Like many cash-strapped local authorities, Bury council, Greater Manchester, has been going for the libraries. I mean, who needs free-and easy access to warm dry spaces, good books, IT, and diverse local company, right? They closed ten out of 14 libraries according to one source. Ten! Now they have lots of empty buildings and desperately … Read more
Sheffield Church Action on Poverty, Sheffield University Chaplaincy and the Urban Theology Union came together yesterday (4th May 2017) with food bank volunteers from across the city with a big question: how do we go beyond food banks? A big thanks to Jeremy Clines, from the University Chaplaincy for bringing us all together. The event was … Read more
Subversive Eucharist Webinar 28th February 10 am to 11:30 am Members: Free Other: Donations requested after the event We’ve had a fair bit of interest in holding a workshop on Radical understandings of the Eucharist. People who wanted to come on this event live all over the show and have their own challenges to face … Read more
Monday 27th February 11 am to 3 pm Urban Theology Unit, Victoria Methodist Hall, Sheffield, S1 2JB Register for a free place When I finished my first Theology Degree in 1999 I got a 2:2; not nearly enough to get me onto the Masters course. So I went to see the Professor and made the … Read more
It was great to have Anna Rowlands, political theologian and lecturer in Catholic Studies at Durham University, and some of her PhD students with us this week, as well as some other PhD students who are also practitioners in urban ministry. This was the second conversation as we looked at Liberation theology – in the … Read more