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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Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Waiting for dawn to break (Midnight Mass sermon 2013)

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[a bit of a rough and ready draft, with deep gratitude to Julian Dobson, whose brilliant blogpost ‘A truce and a common: a Christmas story’...

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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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...

Monday, 8 November 2010

Do the poor have a right to live in expensive areas?

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Yes. That’s the catchy headline of a discussion piece on the BBC News website ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11674864 ) that caught my...

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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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