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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Saturday, 9 November 2013

And that's why I wear a white poppy: on our failure of moral imagination

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I've worn a white poppy for a few years now. I can't make any grand claim to be radical, pioneering, trend-setting - it's someth...

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Monday, 7 October 2013

War isn't a video game: witnessing (against) drone warfare

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Today a couple of us from Hodge Hill went on a day trip to Lincoln. Not a pilgrimage to its majestic cathedral, towering over the city, but ...

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, 9 May 2011

What do we do now?

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(notes from a sermon preached in Hodge Hill, 8th May 2011 – on Luke 24:13-35) In Jewish tradition (in the Talmud), as the Israelites escape...

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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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