Curate Conundrums

  Let’s talk about fairness. What does fairness mean? What does it look like? When I was growing up we had enough, but not a lot, or at least not a lot by the standards of other people, and perhaps quite a lot by other people’s standards. We didn’t starve, but our house was small. Although we did own our house, which made us better off than many. However, I remember going one winter without heating and hot water because we couldn’t afford to get the boiler fixed. Life is unfair and one of the things we try to do as humans is something called ‘causality’, where we try to seek meaning in everything that happens to us. ‘It all happens for a reason’. I’m not sure I believe in that, I think there are some things that just happen, because that’s the nature of life. Someone stubbing their toe, or winning the lottery, I don’t think God, or some kind of force guides that. Some things are just part of existence and creation. Other things are not just facts of life, they are created and m...

There are 171 Billionaires in the UK. Just to put that into perspective a billon is a thousand million pounds. That’s only slightly less than a clergy person earns. The average salary in the UK is £23,760 before tax. [1] Rounding that up to £24,000, to earn a billion pounds would take about 41.6,000 years. [2] Now 2021-41,0000 is -38,979. So if someone on an average salary in this country wanted to earn a billion pounds, they would’ve had to start work (spending nothing) in the year 38,979BC. That’s long before the Bible was written, or Jesus spoke to that rich man. The oldest cave paintings in the world date to c.39,000BC. [3] In light of this when the Govt turns round and says we must cut Universal Credit to the poorest and most vulnerable in society by £20 a month, a cut that will make the already desperate even more so, I think that’s rubbish. There is enough money, it’s a case of moral failure. It’s not supposed to be like this. This isn’t the kingdom. There are 1...