Category: First Thursday Archive

First Thursday, May 9th, 2019

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Our first reading was Deuteronomy 7:1 to 9, where the people recently set free from slavery in Egypt are commanded to commit genocide on the inhabitants of Canaan, their new “Promised” Land. It was an injunction faithfully followed by Europeans, who similarly saw themselves as “God’s People”, when they invaded and settled in the Americas…

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First Thursday, March 7th, 2019

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Debates about Brexit were dominating the UK Parliament, crowding out other matters that are equally important (or perhaps even more so). For example dealing with the issues of knife crime and violence among young people. There have been dissensions over the question of police numbers- whether the reduction in these has led to an increase…

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