As I suspect you will have seen a significant campaign against hunger has been launched today. The IF campaign has the support of over 100 organisations, including the C of E, Tearfund and Christian Aid. There is a launch event this evening which I’d hoped to go to, but sadly this is deadline week so…
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu has cut up his dog collar on the Andrew Marr show and says he will not replace it until Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe is out of office. Here is what he said: You know … you see as an Anglican, this is what I wear to identify myself that…
Thousands of people have taken part in marches around the world to highlight the issue of climate change. This is my report, though iit must be emphasised that I am really a very poor example of a climate change marcher for reasons that will become apparent. Above: Me on the climate change march. I look…
Last week was Christian Aid week. I suspect some readers will, like me, have had the joy of delivering their Christian Aid envelopes and then collecting them a few days later. The above not-really-humourous-I’m-afraid diagram illustrates the various responses one gets at the doors. Now, one thing must be said. I am not a particularly…
This is a very good thing that I saw a while ago but hadn’t remembered to write about until I saw it on Kristen’s bus stop blog. In summary, Kiva is a site that enables you to loan money to people who are running small businesses in developing countries. What a good idea. As Kristen…
This is a contribution by the UK blogging community to red nose day. Mike at Troubled Diva and several assistants have worked very hard in only a few days to put a book of humourous blog posts together together and it is now available to purchase from Lulu at the following link: http://www.lulu.com/content/739873 (or www.shaggyblogstories.co.uk…
This is the name of the walk that the Archbishops are doing in London on March the 24th to mark 200 years since the end of the slave trade. There is a website: makingourmark.org.uk. Today they have put a video on YouTube that is here. Frustratingly we have a long standing engagement in another part…
The energy of the crowd crackled as if currents of electricity were flowing through the room. Bishop Curry of North Carolina preached a sermon that had us all shouting, clapping and leaping to our feet. The American Anglicans have been gathering together this week. If you rummage around the internet you’ll find plenty of hot…
There are so many issues to campaign about these days. How do you decide which ones to concentrate on? I am a half hearted campaigner on lots of issues. Perhaps it would be better to concentrate on one and do it properly. NO to the bypass.
If you have a chance to get hold of a copy of the Independent today (Tuesday) then do. It is edited by Bono and has an Africa focus. See the website if getting hold of a paper copy is not an option. I’d say more but I have no electricity today and laptops these days…
Esuubi means ‘hope’ in Luganda and the Esuubi Trust aims to do just that, to give Ugandan children hope of a future. The Esuubi Trust is a charity set up by Kate who was in the youth group I used to run when I was a youth worker in Eastbourne. Note to youth workers reading:…
Pants to Poverty is a campaign to sell Fair Trade pants. Pants to Poverty has been set up by last year’s students’ group of Make Poverty History and exists to help the white band to evolve and make trade work for everyone and the environment; especially those who need it most: the workers of the…
Christian Aid has a new logo. It was designed by Johnson Banks, who, as an aside, have a great website. It uses Flash or something I think so may not work if your computer is old and rubbish. I particularly like the ‘work tree’ section showing projects they have done over the years. You will…
Another Fairtrade cartoon – once again no charge for using this if it is for a display promoting Fairtrade products or Fairtrade Fortnight. You can grab a high resolution version here. See also my other, not so funny Fairtrade cartoon. Feel free to post either of these Fairtrade cartoons on your blog if you are…
With Fairtrade Fortnight about to start (6-19th of March) I have published this Fairtrade cartoon on the main site. It originally appeared in the ‘Make Poverty History’ book I illustrated last year. If you’re doing a display or article promoting Fairtrade and would like to use it then please go ahead. For all other uses…
I thought I’d post some articles from the website of Craig Sams, founder of ‘Green and Blacks’, the first company to gain Fairtrade accreditation on one of their products. The Maya Gold Story tells the story, or for a shorter version see the text of a speech entitled Ten Years Of Fairtrade. Young Methodists did…
I thought I’d post some articles from the website of Craig Sams, founder of ‘Green and Blacks’, the first company to gain Fairtrade accreditation on one of their products. The Maya Gold Story tells the story, or for a shorter version see the text of a speech entitled Ten Years Of Fairtrade. Young Methodists did…
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity…
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