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Countryside at the crossroads. An ABC of agricultural change.

  Village Hope’s and Agricultural Christian Fellowship’s joint webinar on ‘Countryside at the crossroads – an ABC of agricultural change’ took place on 30 October 2021. Below are links to the presentations. More will be added in due course, so please revisit this post. The Agriculture Act 2020, John Wibberley.

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Countryside at the crossroads. The Agriculture Act 2020.

Countryside at the crossroads – an ABC of agricultural change.  Village Hope & Agricultural Christian Fellowship webinar, 30 October 2021 The Agriculture Act 2020, John Wibberley [1]View John’s slides here   Biblical pointers for agricultural policy The Bible gives us much guidance in these matters (Jones, 1991; Jones & Martin,

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Countryside at the crossroads. Farming & trade after Brexit

Countryside at the crossroads – an ABC of agricultural change.  Village Hope & Agricultural Christian Fellowship webinar, 30 October 2021 Farming & trade after Brexit, Ian Tremain [1]View Ian’s slides here In June 2016 the British public were given the vote at the ballot box via a referendum to confirm

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COP26. Is there any word from the Lord?

In the first two weeks of November, leaders from 197 nations will assemble in Glasgow to decide what to do about ‘climate change’. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will be the largest gathering of world leaders ever to take place on British soil. In addition to the

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Eternal spring

February is usually the coldest month of the year. Yet, already gorse, snowdrops and coltsfoot, willow and hazel catkins, and the songs of thrush and blackbird, show that the earth is waking up and spring is coming soon. And, as the 19 C poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) wrote, “nothing

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Gardening the heart. 3 – Outdoor church

The Sermon on the Mount, a perfect example of outdoor church, is a transformative example of how Jesus modelled interconnectedness with creation and mediates God’s truth and love through teaching, discipleship and healing, more often than not, outdoors. He freely moved between indoor and outdoor congregational gatherings and group meetings

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