Author Archives: David Taylor
Meeting our Members: Faith and Fire
In December last year we were privileged to be able to meet with a number of our FaithAction members, including a fantastic organisation known as Faith and Fire. Faith and Fire is an independent partnership between some FRS Fire and Rescue Services and faith communities […]
Homelessness: it isn’t just for Christmas.
I read today that the average life expectancy of a homeless person in the UK is as low as 47, compared to the average of 81 for the rest of the UK. To look at it another way, if we took homeless people as a […]
The Unrecognised Potential of Faith
I may have not been around FaithAction for long, but I have observed something that bugs me a tad. It’s faith-based organisations (FBOs) not being realised for the potential that they have, whether it being others recognising them or them recognising it themselves. Very often […]
Loud and Proud: Faith’s achievements and why I won’t stay silent
When we talk about being proud of something, we all too often mistake it with an arrogant pride. C. S. Lewis describes pride as the ‘central sin’ and warns against it. But I want to encourage faith groups that it is time to be proud, […]