By Kathy Shaw – SPARK ManagerSPARK and the Justice and Peace Commission are members of Leeds Citizens and at their Accountability Assembly at the end of April we heard from the potential Mayoral candidates for West Yorkshire. I went with Anthony, one of our SPARK supporters and John Battle Chair of the J&P Commission also attended. […]
LTU
31 Mar – A Future For The Global Common Good
By Dr Ann Marie Mealey, Director of Catholic Mission, LTUBeing a Catholic University in today’s complex global society is no easy task. With many feeling that values are akin to subjective preference and not at all the result of carefully discerning the truth which involves the sources of morality, it can be tricky to convince […]
18 Mar – Resilience in Working for Justice & Peace
On 14 March SPARK Social Justice and the J&P Commission, in partnership with Leeds Trinity University, had organised a presentation of the 2024 Romero Lecture. The Archbishop Romero Trust organises this event every year, taking a guest lecturer on a short UK-wide tour. This year the speaker was Dr Raymond Perrier, Director of the Denis Hurley […]
10 Feb – 2024 Romero Lecture
The Archbishop Romero Trust engages someone every year to do a short speaking tour.This year the speaker is Raymond Perrier. The Commission is organising a presentation of Raymond’s talk in the Leeds Diocese. As with last year, we are partnering with Leeds Trinity University. The meeting will take place on Thursday 14 March at 7pm […]
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 […]