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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...
Experiencing Beauty and Wellbeing part 1 (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 this first part, Tasia Scrutton explores how...
The Fall of the Church with Mike Winter (podcast)
This month Mike Winter leads on The Fall Of The Church by Roger Haydon Mitchell. This book prepares the way for the practice of kenarchy: a humanity-loving, world-embracing, inclusive approach to life and politics. It does so by identifying two conflicting streams in...
Loving in Absence
By Lawrence Cockrill The saying goes ‘the only things that are guaranteed in life are death and taxes’. Loss and grief are near universal experiences and there are few of us who have not lost a friend or loved one at some time. In Leeds, and in Britain as a whole, we...
Christ Crucified – the power of God and the wisdom of God with James Alison (podcast)
Last week James Alison visited Leeds and spoke at All Hallows Church on the topic of Christ Crucified – the power of God and the wisdom of God (1 Cor 1:23-24) What it is like on the inside of this as an LGBT person? Alison is celebrated for his firm but gentle...
What can we learn from the Mexican tradition of Ofrenda building? (podcast)
Ellie Harrison from The Grief Series and Vlady Diaz from Mexico joined us to talk about the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations. Ellie and her team visited Mexico to experience and take part in the dia de los Muertos celebrations and brought back with them photos and...
Wild City Retreat – Reflecting on the Ecocycle
Shaeron Caton-Rose reflects on the Easter Wild City Retreat. We are all part of a cycle, life is not a straight line from beginning to end, it is a loop which encompasses both what we see as positive experiences and those we find more difficult. Birth, growth,...