Showing posts with label government cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government cuts. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Beyond 'glass half full' - the politics of ABCD

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For a couple of years now I've been a passionate advocate for asset-based approaches to community development (ABCD). I believe in ABCD ...
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Sunday, 29 June 2014

#OccupyWestminster and Common Worship

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A few weeks ago I was in a room in Westminster Abbey from which a previous Archbishop of Canterbury was arrested and taken to be executed. I...
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Sunday, 14 July 2013

The Good Samaritan & the FoodBank: it's not about 'do', it's about 'who'

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I was recently privileged, along with my sister and brother clergy from Birmingham Diocese, to listen to the Director of Christian Aid, Lore...
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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...