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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
We are dedicated to spiritual and civic renewal.
What’s happening in the Common Good world:
The Desert
Common Good Schools: Lent 2024
2024 Lecture Series #01
The Way of Peace
Common Good Schools: December 2023
Justice and Peace
Whose Justice?
From “Me” to “We”
The Meaning of Good
The Italian Connection
A Civilisation of Love
Common Good Schools: Pentecost 2023
Freedom
Common Good Schools: Easter 2023
Resistance
Common Good Schools: Lent 23
Taking responsibility to build the Common Good
A good neighbour
All hands to the parish pump
Pavilion
Ice cream social and curbside library
Pilgrimages of Grace
My hate-affair with economics
Maranatha
Becoming one family
Podcast and Forum
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Our Leaving Egypt podcast, co-hosted by Jenny Sinclair and Alan Roxburgh, explores with guests what it means to be God's people in an age of unravelling - by reading the signs of the times and by sharing grassroots stories
- Jenny and Alan hold the monthly Leaving Egypt Discussion Forum for paid subscribers - a space to meet each other and share experience
Common Good Schools Lent challenge - PRAYER. Would you like to join us?
Our free Lent resource can be found at http://www.commongoodschools.co.uk
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A Good Neighbour
After pastoring for over twenty years at a large city church, and fulfilling a range of senior leadership positions, Karen Reed took the risk twelve years ago to live as an urban worker, joining with what God is doing.
https://togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/stories/a-good-neighbour
Our Director Jenny Sinclair gave a short talk to the Centesimus Annus Foundation for a workshop showcasing some of the active UK practitioners drawing on Catholic Social Teaching.
Listen or read here
https://togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/from-jenny-sinclair/catalyst-for-renewal
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Friendship with each other and with God build the common good at St Marylebone CE Bridge School
Our free Lent resource can be found at http://www.commongoodschools.co.uk
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Our latest Leading Thinkers article see's William Cavanagh argue that the nation state is like the telephone company a large bureaucratic provider of goods and services rather than the keeper of the common good.
https://lnkd.in/ej2TR6CR
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Towards the end of last year, we welcomed Sr Helen Alford to give the eighth lecture in the Lincoln Lecture series.
It was inspirational.
You can watch the lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?si=EyvUPir4gKaUSlON&v=52dJxSwEuQI&feature=youtu.be
Or listen to an audio recording here: http://togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/St-Helen-Alford-T4CG-27-November-2023.m4a
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Thought-provoking input from Jenny Sinclair @T4CG
at the launch of @CSANonline's #DoJustice campaign last week. Catch up here:
Members of #TeamCaritas were glad they could be at the launch of @CSANonline's #DoJustice
Find out more here - get involved, and get your community involved!
"Our justice tradition of right relationship – it cuts through every level. It invites all of us to be relational."
Jenny Sinclair at the launch of @CSANonline's “DoJustice” campaign.
The full audio of her contribution can be found here:
http://www.togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/from-jenny-sinclair/how-to-do-justice
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