April 15th, 2010
NOMAD is an organisation that has been working in Sheffield since 1989, to my knowledge. NOMAD began in 1989 when Jacky who had experienced homelessness with children, and Barrie who had experienced homelessness as a single man, made a commitment to form an agency to assist homeless people in Sheffield. Jacky and Barrie commenced their [...]
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March 4th, 2010
Have you ever found yourself asking what do a modern city and the Bible really have in common? How does faith fit in with how we live our lives in a city which is changing as fast as York?
In previous years CoRE, the York City Centre Churches Care and Development Trust played host to the [...]
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February 15th, 2010
The term “Asylum Seeker” should be dropped. Don’t use it. I argued this in an article for the Methodist Recorder in April 2001. It is better to recognise instead that there are people seeking or taking Sanctuary. There is an urgent need for a new and alternative vocabulary in the whole Immigration debate which will [...]
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