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Britain and Europe

Posted on January 31, 2021September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

“How often do you go to the mainland?” asked the Christian Aid Partner from India, on a visit to the UK. It took a moment to realise what he meant. After all, we rarely think of Britain as a small offshore island. More common is the (alleged) 1940s newspaper headline: “Fog in Channel- Continent cut…

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Black Lives Matter (2)

Posted on July 31, 2020September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

From “BLACK AND BRITISH: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY” BY DAVID OLUSOGA, (pages 491-6) In June 1946 the British Cabinet Manpower Working Party determined that in order to meet her post war target, Britain would need 940,000 additional workers. By the end of the year they had raised their estimate to 1,346,000. To help fill this enormous…

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Black Lives Matter

Posted on July 31, 2020September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

…. “and so do white lives”, someone will instantly reply. Of course they do, but the point is that when some lives have been valued less, justice demands action to redress that inequality. We may applaud the present government’s intention to “level up” the North (even if we question its analysis and proposals), and no-one…

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Piketty’s proposals

Posted on May 28, 2020September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

The last mailing summarised Thomas Piketty’s account of how we got into our present position. This looks at his final chapter, where he puts forward proposals for a better economy and society in the future. He says: “New forms of social ownership will need to be developed, along with new ways of apportioning voting rights…

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Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology

Posted on May 28, 2020September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

My Lent reading this year has been nothing explicitly “religious”: it was Thomas Piketty’s new book “Capitalism and Ideology”, published in French last Autumn and translated into English earlier this year. Though not religious or “spiritual” I would argue that it is at least as theological as some other books I was urged to read….

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Stories Worth Telling

Posted on December 6, 2018July 31, 2020 by The Meeting Place

Click here to download a copy of Stories Worth Telling

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Arctic Amplification

Posted on October 1, 2018September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation

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Food Policies

Posted on January 29, 2018September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

Summaries of two Food reports

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European Christian Convention

Posted on November 13, 2017September 20, 2023 by The Meeting Place

a proposal for a EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN CONVENTION

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God as Warlord

Posted on October 10, 2014December 9, 2018 by The Meeting Place

This is a translation (from the German) of a study of the reactions of Austrian religious leaders to the outbreak of the First World War.  Similar responses could be found in the comments, sermons and pronouncements of religious leaders in all the belligerent nations of 1914-18.

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