solidarity

Build Back With (COVID-19 blog no. 21)

Build Back With (COVID-19 blog no. 21)

In the UK there appears to be some level of consensus, at least at the level of rhetoric, that things cannot go back to how they were before. These last four months could turn out to be our ‘teachable moment’ when we have come to the realisation that things cannot continue along the same trajectory.

Prison chaplaincy in the time of COVID-19 (COVID-19 blog no. 18)

Prison chaplaincy in the time of COVID-19 (COVID-19 blog no. 18)

Fear. The word and the emotion which has been at the forefront of my mind these past four months. When you leave work one day as part of a prison chaplaincy team made up of twenty two people but by the middle of the next day you are the only one permitted to enter the prison site, deemed as a ‘critical worker’, you know there may be something to be fearful of.

Rooting the Cross in its soil: the danger of sanitising grassroots movements during COVID-19

Rooting the Cross in its soil: the danger of sanitising grassroots movements during COVID-19

We must notice where the state wishes to celebrate aspects of community action to support its own agenda, whitewashing its roots, and refusing to recognise the radical politics from which it sprung, and the demands accompanying it.