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⚓️ 📕 🕯️ We had a good time tabling tonight. Shoutout to @thehourmag.bsky.social for coming in clutch with some prayer cards. 🫡

Shout out about tonight’s reading group - what is the work of a #socialist #Christianity in times like these?

Join us 6:30pm BST!

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A wood cut by Walter Crane of various workers holding hands, dancing around the globe withe a ribbon around it saying "Solidarity of Labour", with the names of continents in other ribbons, words like "fraternity" and such. At the bottom the words "Labour's May Day: Dedicated to the Workers of the World"

Happy May Day! Workers of the world, unite!

An image depicting the dialectic of Church history according to the Catholic Commonwealth

The end of the end of history

We’ll be meeting tomorrow evening, 6:30pm GMT. Join us!

Agenda items are:

- talk on fascinating #Christian #Socialist histories learned from folks at @thehourmag.bsky.social
- planning for the May conference
- reviewing shout outs for Palestine fundraisers and an anti-fascist demo in Nuneaton

Wrote a reflection about this years ago for @thehourmag.bsky.social

www.thehourmag.com/post/a-home-...

"This appeal to charity, whenever it is greatly in evidence, is a sure sign that things have got wrong. It always means that the individual right [to property] is treated as absolute in itself, and has escaped out of its proper subordination to the demands of justice"
- Henry Scott Holland

4) "Finally, the message to the churches must surely be that at a time of growing anti-Semitism, the Church must rediscover its essentially Jewish roots & the Jewish basis of its Gospel"

3) "there needs to be local action in the deprived & neglected areas which are the breeding ground for fascist groups...In short, fascism cannot be defeated from a distance by people who are remote from the problem it manifests"

2) "a recognition that one cannot fight fascism w/out building socialism...it is not enough to say that we fight fascism first & build socialism afterwards"

In turn, there are four tasks which are urgent in response to creeping fascism

1) "the need for rigorous & continuous analysis of what is happening, for disciplined monitoring of the activities of racist and fascist groups"

4) "international anti-Communist movements"

5) "grass roots racialist & "populist" organizations which exploit fears & resentments...and organize them into racial hatred and intolerance"

3) "there is the activity of those strong vested interests which organize to defend the established structures and resist threats to their security & power. These may include anti-trade union groups, attacks on the welfare state, & para-military defense organizations"

2) "there are movements which attempt to identify & attack minorities & lay blame on them in a blanket way"

1) "religious movements which confuse Christianity with western society and its values...(It is here that the stress on the sexual area can be very dangerous)"

KENNETH LEECH | CHRISTIANS AND FASCISM

According to Kenneth Leech, there are five areas of activity which contribute to the growth of a Fascist movement: www.thehourmag.com/post/kenneth...

The first week's meeting was a blast. There are 47 people in the reading group, which is 45 more people than I expected

This Sunday we're reading selections from W. D. P. Bliss, F. D. Maurice, and Percy Dearmer!

Of course! DM us if you want in

Yeah, you could write comments on the readings!

7pm CST

Consider joining! I’m looking forward to it.

Epiphany Reading Group The Hour Magazine is hosting an 8 week reading course & discussion group that will cover the basics of Anglican Socialism

It's not too late to join the reading group! First meeting is Sunday, and we've only one essay to cover this first week. ⚓🕯️📕 #CofE #anglican www.thehourmag.com/post/epiphan...

It’s gonna be great

Epiphany Reading Group The Hour Magazine is hosting an 8 week reading course & discussion group that will cover the basics of Anglican Socialism

A post about the reading group announced yesterday

www.thehourmag.com/post/epiphan...

Should definitely post this to the Narthex, huh?! 📕🕯️⚓️ #anglican

Ok should be working now

Wood block images of the angels' announcement to the shepherds and text that says "Anglican Socialism, A Reading Course presented by The Hour Magazine

This Epiphany The Hour Magazine is hosting an eight week reading course and discussion group that will cover the basic history and thought of Anglican Socialism. It is for those who would already consider themselves a Christian Socialist and those who don’t. A participant should expect to read around 25-75 pages a week and meet for Evening Prayer and an online facilitated conversation for about an hour on the Sunday evenings of Epiphany. This first round is offered at no cost to all through the support of the Hour’s Patreon members. To learn more or to sign up you can DM thehourmag.bsky.social or email tonydhunt@gmail.com

A big announcement! This Epiphany we are offering an 8 week reading course and discussion group open and free to all. DM us or email tonydhunt@gmail.com for an invite or more information

Alright we had a bunch of followers on the other website and we know we've got more listeners out there. Help us get the word out! Are you into Christianity and socialism? Cool interviews with weird theologians? Occasional content about medieval bones? Have we got a show for you!

As Herbert McCabe said: "The class struggle is not something we are in a position to refrain from. It is just there; we are either on one side or the other. What looks like neutrality is simply a collusion with the class in power."

But I thought then, and still think, that shifting Christians out of a merely aesthetic posture, of tepid political commitments, is essential. "Neutrality" in the face of such machinations is support for them