Guest blog by Bruna Kadletz, Associate Fellow of St Ethelburga’s and Director and co-founder of Circles of Hospitality in Brazil “In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.”   Kobayashi Issa On Sunday, November 25th, thousands of asylum seekers from Central America walked toward the American border….

Guest blog by Elizabeth Arif-Fear who volunteered in Calais with the Sacred Activism Programme  There’s a powerful Swahili proverb that says: “Unity is strength, division is weakness”. What a simple yet prominent thought! The concept of “strength in numbers” is something that most of us would definitely agree is a…

Every year we throw open our doors to celebrate St Ethelburga’s Feast Day with friends and neighbours.  At this year’s service a warm and poignant address was given by Revd Dave Tomlinson. “Ethelburga left behind no great treatise on Christian doctrine…but a legacy of compassion and social justice.  Actually, this…

Justine Huxley shares the ‘Four Stories of St Ethelburga’s’ and the values they represent.  She writes about how those values are embedded in the fabric of our building and its unique history, and how they form the organising principle behind our work.   When the founder of St Ethelburga’s Centre,…