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Perspective on Jeremiah
Monday 20th October at LCI 2-4pm. Rabbi Esther Hugenholz will speak about the prophet Jeremiah and comment on selected texts. This event is supported by the Council of Christians and Jews as part of the Near Neighbours Programme in Leeds. To book a place please...
Genesis 25: 19-34
Genesis 25 19-34 - 15th Ordinary
Looking for spiritual byways in the wild city
Over the cycle of a year, starting in October, a new group will be beginning to explore our relationship with the natural world, in creative, experiential ways. We are calling these explorations, Wild City Retreats. Various traditions have called the natural world the...
What if stories changed people, referendums and reality?
Would you like to join a society of possible histories? We want to change the world. Last weekend, I was helping recruit new members to the Knaresborough Society of Possible Histories, as part of Release the Hounds Festival. As part of educating new members about the...
Lunchtime Conversations
Tuesday 7th October 12.30-2.30pm at LCI 'A Rabbi Reads the Torah' by Jonathan Magonet. The session will be led by Dr Helen Reid and a light lunch will be provided. Please email [email protected] or phone 0113 391 7928 if you would to attend.
Book Launch Kemi Atanda Ilori -Wole Soyinka and Other Poems
Thursday 9th October from 5.45pm at LCI, 20 New Market Street, Leeds, LS1 6DG. A vibrant evening of readings, speakers, food and music to celebrate this new collection of poems from Dr Kemi Atanda Ilori, which pays tribute to the fearless activism of Nobel Prize...
Four Seasons in Harehills
Join with a group of Christians engaged in mission in the city for a reflective retreat. Together we will be open to encounter God in the people and places of Harehills, and reflect together. We begin the morning with prayer and theological engagement, then we spend...
Stories from the Forest of Leeds
A year of hearing, creating and learning about stories, led by author and theatre producer Daniel Ingram-Brown. Click here to visit his website. These events are FREE, but please let us know if you're coming.
Where do you find treasure in Leeds?
Imagine the city as a forest in a fairy tale. A complex, diverse place with no wide landscape, just roads threaded between buildings connecting people and communities. It is a home for stories to be told and heard, a place to explore, perhaps to get lost, and...
Where is the hope in failure?
It is a truism that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. If you are talking about the parts of a bicycle, for example, then yes, it is clearly true. But what about in human lives, can something incomplete or broken be greater than something whole? As David...