The Joanna Project (podcast)
Continuing our series with Katrine Madsen who has been working with Leeds Citizens for the past six months as a community organiser. We are talking to community leaders with a Christian faith, from across the city who are making a difference to people’s lives in...
Leeds Unsung: Hannah Pearson (podcast)
Continuing our new series with Katrine Madsen who has been working with Leeds Citizens for the past six months as a community organiser. We are talking to community leaders with a Christian faith, from across the city who are making a difference to people’s lives in...
Can cities be good, and green?
Wednesday 12th September 2018 sees Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley delivering the annual Hook Lecture at Leeds Minster. Here, Ed Carlisle, Parliamentary and Council candidate with the Green Party in Central Leeds, prepares for Jonathan Bartley’s visit by...
Holy Spirit Radicals with Arani Sen (podcast)
Arani Sen joins us to talk about his book Holy Spirit Radicals, Pentecost, Acts and Changed Society. In Holy Spirit Radicals, Arani Sen argues that the charismatic movement has encouraged a return to the standpoint of the apostles in Acts. Although we need a personal...
Leeds Unsung: Angela Hughes (podcast)
Continuing our new series with Katrine Madsen who has been working with Leeds Citizens for the past six months as a community organiser. We are talking to community leaders with a Christian faith, from across the city who are making a difference to people’s lives in...
Leeds Unsung: Alistair Kaye (podcast)
Continuing our new series with Katrine Madsen who has been working with Leeds Citizens for the past six months as a community organiser. We are talking to community leaders across the city who are making a difference to people’s lives in difficult circumstances. We...
Leeds Unsung: Ed Carlisle (podcast)
Today we begin a new series with Katrine Madsen who has been working with Leeds Citizens for the past six months as a community organiser. We will be looking at community leaders across the city who are making a difference to people's lives in difficult circumstances....
Looking back at 2017 (podcast)
Today's podcast is taken from the Leeds Church Institute AGM. Helen Reid, Director of LCI looks back at 2017. Together we looked back at the people who helped us, the publications we put together and the events that we organised.
A city of our dreams?
By Helen Reid Director of the Leeds Church Institute It is estimated that globally over one billion people and rising are living in ‘shanty town’ contexts. As Miles Davis writes, twenty-first-century cities [R]ather than being made of glass and steel as envisioned by...
Experiencing Beauty and Wellbeing part 2 (podcast)
Today’s podcast is taken from our recent event Experiencing Beauty and Wellbeing. Presented by Tasia Scrutton and Mark Wynn from the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds. In part 2, Mark Wynn discusses how theology might affect...