Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new… Eckhart Tolle Those words may be appropriate as a title to what I’m minded to write here, as it is ‘acceptance’ by the UTU that shaped one of the two followings I have in discipleship.…
It was Christine Jones who first encouraged me to visit UTU and begin my journey of learning with them so it is with delight that I share her guest blog post this week. Don’t forget to send your memories, inspirations and stories to the office to be shared in future…
In last week’s blog post Paul Keeble wrote about encountering UTU via the Urban Theology Collective at Gladstone’s library. This week our contributor Greg Smith, shares his journey including the collaborative writing of ‘Faithfulness in the City’ a piece of work which came out of a writing fortnight with the…
This week we are privileged to share some words from Paul Keeble, one of our recent graduates. My first experience of UTU was not in Sheffield but at the Gladstone Library in Hawarden, North Wales in the early 2000s. I was invited by a colleague to a week of sharing…
We hope you have enjoyed some of the stories of the early days of UTU from Chris and Laurie. This week we are grateful for the contribution of Tony Holden. He takes us through his involvement with UTU from the 1970s onward. Several more guest blog posts have arrived at…
For this week’s guest blog post we are delighted to publish Bishop Laurie Green’s contribution sharing his memories and reflections of the earliest days of UTU. THE BEGINNINGS OF UTU I was studying in the States in 1968 at New York Theological Seminary. It had recently been taken over…
Happy 2019. This is the year that we celebrate 50 years of UTU and invite guest blog posts from all that have been influenced by our work over the years. We are delighted to introduce this series with Christopher Rowland’s contribution. If you would like to share your own story…
