The Gospel takes away our right to discriminate

“The Gospel takes away our right forever to discriminate between the deserving and undeserving poor.” - Dorothy Day. I love this quote. God's care for the poor is because they are poor nothing else. It cuts across governments whose attitude to immigrants is less than generous, especially those who have signed up to the 1948 …

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Disney Princess theology — Psalm 125

Life is a roller-coaster White Christianity suffers from a bad case of Disney Princess theology. As each individual reads Scripture they see themselves as the princess in every story. They are Esther, never Xerxes or Haman. They are Peter, but never Judas. They are the woman anointing Jesus, never the Pharisees. They are the Jews …

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George Floyd is our brother, our father, our cousin, our friend – by Neil Charlton – Grace + Truth

I was finding it hard to say how disgusted I was with the killing of George Floyd, being a white British man. Instead, I am pointing you to this, written by a black man. To me, it gets to the heart of the matter. It made me cry. Thank you for writing this, Neil Charlton. …

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