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The Poet Laureate: Sacred or ordinary?

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

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...