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‘Father Forgive’: Coventry Cathedral and my journey of discovery
The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest, and ugliest hour. Is the world steadily sliding back to the chaos of the 1930s?
At these times of personal, societal and global challenges, confusion, pain, fear, economic decline and many more uncertainties, coupled with the rise of populism, intolerance, protectionism, exceptionalism, pseudo-nationalism, and isolationism, we cannot, but turn to humanity and wisdom and learn from the healing story of Coventry Cathedral. Carpe diem!
‘To forgive is to set a prisoner free only to discover that the prisoner is you’- Lewis Smedes
'Forgiveness is the final form of love.'- Reinhold Niebuhr
“Father Forgive”: These two words which I discovered at the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in 1973 changed the course of my life.
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Trust and truth are manifestations of our humanity and goodness
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”- Leo Tolstoy
DAVOS, To Rebuild Trust You Must First Change Your Spots and Discover that you have Two Wings!!
‘Ill fares the land: to hastening ills a prey
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay’
These timeless words of Oliver Goldsmith, written in 1770, resonate all too easily in our era of a monetised, marketised, privatised, deregulated, self-regulated world, devoid of any moral and spiritual compass and sentiments, in which we find ourselves currently.
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Rebuilding Trust- Rebuilding Hope- Rebuilding a Better World
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Time for a Rethink
What is Economics and What is an Economist!
N.B.This photo is via the University of Minnesota, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, describing and promoting the Study of Applied Economics to all potential students who are 'Seekers, Doers, Makers and Dreamers' - ‘The Applied Economics major is designed to give you a solid foundation in economics and how it is applied in the real world to improve people’s lives. You will develop strong critical thinking skills, data analysis proficiency, and the ability to communicate your ideas in writing…’- Applied Economics (There you have it: A Professor of Economics imparting Wisdom to the Seekers, Doers, Makers and Dreamers!!)
“The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.”- Joan Robinson (1903–1983)
As Robinson with prophetic words and a lesson that to my mind resonates in today’s turbulent and unequal economy and society has reminded us: ‘the task of the economist is to combat the idea that the only values that count are those that can be measured in terms of money.’
Modern Economics today is a lost and confused soul
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