Dealing with darkness

What will the history books say about this time? I keep wondering how this strange time will be recorded. How can a page in a GCSE textbook reflect the complex emotions we are all feeling? The darkness of grief, loneliness of isolation and confusion of an uncertain future. We are all desperately searching for meaning …

Practical pandemic tips

Humans are sociable creatures, we are interdependent in so many ways; within households, communities and today globally more than ever before. Like many others I am working from home and nearly all of my outside work activities have been cancelled, postponed or moved online. My world, like yours, has within hours become so much narrower. …

Climate Change: heartache and hope

We may not be able to meet in person at the end of the month to share in our grief and hope for our beautiful planet but I hope in these strange times we can still be a community sharing together. Below I have put together some resources you can use on your own or …

Holy Communion

I dislike the term “self-isolate”. We don’t want anyone to isolate or exclude anyone. Of course we want everyone to take care of themselves and others. We are all used to the idea of staying at home for the sake of health. We want to watch over one another with love. The commandment to love …

Asylum Seeker Rights: workshop in a blog

As with all non-essential gatherings our ‘Asylum Seeker Rights’ everyday activism event had to be postponed. In these strange and isolated days we are not powerless, these could be times of learning, reflecting, preparing and even taking some small actions on important topics. So here is the workshop we had planned in blog form, although …

Activism and Contemplation: two sides of the same coin?

Leeds has a fantastic activist community. People are fighting for change on many fronts: climate change, asylum seeker and refugee rights, air quality, the airport expansion, inequality, mental health, I could go on. When I started in my role as Development Officer for the Leeds Methodist Mission I was inspired by the passion of the …

Ethical Fashion

We had another fantastic Everyday Activism event in January, co-hosted with LCI. Following from the success of Low Carbon Christmas last year we explored Ethical Fashion with a lovely group last week. The group shared their top tips and learnt from one another. We continued our theme of positive activism and everyone at the event …

Low Carbon Christmas

We had a fantastic evening last night at LCI discussing how we could have a lower carbon Christmas. Ed Carlisle shared some of the research around the climate crisis and lots of ideas about how we can get clued up but also stay hopeful that change can happen. He then shared his top tips for …

Update November 2019

Hello, I (Anna) am now four months into my role as Development Officer at Leeds Methodist Mission in the city centre. A lot of my time so far has been spent meeting people to discern the areas of opportunity and spaces where we as Methodists have something unique to offer. I wanted to update you …