AUTUMN COLLOQUIA 2018: What makes a good city? 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 This autumn we are holding a series of three lunchtime colloquia…
Our new office administrator, Jill Wagg, will be taking over from Helen in September. Jill will be in the office Monday mornings from 9.30 – 1.30 and working an additional 8 hours from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Grounded in faith and family, she brings many years of office administration…
We are really excited to have Joerg Rieger speaking with us at UTU on Saturday 11th August 12 noon to 4:30 pm at the unit. Access to our basement teaching suite is via Chapel Walk – take the lift and then follow signs. Details of how to find us here.…
Ian Duffield, Director of Research at UTU has written to the Church Times this week to reflect on the possible change in emphasis in clergy vocations in the Church of England. Are we gaining Pries-managers at the expense of pastors and prophets? Taking note of research by UTU members Professor…
Normally in July we host a Sumer School in partnership with Ashram. This year it has not been possible but we do hope it will be back on next summer. Thanks for your patience, Keith
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ (John 20: 19) In our gospel reading…
The concept of ‘Black face’ – where a white person paints their face black to “perform” as a black person, is thought to originated in the US South, unsurprisingly. It goes back as far as the 1830s and was still thing within my lifetime as I remember Spike Milligan doing…
Six times a year a small group of Ahram and UTU members meet up over lunch to hear presentations of writing and discuss ideas on radical discipleship and mission. This year the theme for our colloquium meetings will be ‘Jesus and Politics: Changing the World’. The first of these will…
The Cathedrals Working Group has just published its first report. As someone with a mixed experience of Cathedral life. When I was a curate, I was arrested during a booked event at Gloucester Cathedral. Several friends have been arrested at St Paul’s in London during and after the Occupy movement’s…
A close friend and co-operator with UTU has recently died – the Rev Gordon Squire. He worked with us in Urban Ministry Courses in the Midlands, which he was a coordinator for. On one occasion, hearing we were short of cash, he made us a loan for six months, which…
