This estate we're in

Reflections from a parish priest, dad and so-called theologian, living on an urban 'outer estate' in the West Midlands, on day-to-day life, faith, 'community', politics... and whatever else happens to turn up!

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Thursday, 2 May 2013

Children, Community & Sustainability in tough times (Part 2)

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In Part 1 , I outlined our 'instinctive' approaches - shaped by our current social and political climate and its dominant language o...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Children, Community & Sustainability in tough times (Part 1)

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Here's a fuller version of my talk last week to the Christian Child Care Forum. (The link to the PowerPoint slides is here .) Thi...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Children, Community & Sustainability in tough times

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I was asked to 'do some theology' for the Christian Child Care Forum annual conference, which met yesterday in Birmingham, focusing ...

Sunday, 14 April 2013

We need a new kind of Opposition

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"[Community Organising] is best understood as a means by which to formulate and embody a contradiction to any given instance of injus...

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

'Social Inclusion', 'squeezed' and 'broken' middles

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Partly for the PhD, and partly because life and research are flowing into each other a lot at the moment, I've been doing a bit of think...

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Jobs, a ‘local economy’, improvisation and… church?!

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I am perhaps the last person qualified to write about jobs. I have one – of a kind. I have also spent a small fraction of my life on Jobseek...

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Revd Al Barrett: Firs & Bromford Estate, East Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom; Since September 2010 I've been Anglican priest ('Vicar' to the rest of the world) for the parish of Hodge Hill, East Birmingham. Among other things, that means being 'present' around the place, making friends, listening lots, helping others reflect, and nurturing a church community that is committed to 'growing loving community with all our neighbours'. In 2017 I finished a PhD developing a 'radically receptive' political theology / missiology in the urban margins (now published as 'Interrupting the Church's Flow') and in 2020 I co-wrote 'Being Interrupted: Re-imagining the Church's Mission from the Outside, In' with Ruth Harley (SCM Press). I'm continuing to write, and also do bits of facilitating, speaking and listening in the wider world beyond Hodge Hill.

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