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"Father Forgive": These two words which I discovered at the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in 1973 changed the course of my life.
This is the Story of a Boy from Iran who became a Man in Coventry
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This is the story, “My Coventry Story”
Prof. Kamran Mofid
ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, Coventry Cathedral,
11 PRIORY ROW CV1 5EX
7.00pm Wednesday 26 July 2017
My Story is My Witness: A Story of Hope, Suffering and Hope again
(With special thanks and gratitude to Revd Canon Dr. Sarah Hills, Coventry Cathedral’s Canon for Reconciliation Ministry, for her kind invitation. I also thank the Reconciliation Ministry Team at St. Michael’s House for their support.)
Prof. Mofid and Cannon Hills, St. Michael's House, Coventry Cathedral, 26 July 2017
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Dear Canon Hills, distinguished guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen,
Good evening. Thank you very much Canon Hills for your very kind words of welcome. It is a great pleasure for me and for my wife, Annie, to be here tonight. I feel very nostalgic about this talk, returning to Coventry Cathedral, where my journey of discovery started all those years ago in November 1973.
Indeed, it is true, life is an incredible journey of discovery. There simply is no way to know everything that will happen in life before experiencing it.
The joy of finding the ‘Coventry Cathedral Story’ has been, as I will explain shortly, very highly motivational to me. There is no fun in life if we presume to know it all. It is this journey into the unknown and finding gems of truth along the way that makes life so interesting, worthwhile and meaningful.
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"Father Forgive": These two words which I discovered at the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in 1973 changed the course of my life.
Photo: Anne Mofid
This is the story, “My Coventry Story”
Prof. Kamran Mofid
ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, Coventry Cathedral,
11 PRIORY ROW CV1 5EX
7.00pm Wednesday 26 July 2017
My Story is My Witness: A Story of Hope, Suffering and Hope again
(With special thanks and gratitude to Revd Canon Dr. Sarah Hills, Coventry Cathedral’s Canon for Reconciliation Ministry, for her kind invitation. I also thank the Reconciliation Ministry Team at St. Michael’s House for their support.)
Prof. Mofid and Canon Hills, St. Michael's House, Coventry Cathedral, 26 July 2017
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'...In short, looking back, I believe one experience of that day, has had a major impact on me. That was when Annie (my future wife) and I were at the ruins of the old cathedral. I saw the ruined altar, with a charred cross, a replica of the original, it's burnt blackness in startling contrast to the clean polished wood of most church crosses I had seen in Oxford or London. Then on the wall behind the altar, I noticed two words that had been carved into the red sandstone, their letters a foot high: FATHER, FORGIVE.
I asked Annie: “Who is the Father?” and “Forgive who?” She tried to the best of her ability to answer me. But, I am sure she knew that I was not getting it:
Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, All in one! Forgiving the Germans, who had just destroyed the cathedral and the city! Wow! What next?!
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The world seems dangerously unmanageable these days. Look around you, crises everywhere and in everything. Above all, there is crisis of spirit, trust, morality and humanity. It seems, many have forgotten the art of what it means to be a human these days.
To my mind, this is all because of one thing, and one thing alone: NEOLIBERALISM, a form of extreme free market fundamentalism- an unusual concept, you might say, largely because it extends out of economics and into philosophy and the way people see the world. A system with no built-in mechanism to regulate the worst excesses of human nature. As Thatcher once said, “economics is the method, the aim is to change the soul”.
The pertinent questions, thus, must be:
What kind of economics it was that has so profoundly changed the soul?
Who were the economists that have brought us such a bitter, tragic harvest?
Who were the billionaires who bankrolled them, financed and established academic centres/thinktanks for them, giving them academic respectability, educating generations of fundamentalists, putting them in high-powered jobs everywhere, bidding for their masters’ ideas and visions?
If you are, like me, interested in these questions and more, then, the link below is where you will find the master key, which will unlock the door to the truth about the falsehoods, injustices and inhumanity of this bankrupt ideology of the so-called neoliberalism, its practitioners and financial supporters.
- Totalitarian, despotic economy, 1%Vs99%: Meet the economist and his backer, the architects of the global disaster
- Mother Nature Crying: Fools and Heartless those who do not see the tears
- What Can I teach my students in the age of Selfie, Isolation, Virtual friendship and loneliness?
- The Rise and Fall of neo-liberal Economic Globalisation
- The Money Gods: Economics Our New Religion