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Seek the welfare of the city, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare, you will find your welfare – Jeremiah 29.7
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I had a profound recognition of how our faith calls us to build relationships.
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Common Good thinking shows us the causes of fractures in our society and how to heal divides
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What’s happening in the Common Good world:
1 week agoDeeply moving piece by @michael_merrick on how the expansion of higher education - whilst benefiting some (like me) people and areas - has scarred society, geographies and inter-generational relationships michaelmerrick.me/2019/03...
2 weeks agoWhat we can learn today from John Clare, the Romantic-era 'peasant poet' whose life and work stand as an elegy to the landscape, ecology and way of life destroyed by the Enclosure Acts. unherd.com/2020/01/john-c…
3 weeks agoTo be fair at the end of this decade I can say it went pretty much as I argued it would in Red Tory published in 2010 - right culturally, left economically: a double repudiation of both economic and social liberalismtwitter.com/CasMudde/...
4 weeks ago"Many millions of people thought of us as condescending & duplicitous when we thought they were stupid and ignorant. It is no wonder that the marriage is over ... It is us and not them who need to be forgiven" -Maurice Glasman medium....
4 weeks agoThis analysis from @GoodwinMJ is bang on, and should be compulsory viewing for every Labour activist. It is precisely what a small number of us in the party have been arguing for the a long time. But we were ignored and derided by people...
1 month agoThis by @TimandraHarknes is very good. Britain is more fractured than divided. With @pollytoynbee @DouglasCarswell @GoodwinMJ @ProfLRobinson @p_surridge @BobbyDuffyKings @PeterTatchell @_RebeccaMordan @AjmalMasroor @michael_merrick @Poli...