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A New Politics Of Care
Why, if care for our most vulnerable and frail is so important, so fundamental to our sense of righteousness, do we treat those who provide care so badly?
These words of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s John Kennedy are one of those simply put truths that make us squirm.
It’s not as if we are talking about a small section of society. One in eight UK adults care for older people
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Making The Pledge
Some figures make you wince and want to turn away. Here are a couple for the UK.
Two women a week are murdered by their current or ex-partner.
One in five women has experienced sexual assault.
Violence against women still pervades society and in some ways it has got a lot worse. With the emergence of social media in the last decade, a vista of threatened violence has been unleashed online. The power of words to intimidate and harass has never been starker. In the modern era, most of the harm against women has been effected in private. In the more recent digital age, the cruelty is public. It is also unashamed. Women are being bullied in ways intended to frighten them away from public roles. This trend has only just begun, so we have to make up our minds where we stand on it.
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When God calls us to rest, he shows us what he can do while we sit back
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