Corrymeela Community

December 18th, 2011

Inderjit Bhogal is Leader of the Corrymeela Community

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City of Sanctuary

December 18th, 2011

Inderjit Bhogal is the founder and President of City of Sanctuary

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Homeless and Rootless at Christmas

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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Perspectives… thoughts for Lent

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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Sheffield as a City of Sanctuary

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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Permission to Speak

August 3rd, 2009

A meeting place for the sharing of the spiritual journeys of its readers www.permissiontospeak.org.uk

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Delhi Cathedral 18th February 2001

May 26th, 2009

Amos 9:7 and John 4:21
See also Isaiah 19:19-25 (J. Sacks, Dignity of Difference, p.204)
 
I came to India in 1982 and made contact with the Church of North India. The Rev. Pritam Santram was the General Secretary and The Rev. Ernest Talibuddin was treasurer. The Rev. Patrick Moti lal was an up and coming young minister [...]

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Set all Free Sermon

May 26th, 2009

I am honoured to give this Methodist Sacramental Fellowship Lecture.  I am grateful to the MSF for the support you have given me over the years.   I value MSF for the respect you give to the testimony of the Holy Scriptures and the centrality of the Holy Eucharist.
I have been invited to give this Lecture [...]

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A sermon preached on Racial Justic Sunday 2004

May 22nd, 2009

“People will come from East and West, North and South, and will eat in the kingdom of God” (Lk 13:29 NRSV)
It’s a wonderful image for our contemporary world. We gather in the weekend during which the third anniversary of 9/11 has been marked. We gather at the end of the week which has seen the tragedy of Beslan [...]

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Vigil, Stratford Street Mosque 5th February 2006

May 22nd, 2009

The vigil is the initiative of Religious Leaders in Beeston, Leeds.  It has been organised by the Yorkshire and Humber Faiths Forum. 
The YHFF was established last year to:
• Advance the contribution of faith communities in the Yorkshire and Humber Region
• Encourage and educate faith communities to work together in matters of policy, strategy and action
• Challenge all forms [...]

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