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Many of us witnessed the extraordinary scenes in the Oval Office when Donald Trump (aided and abetted by J D Vance) tore into Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. Their shredding of the visiting president was uninhibited and shocking: two powerful men tearing into a third like hungry wolves.
Since the wars of 1996, violence in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has become normalised. But there are people working for peace, now, amid the military conflict.
Life is a changeable thing, after the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow.
After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life’s cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.
When I read The Dignity of Difference by Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi, what came through to me was that we human beings are extremely varied in what resonates with us. Some like classical music, others hiphop or afrobeat. I was a teacher of mathematics, but not all my students shared my joy or aptitude for the subject! This difference also goes for spiritual propensity – forms of worship and beliefs are many and varied. Having a diversity of religious practices and worldviews give us pivotal contrasts.
Peacemakers, a branch of Central England Area Meeting, is delighted to be launching a new improved edition of our popular resource Learning for Peace. This peace education resource for primary schools is packed with activities, games and approaches that can be built into any school or classroom.
Supporting local life-drawing
Friends were mentioned in The Telegraph on 16 February in the story: ‘Row as nude models told to put clothes on at life-drawing class.’
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