11th July 2017 12:30 pm At the Urban Theology Unit, S1 2JB “The Servant of God in Practice” is the latest in a series of books by Deo Publishing on ‘practice interpretation ‘ and we’re delighted to be able to launch it at our UTU Summer School. Other books in…
Wednesday 12th July 2017 12:30 pm At the Urban Theology Unit, Sheffield, S1 2JB “Mission with: Something out of the ordinary” by Paul Keeble is a remarkable book that comes out of many years of intentional Christian presence in inner-city Manchester by the founder of Urban Presence who followed God’s…
We met with students of the final Birmingham University cohort together for the last time this week; a chance to reflect on the many changes we had been through together. One of the students had made her regular trip from Hamburg (losing 10 degrees centigrade in process weather-wise), another appeared…
We are really sad to be saying ‘Good bye’ to two of our staff members at UTU: Kate Thompson and Rachel O’leary. We are a small and close knit team and will feel the loss both personally and professionally. However, both insist that they aren’t ‘going’ anywhere as they are…
Each summer the Urban Theology Union work with the Ashram Community to put on a Summer School. This year the theme is Community in the New Testament and we gather from 5:30 pm 10th to 3:00 pm 12th July in Sheffield. Our Radical Christianity series of book (Sent free to…
Saturday’s Times in its ‘The last word’ (p. 31) quoted Steven Jay Gould, the palaeontologist: “A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right” This perpetuates the strongly-embedded cultural myth that Galileo was persecuted by the Church as a truth-telling…
If you’re planning to be up all night, watching the General Election results come in, here’s a handy crib sheet for you: Election Night Score Card! It’s easy to use and gives you the mostly likely swing seats (according to Survation) and the time you’ll see them come in. It shows…
Former UTU Director, Noel Irwin, reflects back on friendship, hospitality and scheming with Grace Vincent. I first met Grace Vincent in the summer of 1999 when I came over to Sheffield to attend UTU summer schools and talk with John Vincent about doing a PhD with him and UTU. Grace…
Grace was recently diagnosed with cancer and died at home on 25th May. John and her children were with her. Grace has touched many lives in UTU and in the Ashram Christian Community for the last fifty years and has been a member at the heart of UTU since it’s…
Extremists and hate-preachers like Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins are being defended by their acolytes on social media. These are people who will defend the indefensible tirelessly and their war cry is always ‘free speech’. But freedom of speech is not what they think it is. Here’s why. Freedom and…