On May 9th (Ascension Day) we met with the day’s newspapers and prayers, and then discussed the meaning of the Ascension for us today.
Category: Debates Archive
Thinking about Easter
“If they kill me, I shall rise again in the Salvadoran people” said Oscar Romero.
Putting an End to Debt Crises
These are the notes for the Debate on Debt (Saturday, March 2nd, 2013) led by John Nightingale:
Permaculture Debate
On Wednesday, January 30th, Margaret Linggood spoke about Permaculture: Permanent (ie Sustainable) Culture.
Operation Noah Declaration
On Ash Wednesday 2012 Operation Noah issued this Call to the Church to take Climate Change and Global Warming seriously.
Accompaniment in Palestine and Israel
The work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel
Yarl’s Wood Befrienders
On Tuesday 13th September 2011 Heather Jones, the Co-ordinator of Yarl’s Wood Befrienders, spoke about their work. Yarl’s Wood is the Immigration Removal Centre at Twinwoods, north of Bedford, and houses women the United Kingdom Border Agency wishes to deport. Click http://www.ywbefrienders.org/ to see more about the work of the Befrienders.
Where have all the morals gone?
On October 20th, 2009, Stephen Heap led a session on the theme ‘Where have all the morals gone? Trying to decide what is good in Britain today’ The idea for the session came from the 2009 Reith Lectures, given by Professor Michael Sandel, a professor and political philosopher at Harvard University.
A Justice that Heals?
On March 9th, 2010 Revd His Honour Peter Morrell spoke about “Restorative Justice”. He was a Circuit Judge at Northampton and Leicester Crown Courts until his retirement. In his view our justice system is failing, especially because of the resort to prison sentences for many offenders (especially young people) who are not a danger to…
The Man who Stopped the Desert
“The Man who Stopped the Desert” is a film about farming in Burkina Faso, which we watched on Monday May 23rd, 2011. You can read a summary here http://www.1080films.co.uk/project-mwsd.htm Read on for details about the country of Burkina Faso: