Hook Lecture 2024: Turning key moments into movements for change

Turning Key Moments Into Movements For Change: The Hook Lecture 2024

Turning Key Moments Into Movements For Change: The Hook Lecture 2024

Richard Reddie – researcher, author and Director of Justice and Inclusion for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland – on the ongoing challenge to effect real racial justice in Church and society

Location: Leeds Minster, 2-6 Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ

This year the Hook Lecture on faith and racial justice will be given by Richard Reddie.

How can we as Christians turn key moments in our collective consciousness into true movements for transformation in Church and society?

Racial justice is everyone's business. Racial justice is unfinished business.

This summer saw racist undertones and culture wars in British society turn into overt violence and intimidation. How can moments like this act as a wake up call to church and society? And how can the church respond?

Richard Reddie will explore where we go from here, and how building strong cohesive communities will help us turn these key moments into movements for real change.

Richard Reddie is a researcher and cultural commentator on the intersections of religion and race, author of works including Race for Justice, and Abolition! The struggle to abolish slavery in the British colonies. He is Director of Inclusion and Justice for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, with extensive experience in ecumenical movements for change.

After the talk there will be an opportunity for Q&A led by Professor Johanna Stiebert. Johanna is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds. Much of her work focuses on the dynamic between religion and social justice.

There will be a welcome from the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung, and from Canon Paul Maybury, Rector of Leeds.

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This event is jointly organised by Leeds Church Institute, Leeds Minster, and the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds.