MATTERS IN THE AIR – these notes compiled by Rev Canon Peter Challen are posted at http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/, and contribute background information for the Global Table, which continues on Wednesdays from 12noon to 2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ – now hosted by the Open Research Group – meetings are open to all on a drop-in basis.  This weekly forum is a persistent focal point for many who cannot often get to London, but are encouraged in bold initiatives by association and collaboration. We all continue to foster the public sense of the search for inclusive justice. We are trying to sense the richness of our networking without overburdening with detail. We collaborate in order that action may flow BOTH in specified targeted initiatives AND in acknowledgment of our shared commitment to ending exploitation – usury!

Notes of 30th November 2016 meeting – OpenResearchGroup-161130
Notes of 7th December 2016 meeting: OpenResearchGroup-161207

Warmest seasonal greeting to all associates of the London Global Open Table, 2016.  Allowing for the poetry of a vocative, evocative, provocative force hiding under the shadow of the human metaphor God, I trust you will enjoy this form of seasonal greeting……….

NATURAL NATIVITY

A reminder lies in every birth

of ‘prior unity’ maturing in infinite variety

to reach unique new life born of earth’s community,

existing only because life evolves,

emerging over aeons from star dust.

The Golden Rule, so attractive universally,

and held supreme in every faith tradition,

is dangerously flawed; its golden element is ruled

in our day by Idolatry, all values monetised,

its cosmic context ignored.

The Double Commitment, required for earthly health

shows cosmic universality of God as essential context

within which all life is neighbourliness,

nothing out of reach of manifested godliness,

hope for the world.

So annually at Christmas humans deliberately recall

a child born to become exemplary,

manifesting potential in each human child,

ever loyal to cosmic Godliness,

in perceiving stories everywhere

of right relationships.

Stories of the nature of the reign of common good,

so often compromised, but here offered as

a new beginning for old truth

the inextricability of loving creativity and all neighbourliness

as being of ourselves.

So overrule the Golden Rule

restore the vitality of a Double Command

a commitment for all, in every way,

to love all creativity: and, in that context alone,

to rediscover the kin[g]dom of Godliness on earth.

 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS: http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/forthcoming-events

Momentum are hosting a night of music and politics at the Brighton Dome on 16th December. Crossing genres and generations, the headliners will be drawn from international talent such as the psychedelic rock band Temples, Mercury prize nominee Kathryn Williams and the legendary Paul Weller playing alongside long time collaborator Paul Wyatt. Book HERE.

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Luis T. Gutiérrez – MOTHER PELICAN  – MISSION STATEMENT –  The mission of this web site is to collect, organize, and analyze information on sustainable development, with especial focus on integral human development; and to publish monthly updates via the Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability. Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability – the.pelican.web@gmail.com http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv12n12page1.html

The current journal of the RSA – available to 27,000 Fellows – carries an editorial, some 5 searching articles and a pertinent book review on ‘An inclusive economy‘. It provides impressive background to our shared search for an integrated ‘peoples political-economy’. It is strong evidence that there is a significant movement towards the critical mass needed to ‘use the system, to become the system, to change the system, and so restore trust’. Reports on your particular contribution are warmly invited. 

Can anyone report on this event, please? British Constitution Group: Justin Walker has recently circulated a new: Winchester Declaration with a substantial Media Briefing and an Open Letter to Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Lord Chancellor