What faith communities offer

A government minister has highlighted the role of religion in building a ‘new politics’ based on hope. Stephen Timms, financial secretary to the Treasury, spoke of the challenges presented by the world economy, the conflict in the Middle East and last weekend’s attack on Stephen Lewis, who was stabbed leaving a church hall party in his East London constituency. Addressing the Institute of Public Policy Research, Mr Timms said it was the ‘calling’ of politicians to figure out how to tackle such challenges and that the religious groups of Britain were ‘crucial’ to this process. ‘Faith communities have a great deal to offer us, not least in their resource of hopefulness, as we build a new politics based on hope to respond effectively to the challenges we face,’ he said.

Source: The Times (29/1) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5614131.ece.

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