World
Journeys outwards, us and them … journeys inwards, hearts and minds
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This online scrapbook is still (July 2025) evolving, still a draft for consultation and feedback, not a finished product. After further reflection, and in the light of comments , suggestions and contributions from others, it will in due course, hopefully, be expanded during 2026 and further tidied.
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JOURNEYS OUTWARDS
Change in the Global Village - new directions for world society
'peace is development, development is peace'
Earlier Loves and Larger Allegiances - Four decades in one world
'our single, beautiful and vulnerable Planet Earth'
Affectionate Alphabet - letters for the spirit of our time
'A is this Age, the One that is New'
Empathy, Solidarity, Intention - West Asia at a distance
first responses from afar following 7 October 2023
Religion, Conflict and Structural Violence - a memorandum
peace and justice, and vicious circles and spirals
Religion and Elightenment - allies, enemies or critical friends?
the age of reason, the age of faith
Why Are You So Angry? - trauma and loss in middle England
brexit and breaking, coronavirus and collapsing, healing
The Elephant in the Empire - naming, aiming, framing, proclaiming
six partially sighted people in search of a definition
JOURNEYS INWARDS
The People Stayed Home - towards healing in a time of pandemic
'they learned new ways of being, and were still'
God Says Yes to Me - evensong at an Oxford college
'what I'm telling you is Yes Yes Yes'
This Wretched Word Spirituality - send your children on journeys
'if you love your children, send them on journeys'
Truth, Beauty and Goodness - being moral, being creative
'transfiguration of the commonplace'
From Tertius to Theophila - notes for a Bible study
here in this world and at this time … these particular people'
Wondering and Wandering - breathing and attending
'heart, hemisphere, hers and his, hands-on, here'
The Clown - talk in a school chapel
'this clown was beginning to have doubts about his act'
BOTH OUTWARDS AND INWARDS
We Here Today - bless this generation
speech at a family wedding