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We are excited to announce an upcoming learning environment exploring and equipping the church to engage the contemporary world in justice, peacemaking and reconciliation. Through a mixture of live lectures, discussion groups and assigned homework, this introductory course will particularly focus on a Christlike and prophetic response to the interrelated issues of climate breakdown, violence and conflict and racial injustice. This course will be a partnership between Leeds School of Theology and Lighthouse West Yorkshire following the success of the Mission, Theology & Ministry for the Margins course.

Topics Include

Jesus & the Peaceable Kingdom

Hope and Forgiveness : Keys to Healing in a Hurting World

Tending the Garden: A Biblical Theology of Creation

Enacting the Kingdom in a World of Climate Breakdown

Every Tribe and Every Tongue: Racial Reconciliation

Speaking Truth to Power: An Exploration of the OT Prophets

The Eagle and the Lamb: Revelation’s Call to Allegiance

Faith in the Public Square: Christian Activism and Prophetic Witness

Tutors

Rev’d Jon Swales lives in Leeds and is married with 4 children. He heads up Lighthouse and serves as a Team Vicar at St George’s Leeds. Jon also teaches Old Testament at St Hild Theological College and, as an activist, has participated in and led a number of peaceful protests, actions, and vigils for the climate and ecological emergency. Jon is passionate for the church, within the context of climate breakdown, to wake up to its calling to be the justice-shaped people of God.

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Katie Dowds is Senior Pastor at Lighthouse, a Christian community for those who have been battered and bruised by the storms of life. A reflective practitioner and passionate communicator, she sits on the Advisory Board at JustLove and has led seminars and performed spoken word poetry at national conferences such as Soul Survivor and ISAAC. She really loves Jesus and is hungry to see his Kingdom come.

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Course Delivery

We are excited to be able to offer this course online allowing it be accessed by students who live nationwide. Each month the online content will include a mixture of lectures, seminars, Q+A and interviews. In addition to this there will be assigned home learning including readings, podcasts and other medium.

Dates & Time

04 OCT 21

01 NOV 21

06 DEC 21

10 JAN 22

07 FEB 22

07 MAR 22

04 APR 22

09 MAY 22

13 JUN 22

04 JUL 22

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Cost
The course costs £205 for the year.

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