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...to stimulate Relational ThinkingJonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-63244603791895913302014-07-18T12:03:00.000-07:002014-07-21T02:45:18.501-07:00Assisted dying: choice for whom?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent, a part of the main.” John Donne</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">News</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The surprising u-turn by the former Archbishop of Canterbury
George Carey contributed to an extensive debate on assisted dying in the media this
week. Today the House of Lords is
debating Lord Falconer’s bill on this topic.
Should assisted dying be legalised, it would cause five relational
fissures to weaken society:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. The relationship between <b>words and meaning</b>: ‘assisted dying’ is what happens daily when
thousands of relatives and people in caring professions help make the last weeks
of a person’s life as comfortable as possible, not just physically but
emotionally and relationally too. This debate
is not about assisted dying, but
assisted suicide.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. The relationship between <b>doctors and their patients</b>: assisted suicide that requires doctors
to prescribe lethal doses of drugs would force them to break the Hippocratic Oath
and turn their ethics – and relationship with patients – upside down. If medics are given legal powers to take life
not just save life, the ground rules of the doctor-patient relationship will be
forever altered.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. The relationship between <b>old people and their relatives/carers</b>: thousands of old people are
abused every year as it is; this law would leave frail people vulnerable to the
notion that they have become too much of a burden to others. To allow the
option of ‘sparing’ their carers and family by requesting assisted suicide
would place a huge moral dilemma on many of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. The relationship between <b>vulnerable people and wider society</b>: even though this change of law
is intended for just a small number of cases, it would normalise assisted
suicide and make it socially acceptable. It would then be just a matter of time
until assisted suicide is not just <i>permitted</i>
but <i>expected</i> – and thus increase the
sense of isolation and rejection felt by old people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Lastly, the relationship between <b>the financial industry and law makers</b>: lurking in the shadows in this
debate is the substantial economic benefit to the insurance and pension
industries (both government and private) should it be possible to hasten the
death of the sick and elderly. Legalising
assisted suicide would prise open the door to economic factors to influence
future debates in parliament and the courts on euthanasia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The arguments for assisted suicide are about increasing
individual choice – but should this trump all else? Any change in the law of the land must consider <i>all</i>
who would be affected by it – everyone who is implicated relationally or caught up in
the unintended consequences. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">George Carey’s views can be read <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689295/Carey-Ive-changed-mind-right-die-On-eve-Lords-debate-ex-Archbishop-dramatically-backs-assisted-death-law.html">here</a>,
and a considered response by Ian Paul <a href="http://www.psephizo.com/life-ministry/carey-death-and-experience/">here</a>. Alternatively, you might like to watch a
summary of the Westminster Faith Debate on this very issue <a href="http://faithdebates.org.uk/debates/2013-debates/religion-and-personal-life/legislate-assisted-dying/">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk the talk:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dying well is much more than a pain-free death – it includes
the relational elements of saying thank you, sorry, and I love you. Have you thought through what dying well
would constitute for you? </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Genesis 25 verse 8: “Then Abraham breathed
his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was
gathered to his people.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-44615793815890137152014-04-20T15:42:00.001-07:002014-04-29T04:25:17.556-07:00Easter Day visual interlude<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;">The Raising of Lazarus, by </span>Eduard
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Von Gebhardt came from a Prussian family and grew up in what
is now Estonia, where his father was a devout Lutheran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Protestant faith drew him to painting biblical
scenes especially depicting miracles of healing, such as this one of Jesus
raising Lazarus from the dead (from John’s gospel, chapter 11).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This miracle was a pivotal one in the gospel account, for it
set in motion the chain of events which would lead to Jesus’ own arrest, trial
and execution, which Christians remember at Easter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus was already wanted by the religious
authorities in Jerusalem, and he had been steering clear of the region for some
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then his close friends Mary
and Martha sent word for him to come and heal their brother Lazarus, who was
very ill, just two miles from Jerusalem in Bethany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jesus waited before coming but by then Lazarus was dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sisters were grief-stricken and confused –
they believed Jesus loved them, and that he could heal their brother, so why had
he delayed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when he called Lazarus from
the grave, Jesus was not only bringing an unspeakable joy to his friends, but also
calling them to a deeper level of faith in him – that he would not only heal
sickness, but also triumph over death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gebhardt longed to connect the truth of this story to his
own life and times, so he set the scene in a contemporary graveyard, but with costumes
from the 16<sup>th</sup> century – perhaps in recognition of Luther’s teaching
about faith in Christ, which was so influential to the artist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More than that, he was stretching out in faith by portraying
his own terminally ill wife as Martha, kneeling just behind her sister Mary in
the painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is explaining
something to them, perhaps, <span class="woj">“Did I not tell you that if you
believe, you will see the glory of God?” (John 11:40)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All this would gather into a climax a few weeks later, when it
would be Jesus’ lifeless body in the tomb, and the sisters would be mourning for
a second time… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then there would be an
unwavering gleam of hope, like the dawn on the horizon of Gebhardt’s painting,
which would soon turn into the full wonder of the first Easter sunrise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Easter Night</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All night had shout of men, and
cry <br />
Of woeful women filled His way; <br />
Until that noon of sombre sky <br />
On Friday, clamour and display <br />
Smote Him; no solitude had He, <br />
No silence, since Gethsemane. <br />
Public was Death… but Power, but Might, <br />
But Life again, but Victory, <br />
Were hushed within the dead of night, <br />
The shutter'd dark, the secrecy. <br />
And all alone, alone, alone, <br />
He rose again behind the stone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Alice Meynell</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (1847-1922)</span></span></div>
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</span>Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-41878543499500334182014-04-11T13:56:00.002-07:002014-04-15T08:37:39.995-07:00Learning from MH370<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world
seems depopulated.” Alphonse de Lamartine (French writer and poet,
1790-1869)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since 239 passengers and crew took off for a routine flight
to Beijing on the ill-fated MH370 five weeks ago, 26 nations have been involved
in searching for the missing plane, and scores of sailors and airmen are
scouring the southern Indian Ocean for the slightest clue. Meanwhile, hundreds of angry, confused
relatives are caught in the suspended grief associated with ‘ambiguous loss.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The technical challenges have been formidable: analysing
complex data from satellites to try and narrow down the search zone; racing
against time to detect signals from the black box before the battery runs out;
and still to come, attempting to locate actual wreckage on the uncharted seabed
4,500m below the surface.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet behind these technical issues are relational ones. No defence forum exists in South Asia, to
coordinate international responses to such incidents. Thus the search began slowly and has gone
erratically at times because of the lack of trust between the major nations
involved. China, India and USA have been reluctant to share their radar data or
high resolution satellite imagery for fear of revealing their military technology
– or perhaps lack of it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Malaysian government’s handling of the crisis has also
been fraught with relational problems.
Their inability to separate the security and PR issues from their
responsibility towards the families of the missing people meant communication was
sporadic and lacking in transparency. This
was aggravated when the authorities broke the news that the plane had certainly
crashed to the relatives through a text message.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s essential to find the wreckage now and understand what
went so tragically wrong on the final flight of MH370, and steps taken to reduce
the risk of it happening again. But equally
vital is to bring closure to the hundreds of friends and loved ones who are hanging
in limbo between a faint glimmer of hope and the gathering storm clouds of grief. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In time, investment in new technologies will overcome the technical
challenges and limitations brought to light through this tragedy; might the
same level of resources and effort be invested in addressing some of the
relational weaknesses too? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The R Option by Michael Schluter and David Lee looks at
different themes and issues from a relational perspective; read the chapter
about loss <a href="http://www.relationalresearch.org/Web/OnlineStore/Product.aspx?ID=77" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How well prepared are you for helping people cope with
unexpected loss or tragedy? Is this
something you might take time to learn more about?</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word</span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Psalm 34 verse 18: “The LORD is close to the
brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”</span></span></div>
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Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-64622227344348345572014-03-21T10:45:00.003-07:002014-03-21T10:45:45.729-07:00The currency of welfare<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers.
They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare,
youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence
and abuse.” Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chancellor George Osborne proposed some radical changes to
UK pension arrangements in this week’s Budget, offering more individual choice
to new retirees on how to manage their pension pot.<span> </span>Although debate has continued since then over
the impact this will have on the state’s finances, two things stand out.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Firstly, the yawning gap of unfunded pension liabilities – £3.8
trillion (over 3 times the national debt) in the basic state pension alone.
This is the difference between what the state has promised to pay to those
retired or in work now, and the anticipated revenues to cover it.<span> </span>Secondly, more older people vote than young
ones (70% of over 65s, 39% of 18-24 year olds) so governments are loath to squeeze
pensions; Mr Osborne knows very well that the pensioner vote can determine an
election.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aside from pensions, healthcare and other costs of caring for
older people will also spiral with an ageing population, which means the
welfare system in its present form is completely unsustainable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The welfare state is less than 70 years old, so the concept
that the government is ultimately responsible for welfare provision, through financial
payments, is a relatively new one.<span> </span>It is
families and friends who in the past and even now provide the lion’s share of welfare;
unpaid carers gave time worth £119 billion in 2011, larger than the whole NHS
budget. <span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thus welfare is not just an economic issue, but a relational
one too.<span> </span>As state financial provision
dwindles in the coming decades, it’s imperative to consider how to re-empower
families and community organisations as society’s primary source of welfare, so
the state only has to step in as provider of last resort. <span> </span>This won’t happen overnight, but government
could pave the way now through housing policy, devolving welfare decisions, and
providing tax incentives for colocation of relatives.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When faced with the prospect of dwindling financial pensions,
let’s rediscover how relationships are the currency of welfare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Theos recently published a collection of papers on the future
of welfare, which explores some of the moral issues involved.<span> </span>The introduction is a good overview to the
document, which can be downloaded <a href="http://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/publications/2014/02/19/the-future-of-welfare-a-theos-collection" target="_blank">here</a>.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In what currency are you planning for your retirement?<span> </span>Only financially, or relationally also? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Isaish 46, verse 4: “Even to your old age
and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-6000935641781423712014-02-21T09:56:00.001-08:002014-02-21T09:57:19.683-08:00Floods of excuses<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“But O the change! the winds grow high; Impending tempests
charge the sky; <br />
The lightning flies, the thunder roars; And big waves lash the frightened
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Matthew Prior, English poet (1664-1721)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This has been the wettest winter for parts of Britain since
records began in 1776. A relentless
series of storms has battered the British Isles, causing £600 million of damage
and leaving thousands of homes flooded. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a country that is quick to point the finger in blame, various
‘villains’ have emerged: government spending cuts, failure to dredge rivers, the
Environment Agency, dithering politicians.
And of course, all those responsible for climate change. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While some of these ‘villains’ were making excuses, plenty
of ordinary heroes got to work: neighbours and volunteers keeping watch on
water levels, helping people evacuate, distributing sandbags, providing shelter
and emergency supplies. Some have travelled
across the country to where help was needed most.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When a crisis overwhelms the normal structures and
procedures for dealing with adverse conditions, it somehow gives ‘permission’
to people to volunteer their time and resources – often tirelessly and
sacrificially – on a scale not seen under normal conditions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How might such a generous community spirit be unlocked more
easily? Does take a crisis to bring it
out? It seems it’s a function of social
capital: the stronger the relationships are in a community, the more aware
people are of others’ needs, and more willing to help each other out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So in response to these storms, we need to spend more on more
flood protection, yes, but we would also do well to build stronger community
relationships. It gives people more excuses
for kindness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A recent article in Nature discusses how social contracts involving
the state, civil society and individual actors need to evolve to cope with the likely
increase in extreme weather events. Read
the paper comparing flooding in Ireland and England <a href="https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/42061/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you live in Britain, why not sign up on <a href="http://floodvolunteers.co.uk/">http://floodvolunteers.co.uk/</a>
to offer some time or practical assistance to a flooded community near you? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Acts chapter 20, verse 35: “<span class="text">In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we
must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: </span><span class="woj">‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’</span><span class="text">
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Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-65517515482712123602014-02-07T08:11:00.000-08:002014-02-07T08:12:38.094-08:00Relational State of the Union<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live
in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” Theodore
Roosevelt</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last week’s State of the Union address by President Obama revealed
his view of the condition of America economically, socially and politically. Looking through a relational lens suggests
that beneath the conventional analysis there are three areas of relationship
vital to the long term health and sustainability of American society. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Politically, the relationships between elected politicians
from different parties has become chronically dysfunctional to the point that
President Obama told Congress that he would enact reforms wherever possible
without involving them. Only 58 bills
were passed in 2013, the lowest on record, and public trust in US politicians
is a lamentable 19%. Relational capital
in politics is built on the tough art of compromise for the common good. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Economically, the gap between rich and poor is widening. Recent increases in wealth have largely gone
to owners of capital, rather than to people who do the real work in companies
(unless the latter are paid in shares – one reason why top executives’ pay has
been soaring while average wages are stagnant).
Relational capital will fall if the profits of hard work and effort are
not shared out fairly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Domestically, the relationship between couples – whether
married or cohabiting – is crucial to their own health and wellbeing as well as
that of their children. Children raised
in two parent families (the proportion is steadily declining, currently 64% in
the US) consistently achieve better life outcomes than children raised by one parent. Relational capital in the family collapses
when there is a breakdown in the couple relationship, leading to significant economic
costs, besides the social and emotional price tag.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">America was built on the ability of diverse people to live
and work together in pursuit of a common vision and dream. Their capacity now to overcome major problems
such as spiralling national debt, unequal access to healthcare, and polarised
politics may ultimately depend on their ability to rebuild their social and
relational capital. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Might it be the relational state of the union which matters
the most? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another major long term problem which is essentially relational
in nature is how to ensure adequate care for an ageing population; read an
article in the Washington Post about the crisis of care facing American
baby-boomers <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/huge-shortage-of-caregivers-looms-for-baby-boomers-report-says/2013/08/25/665fb2aa-0ab1-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If someone were to assess the relational state of your town or
community, where might its strengths and weaknesses lie? Why not start a conversation with a couple of
friends along these lines?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the
Bible, Proverbs 11 verse 11: “Through the blessing of the upright a city is
exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-41052463907843076702014-01-17T09:39:00.002-08:002014-01-17T09:40:28.546-08:0012 Years of Slavery or an enduring condition?<div id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389866846081_4366" style="margin-bottom: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">By Robert Loe (Twitter @Robert_Loe)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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“Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be: and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be” Charles Sumner<br />
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Yesterday, nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced in Los
Angeles with Steve McQueen’s ‘12 Years a Slave’ named in nine
categories. The film, and the original harrowing story penned by the
central character Solomon Northup, has left critics transfixed.<br />
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The significance of this film is far greater than the Oscar ceremony.
For some it has underlined the racial divisions that still exist in many
societies. For others it is a distressing reminder of the past where
true reconciliation and forgiveness have not, perhaps, been fully
achieved; one American blogger wrote a piece, “Why I wouldn’t see 12
Years a Slave with a White Person”. Yet for others it has been a
unifying experience; McQueen spoke of strangers holding hands in the
darkness of early screenings, so moved were they by the subject matter.<br />
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So what is it about Northup’s story that has captured the public
imagination in this way? At one level, viewers are responding to the
degrading and abhorrent practice of slavery. We are reminded of the
struggles of abolitionists to rid the world of its practice spurred on
by a belief in the need for justice in all relationships across society.<br />
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The public are repulsed by a practice they thought long extinct.
Slavery, they assumed, was gone and freedom now the hallmark of
civilized cultures. Yet, despite the achievements of reformers like
Wilberforce, slavery remains a modern day injustice of global
proportions, rife even in Western nations. Whilst official figures place
the numbers in their thousands, the true numbers of adults (and
shamefully children) sold and forced to work, beg, or worse in the UK
are much higher.<br />
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Liberty might well be described as a freedom from slavery but
paradoxically there remains the freedom to enslave oneself. Taking
credit may be an exercise of freedom but it comes at a price, as debt is
a form of financial servitude to another. Moreover, anyone who has
experienced some form of addiction will testify to the enslaving power
that diminishes freedom and destroys dignity.<br />
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In part, the interest in slavery may come from a deep-seated fear that we may not be as free as we perhaps thought.<br />
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For a reflection on Christian conscience and political action as illustrated by the abolitionists, read <a href="http://jubilee-centre.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bb2541a55183e1f2b4ec82f6b&id=36b27e3b57&e=f00457beb3" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Consider what you might do to raise awareness and take action against
all forms of slavery – including any forms uncomfortably close to home.<br />
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From the Bible, Proverbs Chapter 22, verse 7: “The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389866846081_4392">Robert Loe is Director of
the Relational Schools Project, a new initiative from Relational
Research. You can read more information about the project by visiting </i><a href="http://jubilee-centre.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=bb2541a55183e1f2b4ec82f6b&id=c072d03919&e=f00457beb3" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389866846081_4442" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><i id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1389866846081_4441">www.relationalschools.org</i></a><i>. </i></span>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-71497029325678993802013-12-20T11:27:00.000-08:002013-12-20T11:27:28.217-08:00A black and white Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />The
French artist Jean-Francois Millet is best known for his evocative
paintings of peasant life in France; ‘The Gleaners’ is perhaps his most
famous work. The Barbizon school which he co-founded sought greater
realism in art; taking scenes from nature as their subjects, and
introducing loose brushwork and bright colours, they were the
forerunners of Impressionism.<br /><br />Millet’s ‘The Flight into Egypt’ is
in quite a different vein; the scene in this pencil drawing is brooding
and opaque. The couple trudging silently through the darkness would be
entirely anonymous but for Millet’s title and the strange glow
emanating from the bundle which the man is carrying. This is Joseph,
Mary and the infant Jesus – fleeing by night the murderous threat they
faced in Bethlehem. Alone and fearful, without any human support or
help, they hope to find refuge in a strange land.<br /><br />Although Millet
drew this 150 years ago, it symbolises the black-and-white Christmas
that countless people are facing this year. Two million Syrian refugees
are struggling to survive as winter storms are buffeting their camps.
In the Central African Republic, 700,000 people have fled their villages
in the last few weeks due to sectarian violence, and thousands of
Filipinos are still wrestling with the devastating consequences of
typhoon Haiyan.<br /><br />Here in Britain half a million people will spend
Christmas alone, and for most it’s not by choice. They may be warm and
dry physically, but they’re lonely and lacking support: their poverty is
relational. Thousands of parents whose marriage has failed will be
prevented from seeing their children next week due to court orders; they
too face a black-and-white Christmas.<br /><br />The couple in Millet’s
picture would have been anonymous to any who saw them, yet their lives
were immensely significant. Like the shadowed faces of Mary and Joseph,
the faces of the people who are physically and relationally poor this
Christmas are invisible to us; they are ‘just statistics’.<br /><br />But
the birth of Christ shows that each and every one of them is immensely
significant. Will you let the light of Christmas change the way you see
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Abraham Lincoln</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tributes that have been flowing in since Nelson Mandela
died last night emphasise the extraordinary relational footprint he has left in
the nation and the world. <span style="line-height: 115%;">Tony
Blair said what stood out to him was the way Mandela ascribed to everyone the
same dignity – he would converse with the doorman and the lady serving the
tea, not just with the politicians.</span> He valued shared humanity above political and
social status. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The history of South Africa over the last 20 years could
have been very different had Mandela not been such a remarkable leader
relationally. Despite the inhuman conditions
of Robben Island prison, Mandela came to treat his captors with courtesy and
respect, to the point where some felt they were more like Mandela’s guests than
his warders. He later invited his jailer
to his presidential inauguration in 1994.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Following his release he engaged with the white government
leaders with dignity and courage, which slowly won their trust and allowed a
passage towards peaceful elections.
Mandela could so easily have been driven by bitterness, resentment and
anger which might have led the country towards showdown and civil war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other stories tell how Mandela gained the loyalty of the white
elite by keeping the same security staff in the presidential palace after coming
to power. The film ‘Invictus’ shows how he
earned the trust of the wider white population by embracing the Springboks –
who epitomised Apartheid – and enthusiastically supporting their successful bid
to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mandela’s domestic life was more troubled, and his first two
marriages ended in divorce. Nevertheless, his commitment to forgiveness, his accomplishment
in uniting South Africans across racial and tribal divides, and leading them without
retribution or recrimination from Apartheid to democracy, will ensure his long
walk to freedom will inspire others for generations to come. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The trial of Nelson Mandela in 1964 led to his 27 years of
imprisonment; read his remarkable speech at that trial, carefully documenting
the grievances of the black South African population and the ANC’s strategy
<a href="http://www.news24.com/NelsonMandela/Speeches/FULL-TEXT-Mandelas-Rivonia-Trial-Speech-20110124" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Treating people who are prejudiced towards you with dignity
and respect can be transformative of the relationship; is there someone you
need to respond to in this positive spirit? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Matthew 5, verse 39: “<span class="red">You
have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ </span>But I
tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek,
turn to them the other cheek also.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-41941562683950053782013-11-29T14:40:00.001-08:002013-11-29T14:40:37.414-08:00Cricket, character and controversy<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“It is not true that
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interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Bryson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The nature of threatening comments made by Australian
cricketers during the Test match last weekend have cast a cloud over their otherwise
impressive performance, beating England by 381 runs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>British player Jonathan Trott flew home early
with a stress-related illness after being taunted as ‘weak’ and ‘fearful’, and the
Australian captain was fined for threatening behaviour when he warned another
English batsman to get ready for a broken arm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While some competitive banter between opposing sides is
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too far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contrast this with India’s Sachin Tendulkar, who played his
200<sup>th</sup> and final Test match two weeks ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tendulkar’s huge following in India and
around the world owes as much to his character as to his cricketing genius.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is modest and patient, has time for others,
including his adversaries, and treats everyone with courtesy and respect – whether
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Despite his huge fame, the sporting legend has largely
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two children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Tendulkar’s valedictory
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his close family and friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The mean-spirited behaviour of some of the players has left
a relational chill over the Test Match in Brisbane; perhaps the example of
Sachin Tendulkar, and the way he honoured his relationships on and off the
field, needs to rub off on his fellow cricketers.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read on</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The formation of character and values was a major motivation
behind the development of competitive sport. Read <a href="http://www.christianitymagazine.co.uk/Browse%20By%20Category/features/world-cup-mission.aspx" target="_self">this article</a> in Christianity magazine about the church
origins of many of Britain’s top football clubs. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk the talk</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Colossians chapter 4 verse 6: “Let your
conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know
how to answer everyone.”</span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-24454502481973056822013-11-22T11:25:00.003-08:002013-11-22T11:25:50.321-08:00Kennedy, Lewis and looking for hope<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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world." <span> </span>Benjamin Disraeli</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">News</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two distinguished men died on this day fifty years ago, one
through an assassin’s bullet, the other through renal failure.<span> </span>JF Kennedy was the youngest elected President
of the United States, while CS Lewis was an Oxbridge academic, broadcaster and apologist
for the Christian faith.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Both men inspired hope.<span>
</span>Kennedy launched his presidency with the famous words, "Ask not
what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your
country."<span> </span>His leadership motivated
idealism and service, and one of his more enduring legacies was establishing
the US Peace Corps.<span> </span>Yet the hope he inspired
remained unfulfilled, trapped in suspended animation through his sudden and
untimely death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CS Lewis inspired hope in quite a different way.<span> </span>His earthy, well-reasoned theology appealed
to a wide range of people.<span> </span>Whether
addressing the challenges of war, the reality of pain and grief, or inner
battles with temptation, Lewis was able to communicate the deep truths of the
Christian faith to a doubting world.<span> </span>His
Chronicles of Narnia are a masterful Christian allegory loved by children and
adults alike, in which Aslan the great lion symbolises Jesus Christ.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The death of Lewis was eclipsed by the assassination of
Kennedy the same day, which is one of the reasons why it has taken a long time
to appreciate his influence and legacy.<span> </span>In
recognition of Lewis’ contribution to literature and national life, a plaque is
being unveiled today in his honour at Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The world needs hope as much now as it did 50 years
ago.<span> </span>However, people in the 21st<sup></sup>
century look on political leaders through jaded eyes, and there will never be
another like John F. Kennedy.<span> </span>Neither
will there be another Lewis, but through his writings, people continue to
discover the source of hope and faith which transformed his own life.<span> </span>As Lewis wrote in The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe,‘Aslan is on the move!’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alister McGrath wrote a new biography of CS Lewis this year,
which was reviewed by Anthony Kenny in the Times Literary Supplement; you can
read the review <a href="http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1275683.ece" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk the talk</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where do you tend to look for hope?<span> </span>Are you depending on human strength or skill,
or are you trusting in a higher power?</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Psalm 146 verses 3 & 5: “Do not put your
trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save…<span> </span>Blessed are those whose help is the God of
Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-22495806105441994972013-11-08T03:48:00.000-08:002014-01-22T05:53:35.200-08:00United we stand?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be
partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on
positional power.” Ken Blanchard </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The recent dispute between the Grangemouth petrochemical
plant owners and the Unite union, which nearly led to the closure of the plant,
is still being debated in the press and in Parliament. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Unite union took on plant owners Ineos over a
disciplinary issue involving a union convenor, while the company wanted to negotiate
the ‘survival plan’ for the loss-making complex. At the threat of strike action, Ineos decided
to close the plant, which was only reversed when the union accepted all the
terms and conditions set out by Ineos; ‘a complete rout’ is how the press called
it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In other parts of the industry, unions and employers are
working together constructively over safety and training, adjusting to the
recession, and minimising compulsory redundancies. Yet the poor relationship at Grangemouth led
to a brinkmanship that almost cost 800 jobs directly, and over 2000 indirectly
– which would have decimated the local community economically and relationally.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arguably, the conflict is fuelled by the relational ‘story’ which
the two parties are acting from. The
Unite union (and perhaps the management also) believes the relationship between
employers and their staff is a fundamentally adversarial one – reflecting the
Marxist thinking of many leaders in the Union movement. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet there is an alternative story, which is that businesses
can be built around the commonality or mutual benefit in the relationship between
employers and those who work for them.
Economics deals in labour and capital, but in reality a business comprises
a web of relationships between people – directors, employees, customers, unions,
suppliers, neighbours, regulators and so on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When there is honesty, fairness and order in these
relationships the business is more likely to survive in adverse times and prosper
in the long run, with the benefits shared by all. But where mistrust, strife and contention
overshadow workplace relationships, then productivity falls, the business enters
a downward spiral, and the web of relationships unravels to the detriment of
all.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read on…</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another company with 900 employees offers an inspiring example
of that alternative story; it has never laid off a member of staff due to recession
in its 130 year history. Read about
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the Swiss Army knife manufacturer Victorinox <a href="http://www.campdenfb.com/article/cut-above" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk the talk</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the underlying story between the stakeholders in your
workplace? Is there any area where you have an opportunity to
rewrite that story and help it in the direction of more cooperative relationships?</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Romans chapter 12 verse 18: “If it is
possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-78612550339431382002013-10-21T07:27:00.001-07:002013-10-21T07:27:50.634-07:00Plebgate and police relationships<div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal">By Jeremy Swan<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Twitter: @Jez_Swan<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Quote<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">‘When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.’ Thomas Jefferson<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>News<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Recent developments in the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24548645"> ‘Plebgate’ scandal</a> in the UK have brought police relationships with politicians and the public into focus. In October last year Andrew Mitchell, then Conservative Chief Whip, was forced to resign over allegations that he called a police officer a ‘pleb’. Mr Mitchell repeatedly denied using the word, although he admitted to swearing in front of a police officer.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">On Wednesday the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) accused police of lying about a meeting they had with Mr Mitchell in an attempt to force his resignation and put pressure on the government to backtrack over police cuts. According to the IPCC, the police investigation into the incident had initially concluded there should be a misconduct inquiry, yet the final report was changed and said no action would be taken.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Our society expects high moral standards of those in public roles; trust is damaged when these standards are not met. Public trust requires that the law will be applied without partiality, and that there will be an unwavering commitment to truth and justice. In Mr Mitchell’s case it perhaps seems that some individuals were prepared to sacrifice justice in pursuit of their own interests.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">If these allegations against the police are proved to be true, we must ask whether the police can be trusted to regulate themselves, as they have been allowed to do in this case. How also might they repair the broken relationships with the public and the politicians?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">An apology to Mr Mitchell would be a good start.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Read on…<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">A recent IPCC statement about the police investigation can be listened to online by clicking <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10379850/Plebgate-evidence-police-lied-over-Mitchell-meeting-says-IPCC-report.html"> here</a>.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Walk the talk<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Acting with integrity allows trust to be built in our relationships, leading to stronger, more resilient bonds. Even if it comes at short term personal cost, investing in integrity will pay dividends in the long run.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>The last word<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">From the Bible, Proverbs chapter 20, verse 7: ‘The righteous who walks in his integrity – blessed are his children after him!’<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-44818112026852758092013-10-11T01:52:00.000-07:002013-10-14T01:52:56.340-07:00Big Brother and the whistle-blower<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>“People who live in
the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether
one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and
label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not
it is possible to live like a human being.” </span>Václav Havel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The face of fugitive Edward Snowden adorns the front page of
several papers in Britain today. The former CIA employee who leaked vast amounts
British and American intelligence data was pictured together with four
prominent American whistle-blowers at a secret location in Russia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The battle over the ethics of his actions rages in the press.<span> </span>The Guardian has been publishing the leaks to
expose the extent of eavesdropping by the intelligence services and force
greater accountability on them.<span> </span>On the
other hand, the Daily Mail accuses the Guardian of being ‘The paper that helps
Britain’s enemies’, and The Times headline states that Snowden’s leaks are the ‘worst
blow to British intelligence ever’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Both sides in the wider debate claim to act out of a sense
of responsibility, but more important is the question of proportionality.<span> </span>What is a proportional level of surveillance of
the US or UK population in order to intercept potential security risks?<span> </span>And when responsibility requires blowing the
whistle on corrupt or illegal actions, how much is it appropriate to divulge?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From a relational perspective, perhaps the crucial issue is to
consider what poses the greater threat to our lives and relationships in the
long run.<span> </span>Is it the threat of a sudden
attack from malevolent individuals, or is it the creeping tyranny from a
centralised state?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each threat is real, and many people in diverse countries have
painful experiences of both realities.<span>
</span>The challenge for whistle-blowers and governments alike is knowing how
to mount an effective defence against the one threat, without increasing the
likelihood of the other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s book about
‘Big Brother’ dominating a totalitarian state, have surged since Edward Snowden’s
leaks; you can read an overview of the events and context which shaped Orwell’s
thinking <a href="http://grantdoyle.wordpress.com/essays/orwell-and-totalitarianism/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk the talk</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you need to consider the proportionality of your response
to some particular threat?<span> </span>Be careful to
avoid the substitution of one danger for another.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Matthew chapter 24, verse 43: “But
understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the
thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be
broken into.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-21271198690073148642013-10-07T10:07:00.001-07:002013-10-07T10:07:58.049-07:00Stand and fight or sit and talk?<div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">By Jeremy Swan<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">Twitter: @Jez_Swan<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Quote<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.” Václav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>News<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">At midnight on 1<sup>st</sup> October the US government went into partial shutdown as the political stalemate over the federal budget rumbled on. Around 800,000 government employees were furloughed, National Parks were closed and the Department of Health’s annual flu programme was halted. There are fears that <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a73a3728-2f41-11e3-ae87-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2h2DSCN2A"> the US could default on its debts</a> if an agreement cannot be reached before 17<sup>th</sup> October. At the heart of this crisis is a failure of relationships.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">The main sticking point has been ‘Obamacare’ – for Democrats it is about providing affordable healthcare for the 15% of the population who cannot afford health insurance; for the Republicans it is an unwelcome intrusion into people’s lives which can only be financed through increased borrowing – and <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/06/time-for-house-gop-to-stand-and-fight-says-boehner/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed2Fcnn_politicalticker+3A+Political+Ticker)"> both sides are sticking to their guns</a>. They are playing party politics at a time when they should be trying to build consensus.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">The US political establishment, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22267758"> like other bicameral systems</a>, was built on the assumption that relational solutions would be found whenever such standoffs are reached. It was expected that leaders would work together for the common good, accepting the need for compromise and responsible leadership.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">This time, however, the implicit understanding between the parties has broken down as the centre ground in American politics disappears. One major implication is the effect on relationships between the US and other nations: the US has been forced to postpone trade talks with the EU; President Obama has cancelled his trip to Asia; sanctions against Iran become harder to enforce; and China watches on as the 17<sup>th</sup> October deadline looms.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">There is also the potential impact on relationships at a household level as the families of federal workers may come under financial strain, despite the promise of retroactive pay once the crisis has been resolved. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Read on…<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">In the wake of the US government shutdown a number of businesses have started offering <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/02/government-shutdown-freebies-furloughed-workers/2907221/"> freebies for the furloughed</a> – a great relational (and PR) response. Special offers include free burgers, free theatre shows and free knitting lessons!<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Walk the talk<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">Where you have a sharp difference in view from someone else can you consider the ‘knock on’ effect on other people and think about a consensual way forward?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>The last word<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">From the Bible, Mark chapter 3 verses 24-5: ‘If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.’<o:p></o:p></p> </div> Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-26380171582004672762013-09-20T08:56:00.001-07:002013-09-20T08:56:58.732-07:00The grim price of porn<div style="color: #aa1225; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The
only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do
wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will
take it of me.” Thomas Huxley</span><h4 style="color: #aa1225; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br />News</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Earlier
this month Ariel Castro, who kidnapped and sexually exploited three
women over a decade in Cleveland before their dramatic escape in May,
committed suicide in his prison cell. At his trial, Castro spoke of his
addiction to pornography. <br /><br />The internet porn explosion means
anyone can now access online content in their home or on a smartphone,
with little risk of detection or embarrassment. Porn accounts for 12%
of Google searches and 35% of downloads, and the industry reports that
demand is moving towards more and more violent content.<br /><br />Opponents
to curbing internet porn say it would be impossible practically, it
would undermine freedom, and there is no conclusive evidence that
pornography directly causes sexual violence. But what is the collateral
damage to our relationships?<br /><br />Exposure to pornography undermines
marriage; an obsessive interest in internet porn was cited in over 56%
of divorce cases in the US last year. Someone whose sexual norms are
established through pornography will bring unrealistic expectations into
a genuine sexual relationship; acting out fantasies may be more
important than building a tender, loving union.<br /><br />The
sexualisation of society – when soft porn is normalised in advertising,
media and entertainment – distorts young people’s identity by elevating
sexual attractiveness and performance above character, intelligence and
relational skills. Perhaps the greatest tragedy coming from society
slipping from soft porn to increasingly hard core sexual violence, is
the gradual destruction of the beauty, subtlety, sophistication and
creativity of relationships between men and women.<br /><br />What has
happened to our concept of freedom that we stand by while the profound,
intricate potential of our relationships is sacrificed so that people
can behave like animals on heat?</span><h4 style="color: #aa1225; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br />Read on...</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Further statistics and insights accompany a personal testimony about the social cost of pornography in this <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125382361" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125382361" target="_self">article </a>from the US.</span><h4 style="color: #aa1225; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If
you are struggling with this issue, you are far from alone – and yet
you may never have spoken to anyone about it. Do you need to bring
matters into the light with someone who will help, not judge you – or
might you offer that support to someone else?</span><h4 style="color: #aa1225; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br />The last word</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From
the Bible, Philippians 4 verse 8: “Finally, brothers and sisters,
whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is
pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is
excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.”</span>Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-10698642777727383012013-08-30T09:24:00.001-07:002013-08-30T09:24:40.083-07:00The King of dreams<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By guest contributor Jeremy Swan</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‘In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the
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save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.’ Abraham Lincoln</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On 28<sup>th</sup> August 1963, Martin Luther King stood
before a vast crowd of civil rights supporters in Washington DC and delivered
his famous ‘I have a dream’ address. In the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial he
spoke of his hope that his children would “one day live in a nation where they
will be not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Martin Luther King’s address is remembered as one of the
finest in modern history; one that still carries power today. Its profound
impact owes as much to King’s passionate oratory as to the strength of his
arguments. It is quite possible that the Civil Rights movement could have
unfolded very differently had the speech been a flop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">King used the language of his audience to build up rapport
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to Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers, and then built on a sense of
historical continuity by placing the Civil Rights movement in this context.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaking of his ‘dream’, he painted a picture of American
neighbourhoods and workplaces where black and white adults and children lived
together in reconciliation, acceptance and mutual respect. King could simply
have encouraged his followers gain freedom through violence, but instead he
spoke of “our white brothers” and urged campaigners not to drink from the “cup
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This emphasis on peace and reconciliation indicated a deep
concern for the common good of the races in American society. The Civil Rights
movement was not to be forged by narrow factional interest, but driven by a
vision of equality and a brighter future for all.<span> </span>How might this play out in areas of deep
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The full text of Martin Luther King’s Lincoln Memorial
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you have a clear vision for what you would like to see your
society look like in the future, one which is attractive not just to your
friends and neighbourhood, but to wider society as a whole? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Revelation chapter 21, verse 4: ‘He will
wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or
crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-64033687612433224052013-08-16T08:51:00.000-07:002013-08-30T09:20:20.174-07:00The clashes in Egypt can only inflame the crisis<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‘The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.’ Bertolt Brecht (German playwright and poet)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing in Friday Five last month, Jonathan Tame examined the <a href="http://fridayfiveblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/egypt-and-enigma-of-democracy.html"> relational underpinning of democratic structures</a> in Egypt and argued that the trappings of democracy are valued only insofar as they lead to greater freedom and prosperity. For some Egyptians therefore, the removal of President Morsi was justified by his apparent failure to secure these gains for society as a whole. Yet so far, the ouster has brought only political intransigence and relational rupture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The common ground established between the various groups in Egyptian society during the first days of the Egyptian Revolution is in danger of being lost as recent upheavals take their toll. The relational gaps in society, opened up during the rise and fall of Mohammed Morsi, can only widen as long as the current violence continues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As the clashes between security forces and protestors rumble on, the danger is that the violence becomes self-perpetuating and contributes to the further undermining of relationships in Egyptian society – hate begets hate, to use the words of Martin Luther King. For the benefit of the whole community, all sides must first exercise restraint and bring an end to the bloodshed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the major underlying issues of the Egyptian Revolution has been the lack of parity between the government and the governed. That sense of disenfranchisement which precluded the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 has since returned, with different sides each complaining that their voices are not being heard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a result, some people are driven to violence in the hope that they can force a solution to Egypt’s problems. They are wrong. Only when the violence has stopped and the process of reconciliation begun can the Egyptian people start to see their vision of a freer and more prosperous society take shape. Violence will only make things worse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Daniel Philpott, Associate Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, recently wrote a book entitled ‘Just and Unjust Peace’, in which he called for a season of reconciliation following the Arab Spring. Philpott discusses his ideas in a <a href="http://blog.oup.com/2012/07/the-arab-spring-needs-a-season-of-reconciliation/"> blog post</a> for Oxford University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the west, it is all too easy to take for granted our freedom to participate in public life. Yet the reality is that many people around the world do not share these same democratic rights. How are you exercising your democratic freedoms?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Matthew chapter 5, verse 9: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-67501897077286851692013-08-09T08:02:00.001-07:002013-08-30T09:20:51.898-07:00The relational effects of zero-hours contracts<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” Jerome K. Jerome<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests there could be around one million workers in the UK employed on contracts with no guarantee of work. The study found that 14% of people on such contracts were not given enough hours each week by their employer, and that people aged 18-24 and 55+ were twice as likely as other age groups to be employed on this basis. While the economic costs and benefits have been explored extensively in the media, the relational impact has been given little attention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First of all, there is the impact on working relationships. Where employees are contracted on a zero-hours basis the lack of continuity makes it harder for them to build strong relationships with colleagues and clients. This is likely to have major implications for client engagement and the team’s collective sense of purpose. It could potentially also create extra work for full-time staff members who would have to bring part-time staff up to speed. The use of zero-hours contracts tilts the balance of power firmly in the employer’s favour and smacks of injustice. Imagine asking a medic or vet to be ‘on call’ without receiving pay! Employees, meanwhile, may become less willing to engage constructively in a relationship that they deem to be unfair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then there is the impact on personal relationships. While zero-hours contracts offer flexibility they also create uncertainty. This makes it hard to plan social engagements as you are unsure whether you will be called in to work or not. With this uncertainty comes the danger of ‘continuous partial attention’, which is when we are not entirely present in encounters with others. A person gets distracted from the conversation because they are anxious that they may get a call requiring them to go into work. This reduces quality of time spent with friends and family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Employment, when viewed through a relational lens, is about giving up your freedom to develop relationships in return for financial reward. In the case of zero-hours contracts, workers are being asked to limit their relational choices while receiving no guaranteed financial remuneration. This is hardly a recipe for a person’s relational wellbeing, or helpful in creating a more relational society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The FT have produced a short video entitled ‘Profit vs Principles’, which looks at the increasing number of companies that have refocused their priorities away from profit and towards the welfare of suppliers, employees and the environment. The video can be viewed <a href="http://video.ft.com/2515782831001/Profit-vs-principles/Companies"> here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are you creating good working conditions for your employees or work colleagues that will benefit their relationships both in the workplace and in their personal lives?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, 1 Timothy chapter 5, verse 18: ‘The labourer deserves his wages.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-38535608014733300702013-08-02T08:45:00.001-07:002013-08-30T09:21:09.425-07:00Social media: taking relational responsibility<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology.’ Brian Solis (US author, speaker and analyst)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /> <br /> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The problem of internet ‘trolling’ (sending abusive messages online) reared its head again this week as it emerged that feminist Caroline Criado-Perez received hundreds of threatening messages on Twitter after successfully campaigning for Jane Austen to appear on the new £10 note. Threats of rape and violence were also sent to female <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-23523539">journalists</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23507680"> politicians</a> connected with the campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The strength of public feeling and support for the victims has been encouraging. Over 120,000 people have <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/twitter-add-a-report-abuse-button-to-tweets"> signed a petition</a> calling on Twitter to add a ‘Report Abuse’ button to tweets, which they hope will alleviate the problem. This demonstrates that most people recognise that a line has been crossed and are motivated to do something about it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Social media itself is not the problem, but it does present some issues. While the technology allows us to increase the number of social encounters in which we participate, it also makes it easier for some to hide behind a persona or veil of anonymity. For some, this ‘relational distance’ encourages the belief that they (like the ancestor of Gyges in Plato’s Republic) can act almost with impunity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The technology can also have the effect of reducing our relational awareness, which prevents normal social signals from being taken on board. In face-to-face dialogue participants have access to a wide variety of information about how they are being received – tone of voice, body language, social tension, and so on – and there is also a ‘shame factor’ that can prevent abusive behaviour from taking place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we tackle this issue? We cannot prevent people from posting abusive messages, but we can ensure that there is an effective mechanism in place to deal with them. This requires the co-operation of the law and social media providers. But we should be careful not to absolve ourselves of relational responsibility. By behaving appropriately online and encouraging others to do likewise, we can be part of the solution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Social networking is fundamentally about building relationships, and this leaves us with a choice: we can choose to big ourselves up at the expense of others, or we can use social media to develop healthy and positive relationships that are of benefit to wider society. It is clear that these abusive messages have caused distress to Ms Criado-Perez, and this should cause us to consider the effect that our own actions online have upon others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In Plato’s Republic, Glaucon recounts the story of the Ring of Gyges while discussing justice with Socrates. In the tale, the protagonist stumbles across a ring that makes its wearer invisible and therefore enables him to act with near impunity. The full story can be read </span> <a href="http://plato-dialogues.org/tetra_4/republic/gyges.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">here</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Abuse on social media sites is especially worrying for those with young children. Consumer group Which? have produced </span><a href="http://www.which.co.uk/baby-and-child/child-safety-at-home/guides/guide-to-activities-for-kids-online/top-social-networking-tips/"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">a guide</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> that provides tips on how parents can protect their children online.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have you given thought to how your behaviour online influences others? Are you behaving relationally towards others? When posting a message on a social networking site it is helpful to think ‘would I say this to the person face-to-face?’ If the answer is no, don’t post it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-17722302221954236732013-07-26T07:23:00.003-07:002013-07-26T07:58:54.059-07:00Royal relations<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">By guest contributor Jeremy Swan</span></span></span><br />
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people worldwide celebrated the birth of William and Kate’s first child this
week. The response was heartening – world leaders sent their congratulations, landmarks
around the globe were illuminated and, at its height, over 25,000 tweets were sent
every minute. But why has this story so captured our hearts, and what does this
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">Worldwide,
approximately 255 babies are born </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 115%;">every minute</span></a></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">. Yet almost all these births are only celebrated
by relatives and close friends. In the public sphere, normal family life is
seldom deemed newsworthy. More often, the family is affirmed in a negative
sense, when we hear of murders, divorce or tragic accidents. The birth of children
to celebrities may generate a minor news story, but the arrival of baby Prince
George swept every other headline away.</span></span></span></div>
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by vast numbers of ordinary people has, in a sense, validated our inherent belief
in the fabric of family life. People around the world feel they have permission
to rejoice publicly in the gift of new life because of who William and Kate
are. The relational distance between us and the royal couple is bridged by
their unpretentious and accessible demeanour. This sense of proximity is
strengthened by the fact that Kate is ‘one of us’: a commoner who was swept off
her feet by the charming young prince and (we hope) they will live happily ever
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the shared experience has brought people closer together and reinforced our
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Prince George was born for a lifetime in the public spotlight, and is third in
line to the British throne. Let us hope that his life will continue to do what
his birth has done: to reveal to us the
joy of commonplace family life and relationships, where the humdrum and the
magical meet. </span></span></span></div>
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parents and put their relationship under pressure. The National Childbirth
Trust offers information and support for new parents; view their resources </span><a href="http://www.nct.org.uk/professional/research/parenting/supporting-new-parents"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">here</span></a><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">.</span></span></span></div>
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look to you to play a meaningful role in their lives?</span></span></span></div>
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and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus... The Lord God
will give him the throne of his father David.”</span></span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-34717226111597658802013-07-05T03:29:00.000-07:002013-07-08T03:30:21.025-07:00Egypt and the enigma of democracy<div style="color: #aa1225; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“It
has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all
those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Winston
Churchill.<br /><br /><img alt="News" data-cke-saved-src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/www.jubilee-centre.org/images/Enews-images/FFnews.png" height="30" src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/www.jubilee-centre.org/images/Enews-images/FFnews.png" width="37" /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><b>News</b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It
took 18 days of mass street protests before Hosni Mubarak stepped down
as President of Egypt in 2011, but just four days of similar protests
this week led to the downfall of President Morsi. Both illustrate that
principle that ultimately no government can rule without the consent of
the people. But the puzzling question is why did the people of the Arab
Spring, who fought hard for democracy two years ago, appear to throw it
away by welcoming a military coup?<br /><br />Democratic structures and
procedures are like the visible part of an iceberg; one person one vote,
term limits on a government, and free and open elections are some of
the measurable elements of democracy, and essential to its success.<br /><br />However,
they must be underpinned by an invisible consensus of values, which are
essentially relational, for democracy to thrive. Every member of
society must accept to be governed by people they may not have voted
for, and to abide by laws they may disagree with. This is especially
challenging in countries with deep religious, ethnic or ideological
divides as in much of the Middle East.<br /><br />Events this week in Egypt
show that democratic elections are valued to the extent they lead to a
more free, open and prosperous society. That is the goal the street
protestors are seeking – and if, after a year of government by the
Muslim Brotherhood, a military takeover looks more likely to move the
country in that direction, then it is deemed acceptable.<br /><br />The
crucial challenge for Egypt in the coming months is to reconcile and
then strengthen the bruised relationships on which the future of its
fledgling democracy depends: between Muslim Brotherhood activists and
supporters of opposition parties, between Coptic Christians and Muslims,
between members of the security forces and ordinary Egyptians.<br /><br />Only then can there be any lasting foundation for a government of the people, by the people, for the people.<br /><br /><img alt="Read on..." data-cke-saved-src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/www.jubilee-centre.org/images/Enews-images/FFread.png" height="30" src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/www.jubilee-centre.org/images/Enews-images/FFread.png" width="37" /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><br /><b>Read on...</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
the late 1990s a remarkable Christian initiative called the
Reconciliation Walk sought to heal religious tensions in the Middle East
going right back to the Crusades. Read an interview with the walk’s
leader Lynn Green <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.charlesstrohmer.com/writings/interviews/lynn-green-muslims-christians/" href="http://www.charlesstrohmer.com/writings/interviews/lynn-green-muslims-christians/" target="_self">here</a>.<br /><br /><img alt="Walk the talk" data-cke-saved-src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/www.jubilee-centre.org/images/Enews-images/FFwalk.png" height="30" src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/www.jubilee-centre.org/images/Enews-images/FFwalk.png" width="37" /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How
well do you know individuals from a different, ethnic or religious
group? Why not take the initiative and do something to build a genuine
relationship with such a person, ideally from the Middle East, and seek
to understand their values and ideals?<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From
the Bible, Romans chapter 12, verses 17-18: ‘Do not repay anyone evil
for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it
is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.’</span></span>Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-32295117253151637902013-06-28T12:25:00.000-07:002013-06-29T12:26:16.696-07:00Payday Loans and debt slavery<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and
whip of the slavedriver.” Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary, 1911)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Britain’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred the
entire payday lending industry to the Competition Commission, based on a recent
review. <span> </span>The value of the industry has
spiralled from £900 million in 2008/09 to £2.2 billion in 2011/12.<span> </span>Up to 2 million people currently take out these
short term cash loans to make ends meet, at interest rates of typically 25% per
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When made and accepted responsibly, payday loans can be an
alternative to unauthorised overdrafts for urgent cash needs.<span> </span>However, 28% of these loans are not repaid at
the end of the month but are rolled over, when the costs start to spiral. <span> </span>Loans that are rolled over – often because
borrowers could not afford them in the first place – provide almost half the total
revenues of the industry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Part of the OFT’s criticism is on how payday loans are sold
– emphasising the speed and simplicity of getting cash, rather than the costs
and risks involved.<span> </span>Only 74% of lenders run
affordability checks on new clients; the figure falls to just 23% in the case
of extending a loan.<span> </span>This suggests that
lenders may not rely so much on prudent lending to ensure high repayment rates,
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another major criticism by the OFT is that many of the organisations
actually making the loans are concealed behind intermediary companies, agents
or brokers.<span> </span>Borrowers have to reveal all
their personal details, including mobile phone number, email and address, while
the actual lender remains obscure.<span> </span>This
relational distance is part of the reason why the number of complaints against
lenders has increased 10 fold in the last 4 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is an indictment on our society that we allow the
normalisation of business based on exploiting people’s naivety, hardship or desperation.<span> </span>Unmanageable debt is a major cause of mental
health problems and relationship breakdown.<span>
</span>Debt carries a relational as well as financial cost; alleviating it warrants
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An offshoot of the Occupy Campaign in USA is an imaginative
project to buy up a bundle of unpaid medical debts for a fraction of their face value, then
cancel them.<span> </span>Read more about the
Rolling Jubilee initiative <a href="http://www.rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are a growing number of charities that help people
manage their debts – providing relational support as well as financial
advice.<span> </span>Could you do something to
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Proverbs 22 verse 7: “The rich rule over the
poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-22264447708948907762013-06-14T11:30:00.004-07:002013-06-14T11:30:34.855-07:00Magnetic Mandela<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Despite having left the South African presidency in 1999 and
stepped out of public life nine years ago, the ailing Nelson Mandela is still a
central figure in South African politics and society.<span> </span>Not because he may hold some power behind the
scenes in the ANC, nor because he intervenes in political affairs.<span> </span>Rather it is due to the extraordinary
relational footprint he has left in the nation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The history of South Africa over the last 20 years could
have been very different had Mandela not been such a remarkable leader
relationally.<span> </span>Despite the inhuman conditions
of Robben Island prison, Mandela treated his captors with courtesy and respect,
to the point where some felt they were more like Mandela’s guests than his
jailers.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Following his release he engaged with the white government
leaders with dignity and courage, which slowly won their trust and allowed a
passage towards peaceful elections.<span>
</span>Mandela could so easily have been driven by bitterness, resentment and
anger which could have led the country towards showdown and civil war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other stories are still being told of how Mandela gained the
loyalty of the white elite by keeping the same security staff in the
presidential palace after coming to power.<span>
</span>The film Invictus tells how he earned the trust of the wider white population
by embracing the Springboks – who epitomised Apartheid – and enthusiastically supporting
their successful bid to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mandela’s domestic life was more troubled, and his first two
marriages ended in divorce. Nevertheless, his remarkable accomplishment of
uniting South Africans across racial and tribal divides, and leading them
peacefully from Apartheid to democracy, explains the enduring influence which this
frail 94 year old still exerts from his hospital bed – right round the world.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a magnetic power in this remarkable person; no
wonder no one wants to let him go. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Read on…</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The trial of Nelson Mandela in 1964 led to his 27 years of
imprisonment; read his remarkable speech at that trial, carefully documenting
the grievances of the black South African population and the ANC’s strategy
<a href="http://www.news24.com/NelsonMandela/Speeches/FULL-TEXT-Mandelas-Rivonia-Trial-Speech-20110124" target="_blank">here</a>.
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk the talk</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Treating people who are prejudiced against you with dignity
and respect can be transformative of the relationship; is there someone you
need to respond to in the opposite spirit? </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Matthew 5, verse 39: “<span class="red">You
have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ </span>But I
tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek,
turn to them the other cheek also.”</span></span></div>
Jonathan Tamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193069721828259926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785316894714308258.post-70503451064632145472013-05-24T09:07:00.004-07:002013-05-24T09:07:55.069-07:00The Woolwich murder: a relational dashboard<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and
concealed often hardens into revenge.”<span> </span>Edward
Bulwer-Lytton (British politician and novelist, 1803-73)</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">News</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday’s brutal murder on an off-duty soldier in London has
thrown up a wide range of reactions and responses which serve as indicators of several
key relationships in Britain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Positive scores:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span>The courage of members of the public who stopped
to help, one woman from Cornwall even engaging an attacker in conversation to
try and calm the situation; this suggests a good degree of solidarity across
communities in Britain</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Several Muslim community leaders were quick to
voice condemnation of the attack, as the perpetrators had delivered an Islamist
tirade at the scene.<span> </span>This points to a
strong desire by the Muslim community to distance itself from extremists and affirm
its shared values with the rest of the country</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The police who arrived on the scene showed restraint
as they didn’t shoot to kill, but instead to disarm, the attackers; this
measured response helped to limit the relational damage which might have
escalated if they had adopted a heavy handed approach (such as sparked of the
London riots in 2011)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The time, place and brutality of the attack and the
choice of victim suggests that the relationship between Islamist extremists and
the British armed services is dire to the point where individual humanity is
lost in the hatred generated by ideology</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">S</span></span>ensational media coverage has not served the
British public well; it gave a public platform to the jihadists which has led
to violent reactions by far right groups such as the English Defence League,
and may yet inspire copycat attacks on other members of the armed forces</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By waiting on the scene after the attacks and
letting themselves be filmed, the extremists successfully manipulated the media
and used them to magnify their message</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An analysis in the Guardian by a former Cobra staff officer today
suggests the government over-reacted by convening the highest national security
committee, Cobra, to the detriment of a number of relationships; read the
article <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/24/woolwich-murder-merit-cobra-treatment#start-of-comments" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walk the talk</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pathway to murder starts with resentment, leading to bitterness,
hatred and violence; are you aware of any growing resentment in the heart of
someone you know well, which you could help defuse?</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last word</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the Bible, Proverbs chapter 29 verse 8, “Scornful
people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath.”</span></span></div>
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