The financial crash of 2008 hit as I began secondary school, and I grew up under the policies of austerity which followed. To a large extent, there has been consensus across the political spectrum about […]
Month: April 2019
Easter – Can we rejoice?
Roll back the stone.
Holy Week – Suffering God
At the centre of Christian faith is the memory of suffering. This is Holy Week, when Christians recall the last days of Jesus’s life, “in whose body was named all the violence of the world, […]
How bad is Climate Change?
I remember doing my GCSEs and writing pat answers about the greenhouse effect. Little did I know that in my first year out of education I would see leading international climate lawyer Farhana Yamin, one […]
Thinking about Home
I have been thinking about Home ever since I got asked in the Praxis One course to complete the sentence ‘I want the story of my life to be the story of someone who….‘ The […]
Lent Reflections
I stand outside the barred church doors/ hammering with my fists/ while around me/ the world dies.
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