Our latest guest blog post is from former student Simon Topping. We are looking forward to our jubilee celebrations at the Urban Theology Unit in Victoria Hall, Sheffield on Monday 8th July. Please contact the office for more details. UTU gave me the opportunity to take forward an…
Lunchtime Forums: What makes a good city? Series 3 Wednesday, 22 May 2019: Qari Mohammed Siddique, Islamic scholar, University of Sheffield Chaplain and ex-city councillor on ‘The Islamic tradition of Charity and welfare’. The respondent is to be confirmed. Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and…
SUMMER FORUMS 2019 What makes a good city? Series 3. Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. Jeremiah 29:7 We are continuing looking at the issues where…
We return with the next in our series of guest blog posts celebrating the 50 years of study and life at the Urban Theology Union Richard Firth I suppose I do not fit with the usual student pattern at UTU but then the beauty of…
SPRING FORUM SERIES 2019 What makes a good city? Series 2: Wednesday 10 April: 12 – 1.30pm Jenny Carpenter on ‘How well is our city responding to climate change?’ with the Revd Michael Bayley as respondent and Jo Chamberlain as Chair Sir David Attenborough has described climate change as the greatest threat…
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…
SPRING FORUM SERIES 2019: What makes a good city? Series 2 The Revd Dr John Vincent on ‘Church Policy in Sheffield’ with the Revd Nick Jowett as respondent and the Revd Phil Borkett as chair Wednesday 13 March: 12 – 1.30pm All welcome! As recounted in their book Inner City Testament (2017), John and Grace Vincent began their mission…
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…
