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As Shakespeare says, ‘all the world’s a stage.’ So here I am, among the cast, to play my part. ✝️ Still at the other place, but preferring the blue of the sky here.
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This is how Bullies work: If you say out loud they scare you, they scare you harder. That's how you know who they are. Good people who are not bullies will feel sorry for the way they make you feel unsafe. They will apologize and ask how they can be better. If that does not happen, then you know.+

"At a time when it seems so abundantly clear that greed is in charge and running rampant, I think people need to be equipped to build communities that resist those assumptions." @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“Jesus wants your obedience over your sacrifice. In other words He wants you, not what you have to offer”

"Discernment helps us come to know our true identity in creation, vocation in the world, and unique place in history as an expression of divine love."

What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’? What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported? I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.

Hear this, ‘on the importance of children’s literature’: ‘[T]he imagination is not an optional extra.’ ‘… we can all meet on the pages of A.A. Milne in a way that we cannot on the pages of Jacques Derrida.’ ‘There’s no doubt that reading for pleasure as a child can change your life.’

The anti-greed gospel. @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social

‘Housing in New Zealand is no longer about homes, dignity and security.… ‘Secure housing is at the centre of wealth accumulation and wellbeing, and the lack of it is at the heart of our chronic poverty.…’ — Rebecca Macfie, ‘The Great Divide’

Remember, the time of year when the future appears like a blank sheet of paper a clean calendar, a new chance. On thick white snow You vow fresh footprints then watch them go with the wind’s hearty gust. Fill your glass. Here’s tae us. Promises made to be broken, made to last. — Jackie Kay

‘Advent means, “the arrival,” and for those who celebrate, we wait [remembering] the arrival of Jesus into the world…. ‘Following Jesus isn’t [primarily] the way to get to something. Following Jesus is the destination itself.’ — Tricia Gates Brown substack.com/@religionmat...

‘When the Son of God volunteered for the crib, he was embracing the cross.’ x.com/glenscrivene...

'I wish it could be Christmas every day' could only be written by someone not responsible for any of the organising & work that goes into it. No middle aged woman could possibly have written it. Stop wishing & get helping, fella.

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

This… is actually really important.

‘We need to understand how food trade is being used as a weapon to maintain poverty.’ We really do!

When you see fruit and veg prices slashed at supermarkets, someone is paying that cost and it's not the multinational supermarkets. #food #supplychains #foodimperialism #colonialism #neoliberalism www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Work is good for all sorts of reasons; but ‘a malformed notion of’ the value ‘of human life and … worship of GDP’ tend to distort our view. The re-promotion below of @simonduffy.bsky.social’s insightful essay – *Is Work Good?* – of 2015, is well worth a read.

Today's letter in the FT - repost if you agree (please!) shorturl.at/dxFtY

True strength often lies not in dull acceptance, but in quiet resistance, not in power but in courage, not in having all the answers but in asking the right questions. @bbc www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent."

Disabled people in the UK face £583 extra costs per month on average, even after benefits are taken into account. One in five disabled people face extra costs of over £1,000 per month. Disabled people are exceptionally likely to live in poverty. #Dispatches

It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled | Tom Serpell

Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's vote, shout out to all MPs' staff who deserve the loveliest, most restful weekend imaginable after such a heavy & emotionally draining few weeks in the inbox. Unsung heroes.

'As long as the lives of marginalised people are seen as more disposable than others, how can any safeguards truly protect us from the potential abuses, coercion and mistakes that will come if assisted suicide is legalised?'

100% this👇 We’ve become addicted to thinking giving food is the solution to poverty, when it couldn’t be clearer that the answers lie in making sure people have enough money.

It's hard to apply for jobs when you don't have enough money to buy food. A new approach to employment support is long overdue. Today's announcements are a positive step forward. BUT the government’s new plan for employment support can only work if they also invest in our social security system.

Millions of underheated homes. Often saving just pennies but costing lives.

We are all responsible for protecting libraries. www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...

Wise observation and exhortation: ‘… while many people seek digital spaces for conversations, it’s also an easy place to speak in ways we never would in person. ‘We can’t afford to turn on one another. We must practise … disagreement while remaining a community.’