by Bernadette Meaden | May 5, 2022 | Commentary
GIVING CASH TO PEOPLE ON LOW INCOMES is arguably one of the best and most cost-effective investments a government can make. But our UK government distrusts and humiliates those in need of small amounts of cash, whilst dispensing billions to the already wealthy. At the...
by Jill Segger | Apr 29, 2022 | Commentary
PASSIONTIDE IS OVER NOW, for both the Eastern and Western churches. Even for those of us who take no part in the offices of the Great Week, it can be a strange and gruelling time. Every year, I make my own Quaker engagement by reading St Matthew’s account of this...
by Bernadette Meaden | Apr 28, 2022 | Commentary
IN 2020, SECRETARY OF STATE THERESE COFFEY told the Work and Pensions Committee that her department does not have a ‘duty of care’ towards vulnerable benefit claimants. In response, Ken Butler of Disability Rights UK said: “The view of the Secretary of...
by Jon Morgan | Apr 15, 2022 | Commentary
WHEN REFLECTING on the Good Friday narrative, I’m always drawn back to the accounts of Gethsemane. Understandably, Christian tradition has made a massive deal of the prayer Jesus taught his disciples during his ministry. But, perhaps oddly, his prayers in...
by Nicholas Adams | Apr 15, 2022 | Commentary
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES face a set of contradictions and difficulties in Holy Week. The focus of the action is Jesus: his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the last supper, the trial, the crucifixion. But the context of the action is Jewish religious life: of Jesus and his...
by Rosemary Brien | Apr 14, 2022 | Commentary
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice, Shon Faye, Allen Lane, 2021. Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, Finn Mackay, I.B. Tauris, 2021. In recent times, in the UK and a number of other countries, inclusion of transgender people in...
