Category - Community

New US church development initiative puts communities first

staff writers — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:59:57 +0100

The Communities First Association (CFA), a fast-growing inter-church movement based in the United States, has been formally launched at the beginning of July 2009.

Cultivating tough gratitude

Simon Barrow — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:14:21 +0100

Public life demands ‘tough’ corporate attributes rather than what it labels ‘soft’ personal ones – like love and gratitude. Simon Barrow argues that the communal cultivation of loving relation is needed to help redirect the official anonymity of the social order.

Help start a business and kick-start an economy!

staff writers — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:21:49 +0100

The best charity gifts help develop the independence and sustainability of struggling economies. In the hands of local people, a small business can be a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty.

It's community that counters terror

Simon Barrow — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:16:58 +0100

Many, including the Church of England, have argued that the government's 42 days detention without charge strategy is wrong - but what's the alternative?

Violence…isolation…despair: What can the church do?

Jordan Tchilingirian — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:47:42 +0100

Start: 19/09/2008 - 10:00

End: 19/09/2008 - 16:00

Connecting Communities conference

Community Transformation: dream or reality?: A residential event facilitated by Dave Andrews

Jordan Tchilingirian — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:24:45 +0100

Start: 05/11/2008 - 16:00

End: 07/11/2008 - 13:30

Taking its inspiration and content both from Dave Andrews’ most recent book Compassionate Community Work and the work of Livability (formerly the Shaftesbury Society) and Tearfund with churches in t

Backing for enquiry into mental health problems and suicide in prisons

staff writers — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:46:28 +0000

The campaigning group Black Mental Health UK has condemned the rapid rise in the number of suicides in prison over the past 12 months, and is seeking the backing of community and faith groups in its call for urgent government action.

Mundane politics, moral time bombs

Simon Barrow — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:13:58 +0000

Our parliamentary politics is about mediating different interests in a society of strangers, says Simon Barrow. But bioethical decisions confront us with the need to move beyond accommodation and confrontation to moral community.

A little local money goes a global way

Simon Barrow — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:38:03 +0000

A long-standing practical scheme for financially backing community initiatives and economic development among those on the margins of the global system is being promoted in Britain.

Understanding Reconciliation: Communities as Peacemakers 3

Jordan Tchilingirian — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:11:44 +0100

Start: 13/11/2007 - 18:30

“We can only be free together...we can only survive together…we can be human only together…” Desmond Tutu