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Meet Your MP, Politics and Elections · 15 January, 2020

Meet Your Newly Elected MP

⁶ This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour. 8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except …

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Uncategorised · 6 January, 2020

2020 Vision

Many of us will have just returned back to work after the Christmas break, hopefully well-rested and feeling ready for the new calendar year. Many of us will have used holiday time to reflect, and many of us will have spent time thinking ahead and anticipating what this next year might …

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Blog, Meet Your MP, Politics and Elections, Poverty and Inequality, Universal Credit · 19 July, 2019

Meet Your MP – Adventures in Asking & Action (Day 5)

“Listened well… but didn’t change her view” This week we are celebrating some of the stories of congregations from our churches who have taken up the challenge to meet their local MP. Each congregation was able to demonstrate their concerns for the local area, express their hopes and dreams, …

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Blog, Environment, Meet Your MP, Politics and Elections · 18 July, 2019

Meet Your MP – Adventures in Asking & Action (Day 4)

“Our MP asked a question in the House of Commons on our behalf” This week we are celebrating some of the stories of congregations from our churches who have taken up the challenge to meet their local MP. Each congregation was able to demonstrate their concerns for the local area, express …

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Asylum and Migration, Blog, Meet Your MP · 17 July, 2019

Meet Your MP – Adventures in Asking & Action (Day 3)

A deepening relationship and a letter of support This week we are celebrating some of the stories of congregations from our churches who have taken up the challenge to meet their local MP. Each congregation was able to demonstrate their concerns for the local area, express their hopes and …

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Asylum and Migration, Blog, Meet Your MP · 16 July, 2019

Meet Your MP – Adventures in Asking & Action (Day 2)

“Our MP helped increase the places offered to Syrian refugees.” This week we are celebrating some of the stories of congregations from our churches who have taken up the challenge to meet their local MP. Each congregation was able to demonstrate their concerns for the local area, express …

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Blog, Meet Your MP, Politics and Elections · 15 July, 2019

Meet Your MP – Adventures in Asking & Action (Day 1)

“I’ll help serve breakfast!” This week we are celebrating some of the stories of congregations from our churches who have taken up the challenge to meet their local MP. Each congregation was able to demonstrate their concerns for the local area, express their hopes and dreams, and invite …

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Meet Your MP, Politics and Elections, Universal Credit · 18 October, 2018

Meet Your MP: Using our voices

In a guest blog, Revd Katy Thomas, a Methodist minister from Wilmslow in Cheshire, writes about her experience of arranging a meeting with her MP last month. At the Methodist Women in Britain Conference earlier this year, Rachel Lampard from the Joint Public Issues Team spoke about Universal …

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