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Haddon Willmer

  • Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking

    Edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill PrevetteRegnum, 2024. I am so glad to see this book come out, after ten years’ teamwork.It is very sad, and a great challenge, that a book of this sort is necessary. The contents give some idea of what it offers: I am grateful to have had…

  • Images of the City and the Shaping of Humanity 

    First published in 1989 in Theology in the City, ed. A.E. Harvey. , 32–46. You can read a 2024 introduction to this here. Faith in the City is a significant recent episode within the history of the Churches’ concerns about the ways in which people live in modern urban society and what cities make of human…

  • On Finding Faith in the City

    Sermon given to the University of Cambridge, Sunday 1 March 1987 at 11.15 a.m. You can read a 2024 introduction to this here. In its report, published fifteen months ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission called for action by Church and Nation to respond to Urban Priority Areas. We must let this call ring in…

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  • Two articles about the ‘city’

    Two old articles about the ‘city’ – On Finding Faith in the City (1987) and Images of the City and the Shaping of Humanity (1989) – are published again today on this blog. Why bring these two old articles about the ‘city’ out of the shadows just now? The Grenfell Enquiry, or rather the Disaster itself,…

  • Don’t let the sun go down on your anger

    Riot on the streets answered by stern prosecutions and prisons over-full – will that ensure order, bring peace?  We have often been here before. Read, for example, Austin Lovegrove’s informative and entertaining book, Images of an Australian Enlightenment: The Story of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie’s Treatment of the Convicts as a History Tale for Today…

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  • Questions to ask when reading Luke’s parables 

    In a recent talk, Haddon points to a connection between Luke’s parables and Nathan’s parable in 2 Samuel 12. Luke’s stories are not like the puzzling parables which begin ‘the kingdom of heaven is like …’. They are more like Nathan’s parable in 2 Samuel 12. Nathan tells David a parable about a cruel rich…

  • What is a person?

    I wish to offer you a few comments at the beginning of this conference.  First, our question, What is a person? would appear to be a question looking for a definition as its appropriate answer. But in parallel with those in the Gospel who looked for a sign, we may say that this is a…

  • Prayer and politics

    Praying is no substitute for politics. When we abandon living in the world, when we no longer love the earth, when we ignore the neighbour on the road, prayer is left empty, make-believe piety. We no longer walk with Jesus, Word made flesh, whatever our orthodox profession. Politics, even when it has not collapsed into…

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