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April 8, 2020

Love, Charity, and Compassion

Lent - Week 5 - Compassion Whenever I think of Mother Teresa the first thing comes to my mind is her love and care for the needy. She demonstrated this through action. Her very life and her charitable mission in Calcutta,
April 7, 2020

What is Compassion?

Lent - Week 5 - Compassion What does the word compassion mean to you? Don’t panic if you find it hard to come up with a definition – it’s one of those words that many of us think we know what it means – until some
April 6, 2020

Right, Wrong, and Truth

Lent - Week 4 - Compass Acting as a moral compass means standing up for what you know is right, what you believe to be the truth. As Martin Luther King Jr said: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about thin
April 5, 2020

The Power of One

Lent - Week 4 - Compass When faced with many of the big issues that need changing in our world, we often feel inadequate.  However, we needn’t feel that we can’t make a difference. I first saw the picture below in
April 4, 2020

Why doesn’t God do something about …..?

Lent - Week 4 - Compass Following on from yesterday’s reflection on avoiding making decisions, we offer another Pontius Puddle cartoon as a follow up reflection…. Do you want to ask God that question about anythi
April 3, 2020

Avoiding making decisions….. – 7 golden rules!

Lent - Week 4 - Compass Acting as a moral compass in society necessitates decision making as to what we get involved in and what actions we take. How good are we at making decisions, especially those that might lead to
April 2, 2020

What moral decisions do you make every day?

Lent - Week 4 - Compass When filming the series of video interviews that we conducted for the Faith at Work course, we asked everyone what challenges they faced in their working or everyday lives. Some of their answers ar
April 1, 2020

The Four Tests of Moral Action

Lent - Week 4 - Compass How do you make difficult decisions? Peter Chao suggests that when making difficult decisions, we should imagine how our decision would be received by four different people representing differen
March 31, 2020

Decisions, decisions, choices, choices…..

Lent - Week 4 - Compass Week 4 of 'Faith At Work' is called “Moral Compass”, and seeks to explore how we can keep our integrity in our work, in our play, in our daily life in this modern and fast-changing world. B
March 30, 2020

Time for God

Lent - Week 3 - Clock There just never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done and you expect me to set some quiet time aside to spend with God in prayer. So said a young mother at a church meeti