London and New York are the home of enumerable NGO’s[1], which is not surprising as these cities are premier (maybe, the premier) Western cities, largely due to them being colossal financial centres. 

You need to make money to give it away. 

Capitalism, for all its publicised failings remains the only significant conduit of charity; socialism, in its extremer versions, depletes nations, as it does not and will not recognise the aspirational values essential to our humanity that are espoused by the prosperous, and erstwhile Christianised West.  And remember which way people jumped at the Berlin Wall. 

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An Internal Memo

 

I am increasingly gob smacked, dismayed, at the utter folly of believers airing their grievances (petty or otherwise) to the media.  What are we thinking?  Or more to the point, what were we thinking? 

And if not the formal media, then social media, is being co-opted to publicize the short comings of God’s church – heaven knows there are a few.  We Tweet, we Facebook, we Whatever, our inability to forgive, and maintain the unity and integrity of God’s church. 

 

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The setting was all you’d hope for: formal rooms at a London botanical garden, sunshine in May (a bonus), and family and friends gathered to celebrate with bride and groom. Wonderful.

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