New Statesman Leading Articles

EDM number 1888 in 2010-12, proposed by Peter Bottomley on 09/06/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Religion and faith communities.

That this House, having noted with interest the articles by Dr Rowan Williams as guest editor of New Statesman 13 June 2011 on the values of faith-based rather than faith-exclusive big society activity in the arena of international aid and the consolidation of civil society institutions and in the consideration of policy at home `that is not about the poor as objects of kindness but about the nature of sustainable community, seeing it as one in which what circulates - like the flow of blood - is the mutual creation of capacity, building the ability of the other person or group to become, in turn, a giver of life and responsibility', recommends that the media, politicians and the public give attention to the Archbishop'slectures, sermons and books.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.