Inside Stories: stories of resilience during the pandemic is a series of conversations with people who have been displaced by war, conflict or persecution about their lives, thoughts and hopes for others. As a young woman in post revolutionary Iran, Nasrin Parvaz was arrested for her political activism and spent…

Engaging with the COVID-19 pandemic from a place of care for others. Guest blog by Bruna Kadletz, Associate Fellow of St Ethelburga’s and Director and co-founder of Círculos de Hospitalidade (Circles of Hospitality) an initiative working with refugees in Brazil. On my way to the airport, my breath deepened in…

Guest blog by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D., author of ‘Spiritual Ecology, the Cry of the Earth’. The bush fires raging across Australia have given climate crisis a new word: omnicide. Rather than just ecocide, our deliberate destruction of the natural environment, omnicide, images a crime “we have previously been unable to…

Guest Blog by Ella Sibley Ella recently participated in Act: Speak: Inspire, a programme of St Ethelburga’s where participants volunteer in Calais and return to the UK to give powerful talks that cultivate empathy and grow their audience’s understanding of displacement and the plight of refugees.  Ella lives in southeast…