All posts by Stephen Cooke
Ann Farr from Pax Christi Offers Signs of Hope – Middle East
Ann Farr from Pax Christi Offers Signs of Hope – Middle East
John Paul de Quay (ECG) Signs of Hope – Journey to 2030
John Paul de Quay (ECG) Signs of Hope – Journey to 2030
Aisling Griffin from Pax Christ offer signs of hope- Working With Young People
Aisling Griffin from Pax Christ offer signs of hope- Working With Young People
Andy Flannagan’s Talk Getting beyond Optimism to Hope: Demonstrating or building the Kingdom in the world of Politics?
Andy Flannagan’s Talk Getting beyond Optimism to Hope: Demonstrating or building the Kingdom in the world of Politics?
Andy Flannagan’s Question and Answer Session
Fr Patrick Devine’s Talk “Transforming Inter-ethnic Conflict and Religious Ideological Extremism; an Empowering Methodology to Secure Positive Peace”
Fr Patrick Devine’s Talk Transforming Inter-ethnic Conflict and Religious Ideological Extremism; an Empowering Methodology to Secure Positive Peace
Fr Patrick Devine’s Question and Answer Session
Watch Philip MacDonagh’s Talk “Towards a Civilisation of Hope”
Philip MacDonagh’s Talk Towards a Civilisation of Hope
Philip MacDonagh’s Question and Answer Session
NJPN Conference Update 22-24 July
NJPN Conference Update 22-24 July
‘Getting beyond Optimism to Hope: demonstrating or building the Kingdom in the world of politics?’
Considering the current political disarray, NJPN is fortunate to have, as one of its keynote speakers, Andy Flannagan Executive Director of Christians in Politics.
Andy believes that decisions are made by those who show up, striving to put kingdom before tribe and to disagree well. Christians in Politics draws together Christians from across the political parties and beyond, and from across the breadth of the church. Andy yearns to see a just rewiring of the global economic system. Andy is also author of ‘Those who show up’ (Muddy Pearl, 2015) In the forward Archbishop Justin Welby writes:
“Andy is reaching out, inspiring and equipping us to become engaged with a system that affects us deeply, and through which we in turn can effect radical and transformational change across our society.”
Andy juggles his political work with his career as a singer-songwriter and on Saturday evening Andy will lead a musical evening entitled Songs of Pain, Justice and Hope
NJPN E-Bulletin 10th July 2022
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”
(Pope Francis)
Dear Friends,
Well, what a week it has been in politics. Despite all of the lies, resignations, and all of the furore, things are just the same as they were this time last week. Boris Johnson, probably the most disliked Prime Minister in my lifetime – and certainly the least trustworthy when it comes to telling the truth – is still in charge and will be for several months. The only difference is that most of the Cabinet has changed (instead of A-listers, we now seem to have Z-listers – apologies if one of them is your MP, but most of them many of us have never heard of). There will now be months of wrangling and mud-slinging from both sides of the House, which will certainly take everyone’s attention away from the important job in hand of running the country, at a time when we need ideas and leadership. Interesting, but probably very frustrating times ahead.
This weekend we celebrate Sea Sunday, and we lead with this as our Action of the Week. Seafarers and fishers are often forgotten when we talk about everyday heroes, but with many foodstuffs and goods being imported across the sea they deserve our thanks and support.
The next e-bulletin will be around 4 weeks time as we have the NJPN Conference in a fortnight (more details below), and I am then away on holiday the following weekend. If you are submitting articles to be included, please bear this in mind.
I look forward to meeting some of you at the Conference, and if we have already met, I look forward to catching up with you again!
God bless,
Sharon (Editor)
NJPN E-Bulletin 10th July 2022
NW NJPN eBulletin Mid July 2022
In the run-up to the forthcoming NJPN Conference ‘Hope! a verb with its sleeves rolled up’ (22-24 July) and following this week’s dramatic coup against Boris Johnson by Conservative MPs, an extra edition of the NW NJPN E BULLETIN looks at the current turmoil in UK politics and aims to inspire us to look for signs of hope in our communities and in our wider world. Read through the Conference info on pages 6-7 and book a place if you haven’t done so already.
We lead with an opinion piece by peace activist and writer David Gee whose new book Hope’s Work makes challenging reading – highly recommended. The campaigning group Forces Watch give a worrying appraisal of some of the front-runners for the Tory leadership contest. CAFOD in Lancaster diocese has provided a comprehensive report for the coming months with a focus on the new campaign to Fix the Food System. CAFOD says that the way we grow and distribute food is broken, so people go hungry and the planet suffers, while the climate crisis makes the situation even worse. As Church Action on Poverty this week turns 40, the organisation looks ahead with optimism as new partnerships are forged to help local community groups.
Best wishes
Anne O’Connor
NW NJPN Justice and Peace E Bulletin Mid JULY 2022