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Archive: August 2009

The Cost of Living

Issue publishedAugust 2009 Author Tomi Ajayi

As the recession deepens, Third World countries are seeing aid and development reduced dramatically as agencies struggle with falling donations and a weaker pound. So could it be that, though it was a first world problem, it is yet again developing countries which are being hit the hardest?

Prisoners and Conscience

Issue publishedAugust 2009 Author Jonathan Langley

Restorative justice is being increasingly used in Britain. So is it the 'soft on crime' option, or a more powerful form of justice?

'Blessed are the poor in spirit'

Issue publishedAugust 2009 Author Ruth Dickinson

Heidi Baker has devoted her life to serving the poor in Mozambique, but she also sees great poverty in the western world

Power and Privilege

Issue publishedAugust 2009 Author Ruth Dickinson

Ruth Dickinson on choosing activism over apathy

I was raped as a teenager

Issue publishedAugust 2009 Author Margaret Ellis

At the age of 16 I was suffering with depression. Things got so bad I tried to OD on my anti depressants but I was suddenly filled with fear so I went to my church youth worker, I passed out just after I arrived. The next thing I remember is waking up with him touching me. He told me that if I ever told anyone what he had done then he would tell my family about my OD. He then raped me. I tried to avoid him from then on but he managed to find ways to get me on my own and he did it again a number of times...