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#BIGRead14: Doing Justice

Image Source: The Worship Cloud
Image Source: The Worship Cloud

#BIGRead14

Today’s poem focuses upon justice – and the slightly overwhelming feeling that there are so many types of justice we should be focusing on:

Criminal justice.
Social justice.
Economic justice.
Retributive justice.
Restorative justice.
Generational justice.

For years I’ve looked out for Fairtrade items, but there are so many things we can be doing .. I think each time, I have to reduce it to what is my decision, today, with this thing, and try and think how it might affect someone else… can be tough, and I certainly don’t get it right, but each time I make a ‘good’ choice, it makes a small but significant difference!

#Do1NiceThingTake some flowers to mothers and grandmas on your street // Ah, it’s Mothering Sunday … I do like the idea at churches that everyone gets some flowers I have to say. As I say about my book – we all have responsibility for other’s children, even if we don’t have any ourselves…

Maggi Dawn

Jesus’ Mother and Brothers

46 While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. 47 Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”

48 He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 12:46-50

An impassioned piece from Maggi to change the focus from Mothers’ Day (as reshaped by the greeting card industry) back to its origins as ‘Mothering Day’ – when people returned to their home community and ‘mother church’, rather than a sense that only mothers are ‘real women’. Lots to think on …

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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