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How do we understand healing in a world shaped by medical technology, trauma, disability, and social fragmentation?How m...
12/05/2026

How do we understand healing in a world shaped by medical technology, trauma, disability, and social fragmentation?

How might Christian theology speak meaningfully about healing without reinforcing harmful assumptions about perfection or normality, and what role might churches and sacred spaces play in nurturing healing within contemporary communities?

Join York Minster and York St John University for a symposium on Reframing Healing for our Time: Faith, Health & the Human Condition

LCI Director Revd Dr Chris Swift will be a speaker, drawing from his experience of over 30 years in health and social care chaplaincy.

This event celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Canonisation of St William of York, whose shrine at York Minster became one of the great medieval centres of pilgrimage and prayer for healing, as well as the publication of the new work on Disability Theology 'Breaking not Broken' by Timothy Goode.

đź“… 10am-5pm Thursday 9th July
đź“ŤYork St John University, YO31 7EX
🎟️ Book your pay-what-you-can ticket: https://buff.ly/uYYdMWj

Our friends at Project Bonhoeffer are teaming up with SCM to explore how we can have fruitful conversations across polit...
08/05/2026

Our friends at Project Bonhoeffer are teaming up with SCM to explore how we can have fruitful conversations across political divides...

đź“… Saturday 20th June
đź“Ť Emmanuel Centre, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 3AR

What would it look like to take Jesus’s command to do good to those who hate us seriously? Where do we draw the line between loving our enemies, and protecting vulnerable people from harm; is it possible to do both? What seeds of goodness might grow in ground we've written off as barren?

Join SCM and Project Bonhoeffer as we explore these questions and more on the theme of loving our neighbour in a time of rising violent far-right activity.

🎟️ Students and recent graduates can book an SCM ticket - everyone else can book a Project Bonhoeffer ticket at movement.org.uk/events

'Our calling as Christians is to love and to learn from all God’s people: celebrating the beauty and dignity of every hu...
24/04/2026

'Our calling as Christians is to love and to learn from all God’s people: celebrating the beauty and dignity of every human being, with a special bias for anyone whose beauty and dignity is contested through ignorance, pride, prejudice, racism, hatred.'

We are proud to have played a part in gathering signatories for this powerful and thoughtful statement.

We will continue to work with our Churches Against Racism group to explore ecumenical responses to racism in the city.

You are invited to the launch of Named, Shamed and Blamed, a new work from Hannah Waite."What happens when faith communi...
20/04/2026

You are invited to the launch of Named, Shamed and Blamed, a new work from Hannah Waite.

"What happens when faith communities become places of stigma rather than sanctuary? Named, Shamed and Blamed explores this urgent question by introducing the concept of 'spiritual stigma' and its profound impact.

Written for theologians, faith leaders, mental health professionals, and all those concerned with belonging, it urges the Church to confront stigma as a theological issue and to cultivate communities that embrace those on the margins as central to the body of Christ, offering a vision of hope and transformation."

6.30pm Wednesday 6th May
Michael Sadler Foyer, University of Leeds

There is still time to apply for our two new posts, journeying with churches in Leeds to provide the theological resourc...
16/04/2026

There is still time to apply for our two new posts, journeying with churches in Leeds to provide the theological resources needed in acting for justice.

Find out more and request an applicant pack at www.leedschurchinstitute.org.uk/jobs

How do we build systems worth caring about?The Mangoletsi-Potts Lectures are a free series of talks at the University of...
14/04/2026

How do we build systems worth caring about?

The Mangoletsi-Potts Lectures are a free series of talks at the University of Leeds, this year exploring the failings and potential of social systems with Prof Kevin Timpe (Calvin University, USA).

"Humans are fundamentally social beings. Part of what is means for humans to be social in this sense is for us to dependent on others. None of us can thrive cut off from community. Each of us is dependent, especially for our thriving, on other individuals in our communities.

These four lectures are going to focus on social systems. given their centrality in how our lives work and, ultimately, in how well they go."

Lecture 1: Wednesday 29th April 2026, 16.30 – 18.00 (followed by drinks reception)
Lecture 2: Thursday 30th April, 16.30 – 18.00
Lecture 3: Tuesday 5th May, 16.30 – 18.00
Lecture 4: Wednesday 6th May, 16.30 – 18.00

Find out more and sign up for your place here https://buff.ly/PHYU6ps

We are pleased to share that Revd Dr Chris Swift, CEO of Leeds Church Institute, as been made a Fellow of The College of...
02/04/2026

We are pleased to share that Revd Dr Chris Swift, CEO of Leeds Church Institute, as been made a Fellow of The College of Health Care Chaplains.

'This honorary position is reserved for those who are deemed to have made a contribution of significance to the College and/or to the profession of Health Care Chaplaincy.

Chris Swift, for his major contribution to research in spiritual care and chaplaincy, his work on the 2015 Chaplaincy Guidelines which broke new ground, his teaching around chaplaincy and pastoral care at St Michael's College (now St Padarn's Institute) in the MTh in Chaplaincy Studies programme for many years and now in the post-graduate chaplaincy studies programme offered by St Padarn's in conjunction with Durham University'.

Work with us...We are currently recruiting two Urban Churches' Theologians to accompany, understand and theologically re...
31/03/2026

Work with us...

We are currently recruiting two Urban Churches' Theologians to accompany, understand and theologically resource the city’s churches.

These appointments represent an unusual and exciting opportunity to become part of a small community of reflective learning and action, committed to discerning opportunities for theological development allied to social justice.

Find out more at www.leedschurchinstitute.org/jobs

What can we learn about Advent from creation? Clare Coleman shares two meditations from her background in botany, writte...
18/12/2025

What can we learn about Advent from creation? Clare Coleman shares two meditations from her background in botany, written for our Advent retreat for disabled Christians...

"For many of us, time itself is experienced differently: slower, more interrupted, non-linear. The pinecone honours this experience. What may feel like delay is actually the richest way for life to unfold."

Read more: https://buff.ly/JOhOL2n

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