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Renewing the Earth
"Caring for God’s earth is a crucial part of our Christian commitment as we learn more of the dangers to the planet." Bishop, John Packer writes in his introduction to a new environmental awareness course being developed by LCI in partnership with the Diocese of Ripon...
In Regio Loidis
On Thursday 27th September 2012 LCI hosted an evening with the Poet Laureate Carol Ann-Duffy, accompanied by music from John Sampson with a display of artwork from Stephen Raw.The event was held in a packed Leeds Minster where an audience of approx. 400 people,...
Lunchtime Conversation: Silences
After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and a remote cottage on the Isle...
Mona Siddiqui: Faith in Public Life
The second Hook Lecture took place in November, following on from the success of Baroness Warnock’s lecture in 2011. This year we had the pleasure of hearing Mona Siddiqui OBE FRSE FRSA. As professor of Islamic and Interreligious studies at Edinburgh University and...
The Poet Laureate: Sacred or ordinary?
It's not every day the Poet Laureate writes you a new poem. So it was with trepidation that I met Carol Ann Duffy at Leeds Minster in September, only three days after starting my job at LCI (they know how to throw you in the deep end here)! She was visiting the...
Lunchtime Conversation: Theology on the way to Emmaus
"The story of the disciples on the way to Emmaus can serve as a parable for the task of Christian interpretation. Those disciples, like the rest of us, had some difficulty in 'reading' their history and the context of 'recognition', the occasion on which things began...