Michael Binyon, Trustee of St Ethelburga’s and writer for The Times, reflects on reconciliation in Rwanda. How can reconciliation be put into practice? How can societies deal effectively with hatred in their midst? No country in modern times has been convulsed by murderous atrocities as frenzied and terrifying as the…

Climate crisis and systems collapse is no longer a distant scenario. What does it mean now to work for a different future? The need to make our activism sacred is more imperative than ever before. This month something in the understanding of the future of our civilisation shifted. As someone…

Excerpt from Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change edited by Dr Justine Huxley (launch date 7th and 9th March 2019) Working with the younger generation at St Ethelburga’s has been about shifting from talking to doing. For me, this is the most important and refreshing quality of Generation Y and at…

I’ll begin with a wartime Christmas story.   Late in 1942, the German Sixth Army reached the pivotal city of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front. Both sides knew that they must not lose the fight. Winter was setting in, but Hitler decreed that the city had to be taken regardless…