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 Posted by: Bowman Saturday 21 January 2012 - 05:26pm

A simple account, but a beautiful one that does not give up all its meaning on a first reading. Unusually and valuably, it presents the emotions on both sides of the social divide. It could, after all, have been only the story of the compassionate churchfolk of Harrow discovering need in the midst of them, or only the story of an unusually brave street person with a flair for advocacy. Instead, the author takes a large step in presenting both sides of this, and the result is an empathic accuracy that identifies feelings of risk and trust that reframe the challenges of being at home amongst the homeless, and homeless amongst settled strangers.

 

 


 Posted by: John Watson Thursday 19 January 2012 - 06:19pm

We publish a powerful reflection by James Mercer on the issues of homelessness  entitled Trust is Risky.

Please use this forum to continue to add your own thoughts on the subject.

 

Every blessing

John Watson



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Genesis 1:28a posted by Andrew Chapman

Thanks, Bowman. And does this - the pleasantness of compliance to God's order and commands - not apply not only to aspects of the law given to Israel, which we are not obliged to keep, but also to the traditions of the apostles, which we are instructed to hold on to, and pass on to the next g...

Women Bishops: Church in all its Fullness posted by Andrew Chapman

I quite like Bowman's point that there is potential danger in bringing the women bishops issue into Ephesians 5 (if I can put it like that), which is about marriage. If we want to know 'how we should conduct [ourselves] in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pilla...

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Bowman, you say that the only distinguishing quality of the relationships: Christ:man, man:woman, God:Christ, and Christ:church, husband:wife (I have added one there), is coinherence. Surely, there is a hierarchy of authority visible here. Jesus submits to the Father, the church submits to the Lo...

 

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