Larry Elliott wrote about Elinor Ostrom in yesterday's Guardian concluding:
"For the most part, the world is not run along the lines suggested by Ostrom. It is overfished, increasingly deforested, ravaged by those who care nothing about resource management and local communities, dominated by dogmatists who think they know best. But there's something heartening about an economist who doesn't claim to have all the answers and who suggests there is a different way of doing things."
Andrew Brown often seems to me to offer a very honest take on the media and his piece on the Royal pranksters is the latest in this vein:
"What's constant in this story is the assumption that we, the public, deserve to see others humiliated. Pity and scorn, it seems, are appetites which everyone has a right to gratify."
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Graham Parker and the Rumour - Hey Lord, Don't Ask Me Questions.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Friday, 13 June 2008
Praying the Kingdom
'Praying the Kingdom' is a Quiet Day with Canon David Driscoll (Executive Officer for Mission in London's Economy). A day of Ignatian meditation based on Charles Elliott's book 'Praying the Kingdom: Towards a Political Spirituality'.
All are welcome on Saturday 14th June, 10.00am to 3.00pm at St John the Evangelist, St John's Road, Seven Kings, Ilford IG2 7BB. Please bring a packed lunch or be prepared to use local shops for lunch. Morning Prayer is at 9.00am, if you are able to come early.
Praying the Kingdom: Towards a Political Spirituality. Charles Elliott. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1985. It is normal, when taking in the reality and enormity of structural injustice in our world, to feel both guilty and powerless. Elliott demonstrates how these negative feelings can become creative starting points for a spirituality which enacts the coming Kingdom of God. He develops a series of meditative exercises in which we learn to combine imaginatively our stories with careful readings of Scripture narratives and poetry. Praying individually and corporately—especially in a Eucharistic context—allows us to speak more clearly what is in our hearts and allows God to give us a new vision of his work in the world, empowering us to join him in it.
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Arvo Part - Spiegel im Spiegel.
All are welcome on Saturday 14th June, 10.00am to 3.00pm at St John the Evangelist, St John's Road, Seven Kings, Ilford IG2 7BB. Please bring a packed lunch or be prepared to use local shops for lunch. Morning Prayer is at 9.00am, if you are able to come early.
Praying the Kingdom: Towards a Political Spirituality. Charles Elliott. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1985. It is normal, when taking in the reality and enormity of structural injustice in our world, to feel both guilty and powerless. Elliott demonstrates how these negative feelings can become creative starting points for a spirituality which enacts the coming Kingdom of God. He develops a series of meditative exercises in which we learn to combine imaginatively our stories with careful readings of Scripture narratives and poetry. Praying individually and corporately—especially in a Eucharistic context—allows us to speak more clearly what is in our hearts and allows God to give us a new vision of his work in the world, empowering us to join him in it.
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Arvo Part - Spiegel im Spiegel.
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