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‘Salvation’ in biblical Greek is the word we use to translate from sótéria and eiréné. The former gave rise to theologies of fall and redemption, while the latter suggests oneness, peace, quietness and rest, four aspects intrinsic to wholeness and unity in Love – for me, salvation’s true meaning.
Four Friends are on trial this week for their witness at an arms fair in Telford.
I am not really a tailor, but this is a story about tailoring, of sorts, and mostly about the power of the human spirit.
Daci Temple in downtown Chengdu neatly captures the paradoxes of modern China. It is a shrine for a religion whose adherents aspire to rise above materialism, but set within a shopping mall. Many of the worshippers carry bags advertising western brands. It is, however, an oasis of sorts, since the sound of construction and traffic is muted rather than silenced.
What’s the law on loitering?
(with or without intent?)
Does he commit offence, who
summer, autumn, winter, spring,
swings his soiled sleeping bag
into a shop doorway and curls
inside it in a drug-drenched sleep?
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