SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY
Jul 9
From my Flickr.
Wish, Life, Love: The Search for Meaning
Oct 11
I was wandering around the supermarket when I spotted this set of tea light holders. This was after I had visited The Works Publisher’s Outlet and looked at a shelf of crystal infused self help books that were anything but. We search for deeper meaning. Even divorced from it’s context I think I prefer “Faith,
Wage Inequality
May 12
It suits the current political climate to perpetuate a narrative that poor people are poor because they don’t work hard. The growing gulf between the haves and the have nots in our world is bad for society. Monkeys just do it faster.
The Invisible People
Aug 12
There is a fashion at the moment for videoing yourself doing unusual things and uploading it to youtube. They are everywhere but Upworthy share these types of video at an almost hourly rate. Often they highlight issues within our society that should cause us great shame like the plight of the poor or homeless. Here
Church of England Clergy support the Labour Party?!
Mar 6
It has been an interesting week for Church of England clergy and the poor in the newspapers. Revd Simon Cross is undertaking a 40 day hunger strike fast through lent to highlight the plight of the poor in the United Kingdom. In a national move to mark the beginning of lent, 27 Bishops penned an
International Aid
Mar 5
I don’t think I need to write an article about our international aid budget do I?
The Big Benefits Row
Feb 6
I’m always cutting edge and up to date, never several days behind. No no no. I recorded The Big Benefits Row the other night because I’d had a bad day. A well informed individual from the local area was using Facebook to inform everyone that Foodbanks were just a way for “trendy, dogooder, left wing,
Growth and Inequality
Feb 5
Last night I watched QI and it was all about happiness. The wonderful thing about QI is that every 30 seconds you have your perceptions challenged. You look at the TV and say “Eh, what, really“? What made me do the double take last night? Stephen Fry said that there is a 10% wider gap
Equals at God’s Table
Aug 8
There is something wonderful about the way George Guiver CR embodies his vocation as a monk in a way that enables him to speak so freely about the nature of The Church TM. I’m currently reading his new book Vision upon Vision: Processes of Change and Renewal in Christian Worship. I was so struck by
Let’s Fly The Jolly Roger!
Jun 20
Of course Christianity is not political so we’re not allowed to make a stand against oppression.
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