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Our Winter Hook Lecture 2021 brought to you with the title of – Thinking about Faith and the Climate, What do we want to sustain? Delivered by Dr Carmody Grey live at Leeds Minster was insightful and thought provoking. This fascinating lecture both inspired, questioned and challenged our thinking and provides reflections post COP26.

We were delighted to have Bronte Poetry Award winner Diane Pacitti join us for poetry and a book club discussion on The Ungrateful Refugee. Here Diane shares some of her poems with us in the context of the themes around the book which are from her anthology, Dark Angelic Mills written while she was poet in residence at Bradford Cathedral. The collection explores the changing role of the church in a multi-faith and often forcefully secular society where it can no longer speak with its deep-rooted authority. Diane Pacitti’s poetry envisages a new role of living more truly the presence of Christ and speaks directly to concerns we are challenged with in the present day.

We were delighted to welcome Tasia Scrutton, Associate Professor at University of Leeds at the School for Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, at our event for Mental Health Awareness Week 2021.  If you missed the event or want to listen again (it’s well worth hearing twice) here’s a recording of Tasia talking about some of the possibilities and pitfalls when considering the connection between nature and mental health from a Christian theological perspective.

We are delighted that this lecture planned for 2020 (postponed owing to the pandemic) was given by Revd Dr Frances Ward, talking on “A New Moral Ecology for a World where Climate Catastrophe is Real”.  The videos below show:

1.  The lecture

2.  The Q&A session facilitated by Professor Rachel Muers and Dr Helen Reid.

The Hook Lecture stimulates debate around an issue of faith in the context of Leeds. The event is organised jointly by Leeds Church Institute, Leeds Minster and School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science at the University of Leeds.

Here is a list of books Frances mentioned or quoted in lecture.