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Lunchtime Conversation – Primal Vision
Tuesday 7th February, 12.30-14.30 All are welcome to join us for the first Lunchtime Conversation of the year. The book this month is Primal Vision by John V Taylor - Session led by George Otieno. George says "Most of today's ecological crises will remain unresolved...
Revisiting the Parekh Report: Looking forward to the Hook Lecture
Dr Rachel Muers, Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies, and Deputy Head of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds, examines the challenges of community and diversity int he aftermath of the Brexit vote. Questions about cultural, racial and religious...
Wisdom on the Way
Wisdom on the Way was the title for a short reflective series this autumn, convened by Leeds Church Institute and Leeds Christian Community Trust to support people working in urban communities in Leeds and beyond. The aim was to develop a small community of learning....
Pilgrimage Round Leeds in November
“Third Wedge”, or “Northern Quadrant”? After a week of the first named storm of winter, Storm Angus, I wondered how much we'd have to weather walking the third wedge of Leeds Pilgrimage. But against all forecasts, we walked under clear blue skies, straight into...
Lunchtime Conversations – The Dignity of Difference
Book by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - Session led by Mike Love and David Hamilton. Tuesday 6 December, 12.30-14.30 Light lunch will be provided. To book email [email protected] or phone 0113 391 7928
Leeds Big Bookend Children's Festival 2016
Leeds Church Institute is proud to support Leeds Big Bookend. Tickets are now available for the 2o16 Big Bookend Children's Festival on Saturday 19 November, 11.30-5pm at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds. With storytellers (including Anne Carter), theatre, puppet...
#MyAdventChallenge
What does Christmas mean to you? This is the question we are posing in #myadventchallenge. Using multiple social media platforms, and with a different theme each day, we are inviting them to share images accompanied by brief captions throughout advent. To follow this...
Pilgrimage Round Leeds… Second Wedge
Muck and Migration in the city: second stage of Leeds Country Way Pilgrimage Autumn was late this year. Only in the last week or so of September did the prevailing winds shift from southerly to northerly, enabling the start of autumn migration, as birds from...
Leeds Christians in Education Network Launch with Rev Kate Bottley (Podcast)
It felt like a Monty Python event… and now for something completely different! With the help of the inimitable Rev Kate Bottley, a new network was launched; “Leeds Christians in Education”. Leeds Church Institute treated educational workers, paid and voluntary, to an...
Rise and Be
Rise and be From ‘Naked Soles’ by Gbemisola Adeoti Those who behead the mahogany and leave the Iroko trunk forsaken in the forest those who from the root cut the curling foresight of baobab and rupture the promise of maple, to them is never the last laugh. The dying...