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The Spiritual Poverty of the West

Can African Christianity illuminate what the West has lost?…
26/09/2024
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A Personal Church for the Common Good

True solutions to social problems come from within communities, not from outside institutions, but from the people themselves…
06/09/2024
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Always Open

Too many churches are keeping their doors closed. An open church can fulfil an important role in the rebuilding of our common life…
27/03/2024
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Day of Transformation

Things are happening in the neighbourhood – God is at work in and through our relationships…
08/07/2024
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The importance of connection

On the surface this is a story about how relationship with each other and with God makes it easier to face the natural reality of death. But it is also a story about the…
30/03/2024
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All hands to the parish pump

Spirituality is not a personal holiness project. Churches are called to be places that irrigate relationships and which mediate between the realms…
23/02/2024
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Housing and land: a common good approach

How can Catholic social teaching help to tackle the housing crisis and reform land use?…
31/08/2019
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From space to place

In an era of social fragmentation, how should the church pursue mission? Martin Robinson advises starting by listening to the neighbourhood…
19/02/2020
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Where the Kingdom is

Middle class church is offputting to poor people. Read about a leader who decided to do church differently.…
12/02/2022
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The soil of community

Alan Roxburgh advises church leaders to let go of programmes and listen to the life of the Spirit in the neighbourhood…
06/02/2022

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