Photo by MART PRODUCTION on Pexels.com I have worked for a variety of homeless charities for over 20 years, so generally not much surprises me when it comes to the reality of poverty and destitution. However, this week I was out doing a street count in London to assess how many people are actually sleeping on the… Continue reading I’m agnostic, but if it wasn’t for Christians many more homeless people would die on the streets – by Paul Anderson
Category: Politics
Holy rows: why disputes between Church and Government will increase
Photo by Altaf Shah on Pexels.com This weekend saw another avalanche of media coverage about a row between the Church and the government. This time it relates to the refugee crisis. The Bishops have accused the government of dragging its feet and not responding adequately to their offers to help mobilise the churches. Stephen Cotterill, Bishop of Chelmsford, said:… Continue reading Holy rows: why disputes between Church and Government will increase
The boy on the beach: when the political becomes personal
1972, a Vietnamese girl, Kim Phúc, burnt by napalm, flees naked and crying from her bombed village. 1989, a solitary pro-democracy protester resolutely stands in front of a line of tanks in Tiannamen Square and blocks their path. Both were just ordinary people out of thousands caught up in the turmoil and crisis of war and political… Continue reading The boy on the beach: when the political becomes personal
We are the problem: Western militarism created this ‘refugee crisis’ – by Alan Storkey
Photo by Ahmed akacha on Pexels.com Home is where the heart is for most of the world’s population. People do not readily leave home, family, jobs, friends and their familiar life to tramp across borders and take their lives in hock in perilous crossings. Our public reflection on this issue is so shallow. We freeze… Continue reading We are the problem: Western militarism created this ‘refugee crisis’ – by Alan Storkey
Help needed: I am a Labour member and I haven’t a clue who to vote for as leader
Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com I have been a member of the Labour party since 1994 when I was in the final year of my Social Work degree. I almost joined when John Smith was leader but it was Tony Blair's ascent to the top job which inspired me to take the step. For the first time I felt genuine… Continue reading Help needed: I am a Labour member and I haven’t a clue who to vote for as leader
All right-thinking people should now boycott The Daily Mail
Last year, I wrote a post arguing that Christians should lead the way in a boycott The Daily Mail due to its campaign against overseas aid. Today, The Mail has descended further into the pit of the worst type of journalism with this incredible election headline: It is simply incredible that any newspaper could use the… Continue reading All right-thinking people should now boycott The Daily Mail
‘He was so nearly a good man’: Tony Blair on Pontius Pilate
Tony Blair's Christian faith is most commonly associated with a comment which was not even made by him. It was Blair's press secretary, Alistair Campbell, who famously said 'We don't do God' due to his concerns about how the language of faith is so easily misconstrued. But, in contrast to the banal nonsense that David… Continue reading ‘He was so nearly a good man’: Tony Blair on Pontius Pilate
David Cameron’s Easter Message: wrong on so many levels
Photo by Harry Shum on Pexels.com David Cameron has written an Easter message to Christians. It has been published by Premier Christianity as 'an exclusive' which they summarise as 'Prime Minister David Cameron speaks up on the significance of the Christian faith.' Danny Webster, a moderate and sensible commentator on faith in public life, is savage in… Continue reading David Cameron’s Easter Message: wrong on so many levels
Personal and political: a basis for a more radical theology
1) The relationship between people and society This diagram shows the basic relationship at the core of all sociology: between people and the society in which they live. Each person is an individual who lives within a social environment. This is the way God created life to be, we are social beings made for community. The nature… Continue reading Personal and political: a basis for a more radical theology
Left-wing Bishops? The real problem is Jesus himself – by Harry S.B. Chomley
Photo by Mike Bird on Pexels.com Quite rightly, there has been an outcry over the latest bit of propaganda issued by the Guardian-readers-at-prayer otherwise known as the Church of England Bishops. Their 'pastoral letter' issued yesterday ahead of the election was a thinly-veiled support for the left-wing parties. I am not much of a believer, but… Continue reading Left-wing Bishops? The real problem is Jesus himself – by Harry S.B. Chomley
