“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” is an adage which holds true in many settings, politics not completely excluded. Key to making change, is understanding who has the power to make that change. Of course the biggest decisions are ultimately made in parliament, by MPs (although as …
Peace and Pandemics
What could COVID-19 teach us about responding to the threat of nuclear weapons? How might Christians respond? It is widely acknowledged that COVID-19 has accentuated and laid bare many pre-existing issues within society, and has set a precedent for governments taking significant action when a …
Prayer for the Black Lives Matter movement
Loving God, As the sins of systemic racism and police brutality rear their heads once more,meet us in our anger, sorrow, and frustration.Guard us from indifference, ignorance and silence. As Black lives continue to be taken too soon, and because all were named and loved, we lift names …
“God has so composed the body, giving greater honour to the part that lacked it.” Thanking our #EssentialHeroes
Many phrases have entered our common parlance over recent weeks: self-isolation, social distancing, epidemiology, daily state-sanctioned outdoor exercise. Chief among them is key/essential workers. The government have said that the only reason you should leave the house to go to work is if …
Should the Church be ‘Woke’?
Woke-ness, white privilege, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, mansplaining, ‘cancel culture’, #MeToo, micro-aggressions, tokenism. These terms, and the arguments which go along with them, have often come to be grouped together under the term “identity politics”. On a basic level, …
Introducing Cameron
Present Transitions I’ve been forced to think a lot about transitions recently. I’ve moved house three times in the last three months, graduated from university, moved to London having lived up North my whole life, and now I find myself starting my first “proper” job. Like most big changes, …