The Urban Theology Union is a member-led educational charity supporting Christian ministry particularly in urban contexts. More information about UTU and further job details can be found here. A permanent, part-time vacancy exists for an Administrative Assistant to work six hours per week (two 3 hour sessions worked over two…
UTU and National Estate Churches Network (NECN) are represented on the Estates Evangelism committee of the Church of England’s Renewal and Reform initiative which will launch an ambitious set of aspirations for ministry on estates next year. If you live on one of the UKs inner city or outer estates,…
The sessions of the monthly colloquium in the spring term will be occupied with ideas and drafts for John Vincent’s new project of writing a volume on ‘Jesus and Politics’. The December 13th meeting will discuss and plan the process of study sessions. Please bring suggestions on New Testament issues…
In October 2017, John Vincent met in Manchester, Connecticut, with three US colleagues with whom he has worked for many years: Geoff Curtis, Gary Richardson, and Don Rudalevige. Geoff is a retired episcopal priest living in New Jersey, Gary is a pastor of Belmont United Methodist Church in Massachusetts, and…
Our AGM is on Thursday 23rd November at 7 for 7:30 pm at the unit: Chapel Walk, Victoria Methodist Hall, S1 2JB. Light refreshments from 7 so do let us know, those of you who are coming. All members should now have received an email with the relevant documents. If…
As part of the Church of England’s Renewal and Reform strategy a steering group has been set up to look again at how we fund, encourage, and support Christian presence on estates. This week the Bishop of Burnley brought together some of the evangelistic and charitable agencies who are already…
We are going through a process of learning what it means to better engage with our own members and supporters. Every now and then we will post a short survey. This is really important to us. Press OK to help us out with a couple of minutes of your time.…
When I first trained as a priest I overheard two more experienced priests bemoaning the way emailing had hoovered up their time. “I spend hours each day stuck at my desk when I should be out and about.” “It’s hideous! This is NOT why I went into ministry – to…
The legal charity and social-conservative advocacy group Christian Concern have made the headlines again as they throw another vulnerable family into the dog pit of public scrutiny. But before we throw stones perhaps we should consider how common this advocacy strategy is? To begin with, the case that Christian Concern…
Like many cash-strapped local authorities, Bury council, Greater Manchester, has been going for the libraries. I mean, who needs free-and easy access to warm dry spaces, good books, IT, and diverse local company, right? They closed ten out of 14 libraries according to one source. Ten! Now they have lots…