At the recent Commission meeting in early February, we discussed how to take forward the listening event that we held just prior to Christmas. We received very good feedback from the event and at first thought we might do a follow up in March.However, we agreed that the next similar event should take place somewhere […]
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05 Jan – Listening to the Signs of the Times-what did we hear?
By Matty Maslen, Newsletter Editor; Sara Forrest, Commission member; and Bronagh Daly, Faith and Creativity Lead at LCI.At the end of last year, we held an event at Wheeler Hall in Leeds. The title was ‘Listening to the Signs of the Times’.To begin the event, John Battle read a prayer which called for the Lord […]
01 Dec – Listening to the ‘Signs of the Times’
By John Battle, Commission Chair Saturday 16th Dec (11am to 1pm at Wheeler Hall) there is an open invitation to a “special event ” of our Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission to reflect on who we are now and our purpose and mission in the Diocese in the light of the Church’s ” Synodal Process” […]
07 Nov – Film Presentation Israelism
This year SPARK Social Justice is sponsoring one of the films in the Palestinian Film festival. It will be the last film to be shown. The presentation will take place on Saturday December 9th at 2pm. As well as showing the film itself, the director will be available for a post-film discussion via Zoom. Additionally, […]
15 Oct – Faith & Creativity: A Tool for Social Justice
By Bronagh Daly, Faith and Creativity Lead LCIFaith and creativity are interconnected in helping us to discuss and convey hard to explain messages. Whether it is the banner on the protest march, or the font type we choose to promote a retreat, we would be hard pushed to find a faith or justice movement where […]
12 Oct – SPARK: Empower, Lead, Change
This was an inter-generational conversation about where faith might fit into how we view leadership. It was set up as an informal event where students could have conversations with a number of invited guests with different leadership experiences who acted as discussion facilitators. We almost cancelled the event as not only was there a train […]
05 Sep – Peacejam Slam in Leeds in November
By Matty Maslen, Newsletter editorPeaceJam is an international organisation led by 14 Nobel Peace Laureates working to support a generation of future Nobel Peace Laureates. Their vision is “To Make Peace a Verb”.So far, over 1.3 million young people in more than 40 countries have taken part in the PeaceJam programme.On the 11th of November […]