In her fabulous book, The Empathy Fix: Why Poverty Persists and How to Fix it , Dr Keetie Roelen writes of how, ‘poverty isn’t a problem ‘out there’, in someone else’s world. It’s a crisis within our own societies and communities’. A crisis which involves action, a response to the injustice that it is staring us in the face. For the last 11 and half years my husband Richard and I, along with many incredible, faithful volunteers, have led and been involved in Soul Food meals that have...

For the last time, this Advent, we gather our week’s blessings, and declare them together: May we be willing to receive the unexpected...