Posts Tagged ‘ justice ’

Standing in the place of Privilege

Standing in the place of Privilege

This idea began with the most basic and necessary of human needs, the loo! And why not! It is often when we are at our most vulnerable, backs against the wall, cornered like a rat that we are able as part of our in-built human instinct to react, call it fight or flight if you like, but I would like to think that this is a place from which we can begin to be creative. I’m not of course talking now of needing the loo, there is only one way to react to that – being British – and...

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Little Saint nick(ed)

Well, not quite, but trying to deliver presents to children at Yarlswood detention centre, St. Nicolas and Rev’d Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey were stopped from entering to deliver the gifts to those children held there who the Government has said should only ever be held as “a last resort” see BBC report Read more here and watch the video of St. Nicolas attempting to deliver the presents.

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Weight of the World

I know it’s not good to dwell on impossible questions, however, there may be an answer to this one.  I don’t think it would be easy to get though, it would mean everyone being honest, no, really honest!! So, What is the weight of the world?  Not its mass, that, according to google is: mass of Earth = 5.9742 × 1024 kilograms What I was thinking about was the weight, and wondered if it was proportional to the amount of pressure we put on the earth:  Perhaps the harder we stand, the greater the weight on the world, no...

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  • Image of God

    During a prison visit this week, the chaplain recounted a story of how he had looked into the eyes of a sex offender and seen the face of Christ!! It had the impact it deserved!

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