We’re told that right now home is the safest place for us to be. That home is our sanctuary during the outbreak of this global pandemic. However, for the millions of people across the world, predominantly women, who experience domestic violence, this understanding of home is far from their …
How can you self-isolate without a house?
Image: Decode Homeless, Twitter Homelessness is always a moral failure for society. At JPIT, we’ve talked before about why a home is ‘more than bricks than mortar’. Housing is central to a person’s ability to flourish. Right now, though, there’s an extra reason why dealing with the …
Supporting everyone during the Coronavirus crisis
The response to COVID-19 has seen the government take unprecedented measures to strengthen the support available for those who need it. Changes have already been made to Statutory Sick Pay. The government have announced a job retention scheme, offering grant support for employers to retain employees …
‘Damning’ Windrush report is published
“A toxic combination of immigration policies, Home Office culture, and individual and institutional failings made this scandal almost inevitable.” The government has published the independent report into the Windrush scandal. This was commissioned in 2018 after it came to light that some of those …
How to help foodbanks under pressure
The Coronavirus pandemic is placing pressure across society. This is increasingly affecting the most vulnerable in our communities, who are finding it harder to access the support they need. Already, more families need help from foodbanks. For some people work has dried up and the benefit system …
Nine years of war in Syria – a call to pray
This weekend marks the ninth anniversary of the civil war in Syria. While Europe worries about a new wave of refugees, the humanitarian crisis around the city of Idlib goes largely unreported. Many came to Idlib from other parts of Syria when the area was relatively safe. Now shells and …
Should the Church be ‘Woke’?
Woke-ness, white privilege, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, mansplaining, ‘cancel culture’, #MeToo, micro-aggressions, tokenism. These terms, and the arguments which go along with them, have often come to be grouped together under the term “identity politics”. On a basic level, …
What are women worth?
The unpaid economy Adam Smith, well renowned philosopher and economist, is often considered one of the founding fathers of modern economic thought. But who was there cooking his dinner? His mum! Kate Raworth in her book ‘Doughnut Economics’[1] uses Adam Smith’s story as an example of the …
Statement from Church Leaders ahead of 31st January 2020
On Friday 24th January, Church Leaders released a joint statement regarding the UK’s imminent exit from the European Union. This was accompanied by a letter from Church Leaders addressed to partner Churches and Church organisations in Europe. Statement from British Church leaders and …
Meet Your Newly Elected MP
⁶ This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour. 8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except …