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'Bags of fish for cats - 50 pence'. So it was written, on a
chalkboard sign outside a fresh fishmonger's, under the arches of
the raised promenade along the beachfront of England's newly super
trendy and booming seaside City of Brighton and Hove. In Brighton
Babylon, PK Heights is a Grade II listed maisonette flat in one of
the City's up and coming Regency Squares that provides the elegant
base for a series of interlocking true stories about the city's
people and their lives. Newly relocated from London, Brighton
resident Peter Jarrette combines and intertwines his stories, using
a colourful palette that is one part Brokeback Beach and three
parts seawater. He vividly portrays a selection of suspect
characters and shocking episodes; much like the curious bits and
pieces that might be on offer in one of those bags of fish for
cats. To the author's consternation, the residents and visitors are
a thoroughly peculiar and motley crew. This former string of south
coast fishing villages with a royal and decadent past may now be a
thoroughly cosmopolitan City and even aspire to being an
international hub, but it has not yet lost its renowned and
celebrated dark side, far from it. Brighton Babylon is populated by
a cast of unsavoury hobos and bother boys; Yardie obsessed golden
shower webmasters from nearby Crawley; mistakenly racist London
hairdressers; strangely scripted market researchers; extemporised
short-haul cabin crew; pushy airline First Officers; politically
incorrect new food emporia; a vengeful, crumbling resort Pier and a
locally obsessed, cat-mad press pack.
A clarion call and evidence-based reparations plan for churches
engaged in dismantling racism. Christian churches, schools, and
organizations committed to a reparations plan can learn how to do
it--including how to support local, Black-led organizations working
on economic empowerment. This is a much needed resource as churches
have acknowledged generations of participation in systemic and
structural racism and are looking for specific ways to action
responsibility. This engaging book show how these plans are being
lived out in congregations across the country. Written by a white
priest called to pastor an historically Black congregation in
Washington DC, Reparations: A Plan for Churches provides spiritual
resources and practical tools for dioceses, and other institutions,
who are poised to seize this crucial moment. By drawing from
examples of steps being taken by congregations and others, this
guide also centers the counsel, voices, and teaching of Black
scholars, activists, and many denominations of Christians. From
this vantage, the book shows Christians how to make the work of
restitution a reality by honest fact-finding and truth-telling,
substantive and sustained engagement with those to whom reparations
are owed, clear statements about what reparations are, and focused
action to begin the work.
A personal journey of a priest's understanding of his Whiteness
widens into an invitation to wrestle with larger cultural issues of
race and belonging With humor, and a sharp, easily-readable style,
Peter Jarrett-Schell delves deeply into how Whiteness has shaped
his life. By telling his story, he challenges readers to personally
consider the role of race in their own lives. In recent years,
white institutions, congregations, and individuals have all begun
to wrestle with their racial legacy. But these reflections often
get lost abstracting ideas of "white privilege," "white fragility,"
"structural racism," and the like, until they become nothing more
than jargon. This book challenges its readers to look closely at
how these concepts show up in their everyday lives. By examining
how Whiteness has distorted his own perceptions, relationships, and
sense of self, Jarrett-Schell argues for the personal stakes that
white people have in dismantling racism, and offers the creative
possibilities that emerge when we begin to do the work.
"Zlavik" tells the story of how Allen Ford loses his older brother
in a horrific accident, and then spends the next twenty years of
his life searching for the meaning of that event and a new brother.
Allen meets Zlavik Johnson, a gifted, charismatic but troubled man
who confides that he hears a special voice that has told him that
he has to complete three special tasks. The two men forge a bond
with Zlavik becoming Allen's spiritual mentor, as they start a
journey of discovery. One reviewer has described this novel as
"Goodwill Hunting" meets "The Dead Poet's Society."
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