Reflecting on the Great Dock Strike of 1889, we explore the covenantal relationship between Cardinal Manning and the dockers of London’s East End
What does it look like to be the People of God in this time of deep change? We believe it involves upholding what it means to be a human person, building relationships with our neighbours in the local and putting Common Good principles into practice. Explore our stories to find out more.
Angie Allgood relates vital lessons about belonging and connection learned through her friendship with homeless people
Jide Ehizele calls Christians to resist mutually hostile rivalries and recover confidence in the Christian moral imagination
Charity has expanded to meet growing need. But poverty is getting worse. How should Christian social action respond? A report explores 3 critical questions
As our Leaving Egypt podcast celebrates 70 episodes, we explore the local church as a hub of relationship, formation and economic life
John Clifton examines the drivers of discontent and meditates on how Christ would respond
In this story, Michael Merrick addresses the estrangement between the Church and working class communities, calling the Church to an examination of conscience.
John Battle explains how he has built the Common Good not through grand gestures, but through quiet, consistent, presence.
Jide Ehizele’s sense of vocation is drawing him deeper int the local, into a share of civic and spiritual belonging
True solutions to social problems come from within communities, not from outside institutions, but from the people themselves
The politics and theology of place: its significance for church mission and for social peace
Sally Mann argues that there is something heroic about engaging with place for the long term by staying put
A story of incarnational life and Christian solidarity in a post industrial Cornish town
Spirituality is not a personal holiness project. Churches are called to be places that irrigate relationships and which mediate between the realms
What does it means to be a follower of Jesus in fraternity with our neighbours?
Shaping a community of hope: God is calling us to join with the Spirit in an emerging story that will reweave the life of a desiccated world
The ancient tradition of pilgrimage is an antidote to individualism and a countercultural sign pointing us to the Common Good
Middle class church is offputting to poor people. Read about a leader who decided to do church differently.
In the spirit of anticipation, amidst the unravelling, a church turns decline into renewal
As the urban pressure to be ultra-mobile undermines the Christian call to place and proximity, we explore ways to “re-neighbour” the parish
How a posture of listening in the neighbourhood led to an unlikely relationship and revitalised the life of a local church
An inspirational story of church leaders’ collaboration with civic partners to keep and attract jobs to communities
Why did so few see Brexit and Trump coming? Jenny Sinclair explores the underlying reasons and how the churches should respond
We cannot liberate ourselves from the natural world and still flourish. We must cherish memory and place.
How neighbours working together transformed their neighbourhood with a little help from the local church
Grace Davie explores how cathedrals can be places to inspire a sense of belonging, where our aspirations for the Common Good find expression
Archbishop Emeritus Patrick Kelly confesses his role in perpetuating a management culture that has affected the character of the church
What do we lose when we live and worship in different places? Sam Tomlin writes about what happened when he decided to walk to church
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