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…
This week our current Chair of Trustees Erica Dunmow tells of how she first heard of UTU. My first contact with UTU was through David Moore. I attended and worshipped at Bow Road Mission, East End, London from 1981-1991 where David was minister. David’s creative style influenced by UTU’s approach,…
SPRING FORUM SERIES 2019: What makes a good city? Series 2 Wednesday 13 February,12–1.30pm David Price on ‘The impact of immigration in Sheffield’ with Joe Forde as respondent and Ibtisam Al-Farah as chair All welcome! David will draw on his recently published book Welcome to Sheffield – A Migration History…
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…
