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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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Looking for the heavenly Jerusalem – on earth
GIVEN a choice, would you live in the country or in the city? Many of our cities have declining populations because people get away if they can. We have enough hassle travelling into work in the city, we do not want to live there as well. Why is the city so uncomfortable? It jams so…
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Praying in our exiles
Sometimes people go far away, for a holiday perhaps. They find themselves alone in strange places and discover the experience is stimulating, educational even. Millions of people are now tourists; but millions more are refugees and exiles: they find themselves alone and lonely in strange places. Theirs is a destructive experience. Being an exile means…
While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer