QUOTES FROM THE MEDIA
FOLLOW THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL’S LEAD AND CREATE BETTER HOUSING, SAYS WELBY The Archbishop of Canterbury has praised a community housing development on Duchy of Cornwall land at Nansledan, in Newquay. The project was devised by Prince Charles, the Duke of Cornwall, to pioneer best housing practice... Nansledan is a community of about 4,000 homes, with employment space for a similar number of jobs, integrated within the development so that local goods and services can be accessed within a five-minute walk of every home. Almost one third is affordable housing, which is indistinguishable from open market homes. The development also incorporates community facilities, including a primary school, nursery, play areas and green space... Archbishop Welby said that it had been wonderful to see not just new housing ‘but homes that provide jobs, build strong community and work in harmony with the natural environment’. ‘Where we live is so vital to our health, wellbeing, opportunities and flourishing... I hope the Church can be inspired by what’s been achieved at Nansledan, and use its land and resources to build homes that encourage neighbourliness, commitment to place and sustainable futures.’ Church Times
DIVERSITY IS ‘POSITIVE GIFT’ SAYS CHRISTIANS AWARE CONFERENCE
SCOTTISH GOV APPOINTS FIRST NATIONAL ADVISER ON SPIRITUAL CARE
Diversity is a ‘positive gift’ to be welcomed, delegates at a Christians Aware conference on the issue were told... The educational and religious charity ... works with other faiths and the secular world on the promotion of justice and peace. Conference chair, Bishop John Perumbalath of Bradwell ... called for humility in engagement with other faiths in order to transcend religious divisions. ‘We live in a world where diversity is a problem to be solved rather than an issue to embrace as a positive gift,’ he said. He called for a move beyond dialogue and to work together on issues of the common good... Professor Anthony Reddie, director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, and a leading black theology scholar, addressed transcending cultural divisions and called on the gathering to face the issue of racism in Britain.
The Scottish government has appointed its first national adviser and operational lead on spiritual care. Mark Evans will be responsible for ... the development of spiritual care policies as well as making sure the same standards of spiritual care are followed in all national health boards. He currently works as strategic lead for spiritual care and bereavement at NHS Fife and is the head of the Diaconate Council of the Church of Scotland... [Evans] said his main priority is to develop a national strategy and policy for spiritual care and health care chaplaincy for NHS Scotland ... [that] ‘will cover everything from recruitment to education, to training to service delivery’. He also said he wants to work on ‘setting up ... a multidisciplinary national board made up from key stakeholders, which will give operational and strategic oversight to development of spiritual care in NHS Scotland’.
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BORDERS BILL WILL MAKE ASYLUM SYSTEM ‘MORE COMPLICATED AND CUMBERSOME’ The UK’s asylum system will become less, not more fair under proposed legislation, the Bishop of Durham has warned. Speaking in the Lords, Bishop Paul Butler said he supported the aims of the Nationality and Borders Bill in seeking to stop criminal gangs and increase fairness in the asylum system but said that in its current form, the legislation would have the opposite effect... ‘It will make the asylum system more complicated and cumbersome, be less fair, provide fewer safe routes and be more expensive.’ The bishop said there was ‘no evidence’ to support the assumption that fewer people would attempt to come to the UK if the system is made harder. Christian Today
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