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Black Country Urban Industrial Mission - Workplace Chaplaincy Group sponsored by Christian Churches in the Black Country (UK) “Connecting Church & the Economy”

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Traffic management firm expands with Wolverhampton depot | https://t.co/4iC0T8c5iB https://t.co/qOc3AQ5f1y

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How do Industrial Chaplains listen and help? Alan Dein explores past and present of work and faith with 4 chaplains in very different work places (originally broadcast in May 22nd on BBC Radio 4)
https://t.co/gtLWjNKsBG

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How can anyone remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern for nine-tenths of their life?” 🧵4/4
(“Why Work”, Dorothy L Sayers, 1942)
The result is that most churches include very few working age people, and the situation only gets worse.

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May 1st is observed as the feast of St Joseph the Worker.
The church all too often fails to engage with the realities of the working world & the opportunities for Christian discipleship there.

Back in 1942, Dorothy L Sayers wrote… 🧵1/4

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“… …as result, the secular work of the world is turned to purely selfish & destructive ends, & that the greater part of the world’s intelligent workers have become irreligious, or at least, uninterested in religion.” 🧵3/4

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More on the Eternal Value of our Work as Christians, by R E Gehrlein
https://t.co/lsl9N7BpZJ

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Some wisdom from Bill Peel of 24Seven Faith.

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“The New Testament insists… that when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, something happened as a result of which the world is a different place. The early Christians insisted that when people are caught up in the meaning of the cross, they become part of this difference.”

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“Jesus died for our sins, not that we should sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God's plan to put his whole world right.” (Tom Wright, “The Day the Revolution Began”)

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£9.3m skills campus completed in Sandwell in the Black Country | https://t.co/4iC0T8c5iB https://t.co/61gTyZ4mru

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Smithgate breaks ground as funding falls into place - A major city-centre regeneration scheme in Wolverhampton has moved into the delivery phase.| https://t.co/4iC0T8cD89 https://t.co/cDBRl8ZjPq

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Marston's - based in Wolverhampton, Black Country- raises a glass to festive performance as new pub formats deliver results | https://t.co/4iC0T8c5iB https://t.co/CHm4IwgdEi

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USP Steels - in the Black Country - secures £2.9m to drive expansion forward | https://t.co/4iC0T8c5iB https://t.co/eiS387YxJS

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Great to see the Real Time Trains app is tracking the Christmas Special from North Pole International again.
The train formation is as interesting as ever.
I'm tempted to do some trainspotting at my local station - but it's too cold.

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D. #OTD 1687 Sir William Petty FRS. Rose from humble origins to eminent economist, physician, scientist & philosopher. Developed national incoming accounting & theories of money supply & velocity, foreign exchange & division of labour. Influenced Adam Smith & J Maynard Keynes.

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D. #OTD 1924 Catherine Osler, suffragist and social reformer. In 1903 she became President of the Birmingham Women's Suffage Society. During WW1 she was a member of executive of the Citizens Committee, which distributed grants to alleviate distress caused by the war.

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D. #OTD Philip “Tubby” Clayton, WW1 army chaplain in France & Flanders where he & Rev. Neville Talbot opened "Talbot House" a rest house for soldiers at Poperinge in 1915. Founder of TocH, later chaplain to British Petroleum Company.

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D. #OTD 1794 Robert Kaye Greville, botanist & mycologist. A determined abolitionist, he was one of the vice-presidents of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention. He compiled the Church of England’s 1838 hymn book.

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Three Parables to Encourage Us as We Wait For Jesus’ Return “…through our own vocational work. We are foreshadowing God’s ultimate work of restoration when he will truly make all things new…” via @faithworkecon