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A Moral Pathway to a Sustainable City

by Revd George Otieno Perhaps my title, “A moral pathway to a sustainable city” may seem an odd one, but I am concerned to invite you to join me in the thinking about what such an odd title may mean as opposed to what we already know about pathway to sustainability....

Face to Face with Arthur's Call

Face to Face with Arthur’s Call By Stroma McDermott This year’s Hook lecture at Leeds Minster by Professor Frances Young provided a moving but theologically rich glimpse of Young’s journey of faith in the face of her eldest son’s severe learning difficulty. Young...

Guns and Deck Chairs

Guns and Deck Chairs        by David Rhodes The prize for the world’s worst Christmas card must surely have been won by a United States congresswoman. The card showed her in a family group with her husband and children. What made the picture shocking was that each...

Passion4Leeds

Imagine the events of Holy Week happening in Leeds in 2016. It would be all over social media, something perhaps like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltjFSg7TjiM&t=53s Passion4Leeds is a project of the Leeds Church Institute, Network Leeds and LCCT As part...

Leeds Lent Prayer Diary 2016

A Network Leeds Project Launch Event Thursday 28th January, 7.30pm at Leeds Church Institute, 20 New Market Street, LS1 6DG Book now at prayerdiary2016.eventbrite.co.uk.  

Violence Against Christians by Terrorists

Together We Must Defeat Religiously Motivated Violence By Qari Asim Imam, Makkah Mosque Leeds @QariAsim As we exchange seasons' greetings at this time of the year, we reflect upon the critically important Christian-Muslim initiatives that have taken place over the...

L is for Lifestyle, P is for Pilgrim

L is for Lifestyle, P is for Pilgrim By Stroma McDermott This September at LCI, we launched our new Autumn/Winter programme ‘People’s Pilgrimage Leeds: Theology and Action around Climate Change’ to coincide with events taking place nationally as part of the run up to...