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I know what you’re thinking, catchy title.

Since writing my ‘relationships that heal society’ post back in February, there has been much talk of David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’.

In many ways, this was presented as the UK Conservative Party’s lynchpin policy that launched their election campaign. But it isn’t wholly unfair to describe it as a wholesale flop. People didn’t get it. I still don’t think people have really understood it. Maybe it’s too ‘conceptual’ an idea to capture the imaginations of the British electorate in an era of soundbites?
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Spot on.

Thought provoking stuff from Fry:

STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on Vimeo.

Inspired by Tom Wright’s Virtue Reborn, I’ve been finishing off our whistle-stop tour of Galatians:

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Despite the protestations from the Mrs, Tomatoes are a fruit, technically. Get the PDF here.

I love this image of Rembrandt’s Prodigal Son returning to his father. I’m also really enjoying our series on Galatians at the moment:

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