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In Regio Loidis: The Poem
Cake, coffee and community
Third Thursday of each month (apart from December), 11am. Cake, coffee and community is an opportunity for LCI members, or those interested in the work of LCI, to come and meet the team. Over a slice of cake and a cup of coffee (or tea!) there will be the chance to...
Lunchtime Conversations: Post-Christendom
Tuesday 3rd December, 12.30-2.30. Session led by Dan Brown. Lunchtime Conversations is a book club for theological books. On the first Tuesday of each month a group of between 10 and 20 people from different theological backgrounds meet in LCI’s library to discuss a...
Lunchtime Conversations: Parables as Subversive Speech
Tuesday 5th November, 12.30-2.30. Session led by Tom Lusty. Lunchtime Conversations is a book club for theological books. On the first Tuesday of each month a group of between 10 and 20 people from different theological backgrounds meet in LCI’s library to discuss a...
Lunchtime Conversation: The Good Muslim
Tuesday 1st October, 12.30-2.30. Session led by Dr. Helen Reid. Lunchtime Conversations is a book club for theological books. On the first Tuesday of each month a group of between 10 and 20 people from different theological backgrounds meet in LCI’s library to discuss...
Membership
To pay for your annual membership through PayPal please click the subscribe button below. LCI membership costs just £10 per year. As well as receiving our quarterly CITYTheology Magazine, and being able to help LCI make decisions about its future, you will be able to...
Making a Good City
This report, made in partnership with the One City Project, explored reflections on urban life and faith. The research took place over a period of two years and involved twenty five consultations. The aim was to explore contemporary Leeds with reference to four...
LCI's new director well placed to further work of social cohesion
Dr Helen Reid has been announced as the new Director of the Leeds Church Institute. She succeeds Margaret Halsey, who has been in the post for the past nine years. At a time when religious issues often spark controversy in the media and social cohesion is high on the...
Controversial or contemplative? Leeds Big Bookend Festival.
2013 was the 25th anniversary of one of Leeds' most controversial cultural offerings - the poem V, written by Beeston born, Tony Harrison. When it was aired on Channel 4 in 1989, towards the end of the Thatcher government, it provoked the wrath of Mary Whitehouse, the...
Education
LCI’s educational programme is shaped by four areas of interest: Learning for Mission. Learning for Discipleship. Learning in Context. Learning in the City. 1. Learning for Mission: Responding to contemporary events/concerns and the history of mission in Leeds....