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…
The UTU Colloquiums for the next three sessions will be working with Dr. John Vincent on a commissioned book: Jesus and Politics. The Colloquium meets on Wednesdays at 11.45am for midday, to 1.30pm, members bringing lunch. Spring Dates: 14th March, 11th April, 9th May 2018. Members will review chapters in…
‘UTU’s Contribution to British Adult Christian Education’ was the theme of the UTU Colloquium on 8th November 2017, when 10 of us met with two UTU members of forty years’ standing who came up from Cambridge for a celebratory occasion of recollection and discernment. Revd Prof. Christopher Rowland was Professor…
