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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,...
Lunchtime Conversations – Faith And Struggle On Smokey Mountain (Podcast)
This month Dr. Helen Reid leads the session on Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain: Hope for a Planet in Peril by Benigno P. Beltran "Smokey Mountain, the vast garbage dump in Manila has served for many years as an emblem of third world squalor. In many ways, it is...
Why is the Church so involved in the world of Education?
As Area Bishop and Chair of the Board of Education of the Church of England Diocese of Leeds, I am quite frequently asked this question, or something very similar to it. I find the form in which the question is asked to be very revealing, as it tells me a good deal...
One Beautiful Idea by Ian Adams
For weeks I had sat by the pool till late each night, the practice of a poet’s faith return each day to the source of it all but nothing moved as darkness fell. Tonight I watched again as the sun set behind the trees, and in the shadows’ rise and light’s slow cease,...
Photography and Spirituality with Thomas Jay Oord (podcast)
Theologian, writer and photographer Thomas Jay Oord joined us at St Chad's Church far Headingley to discuss What I Think About When I Think About God While I'm Walking And Hiking. Among other things Tom talked about trying to visualise the nature of God through...