Send us a textAn audio sample taken from the 'Justice, Peace and Reconciliation' Course. JUSTICE, PEACE & RECONCILIATION COURSEREGISTER TODAYThis dynamic learning environment aims to equip 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 is a partnership between Leeds School of Theology and Lighthouse West Yorkshire following the success of the Mission, Theology & Ministry for the Margins course.TopicsDiscipleship and JusticeJesus & the Peaceable KingdomChristian Hope and Forgiveness : Keys to Healing in a Hurting WorldTending the Garden: A Biblical Theology of CreationEnacting the Kingdom in a World of Climate BreakdownEvery Tribe and Every Tongue: Racial ReconciliationSpeaking Truth to Power: An Exploration of the OT ProphetsThe Eagle and the Lamb: Revelation’s Call to AllegianceFaith in the Public Square: Christian Activism and Prophetic WitnessTutorsRev’d Jon Swales MBE 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.Katie Dowds is Senior Pastor at Lighthouse, a Christian community for those who have been battered and bruised by the storms of life. A contemplative activist 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, Proximity and ISAAC. She really loves Jesus and is hungry to see his Kingdom come.

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