Recovering the Common Good (Part Three) An Outpost of the Kingdom In my earlier blog posts I suggested that Britain has not simply become more politically divided; it has, in many ways, forgotten the common good. I also argued that if we are to recover the common good, we first need to recover the story we are living in. The Church is called to inhabit the story of God’s Kingdom—a story that forms us into what I described as a fellowship of difference, where the waters of bap

Recovering the Common Good (Part Two) A Fellowship of Difference What story are we living in? —- In the my earlier blog post (see link in comments) I suggested that perhaps one of the deepest problems facing Britain is not simply political division, but the loss of the common good. We have become fluent in the language of rights and identity, but less sure how to speak about responsibility, belonging and the kind of society we hope to become together. That has left me wonderi

Recovering the Common Good (Part One) Whatever Happened to “We”? —— In a previous post I reflected on the demonstrations in Leeds and the polarisation of politics (See comments for the link) . They were simply notes in the margin—an attempt to think aloud rather than offer easy answers. I wasn’t trying to defend one political tribe against another. I was trying to understand why our common life feels so fractured. I’ve found myself returning to that question over the last few