City Wires and Networks: How Christians Navigate Them. Join us by Zoom at 4-5.30pm on Wednesday: 28 September 2022 for a rich conversation between: Lord David Blunkett, former MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough; Councilmember Kristerfer Burnett of Baltimore, Maryland (USA); and Rev Zaidie Orr, Team Ministry member for the…
From a sermon by Rev’d Dr Rob Hoch, Director of Theological Exploration on Luke 11:1-13, preached at the St. Anne’s URC 24 July 2022: Did you notice there was no heaven in Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer? The language “. . . who art in heaven . . .thy…
Come and listen to our own Dr. Joe Forde talk about his new book: Thursday, 15 September 2022, 7.30pm Norfolk Room, United Reformed Church,60 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB
The Certificate in Theology & Discipleship for Mission helps you to develop your understanding of God’s call in your life. Through in-depth study of the Gospel of Mark, theological reflection, and personal engagement with the materials, guests, and teachers, you will gain deeper knowledge of what it means to be a…
Please join us on Monday, 20 June 2022 at 2 p.m. for our second of three forums on “City Wires and Networks: How Christians Navigate Them” with Rev Julian Sullivan and Rev Dr Rob Hoch, moderator, on the topic of ministry and urban networks. In these three forums, Rev. Julian…
Social Action Mapping Researcher with the UTU for Sheffield Diocese Project UTU has been asked to undertake a mapping and case study exercise of the social action engagement of Anglican churches by the Sheffield Diocese. This will provide a snapshot of what impact Covid has had on social action in…
“Healing, Evangelism, and the Kingdom of God” Rev. Rob Hoch, PhD 26 April 2022 (Working Paper for the Kingdom Evangelism Project) While evangelical movements often speak of “reaching the unreached” with the gospel, the stories of the Gospel, particularly in Mark, speak to the “saving health” that Jesus imparts to…
Announcing Urban Theology Union’s City Wires and Networks : How Christians Navigate Them Inspired in part by the acclaimed series, The Wire, and drawing especially on Rev. Julian Sullivan’s decades of experience of urban ministry in Sheffield, this course brings together people who are dedicated, through expertise and vocation, to…
Dr Martin Luther King: A Historical Perspective[DVD][1994 / 2005] Contributors: Thomas Friedman, Arthur Burghardt This is a sympathetically interpretive account of the role Dr Martin Luther King played in the struggle for civil rights for blacks in America in the late 1950s and 1960s. DVD REVIEW Dr Joe Forde
Former Urban Theology Union PhD Student to Publish a Book Based on his Research Dr Joe Forde’s Book Coming soon – please click on the link above to read all about it!