God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.