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Global Apartheid and the era of climate breakdown

Warning: currently only in draft form, suggested revisions welcome. Not long ago, I read an article which suggested target-setting for … More

climate breakdown, climate change, climate justice, global apartheid, global justice, global poor, global warming, justice, poverty

Lent Reflections

I stand outside the barred church doors/ hammering with my fists/ while around me/ the world dies.

bonhoeffer, brokenness, change, confession, conflict, courage, evil, gideon heugh, Lent, poverty, reflection, reflections, wake up

Hostile means Hostile

UK Immigration rules and injustice

asylum, citizenship, freedom, freedom of movement, hostile environment, immigration, injustice, justice, politics, poverty, social justice

Fighting Climate Change is Part of the Gospel

Continued from the previous post, the focus here is the theological implications of creation’s place in the Biblical Narrative. What does the gospel have to say about the recent IPCC report?

2018, climate change, environment, future, gospel, jesus, justice, kingdom, poverty, redemption, social justice, tension

“the poor will always be with us”

Jesus’ anointing at Bethany: the heralding of a new spiritual, economic and political empire.

2018, easter, impoverished, jesus, Jubilee, justice, King, king of the jews, kingdom of god, matthew, matthew 26, poverty, social justice, spring

Dorothy Day – “Jesus, they have no wine”

Selected quotes from ‘Dorothy Day: Selected Writings’

2017, catholicism, community, Dorothy Day, holy folly, love, poverty, wine, winter

To be poor, is to be unfree

Thoughts on poverty and freedom.

2017, autumn, citizenship, freedom, immigration, injustice, liberty, philosophy, political philosophy, poverty

What am I entitled to?

What does a Christian understanding of moral responsibility look like?

2017, bob jeffrey, entitlement, giving, John, money, morality, poverty, responsibility, summer

Irresistible Revolution – Shane Claiborne

The challenge to love in the glamorous sense of big dreams, visions of fighting injustice and of bringing light to darkness, but doing so ready and alert that this will necessarily involve the gritty sense of long days and tired feet.

2017, book, book review, irresistible revolution, John, mark, poverty, Shane Claiborne, winter

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