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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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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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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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Feeding the roots

More than just buildings, churches have a role in the local ecology, and like trees, their roots need feeding, says Andrew Rumsey…
19/11/2021
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Maranatha

In the spirit of anticipation, amidst the unravelling, a church turns decline into renewal…
18/12/2022
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Christian Witness in the Unravelling

Jenny Sinclair explores how Christians can offer faithful witness when familiar social structures are coming apart…
02/10/2026
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From Service to Communion

Jenny Sinclair makes the case for moving from service to communion by recovering vocation, reciprocity and the intermediary institutions that hold civic life together…
01/10/2026
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The relationship between church and society

Jenny Sinclair shares her personal discovery of the common good within Catholic Social Thought and why it is vital for the emerging era…
01/03/2025
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Why is it all falling apart?

Jenny Sinclair and Fr Toby Lees OP of Radio Maria discuss the work of Together for the Common Good…
04/03/2025

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