Faith, Justice, and My Work in International Development

Faith, Justice, and My Work: Loving Our Global Neighbour This Guest Post from Ashley reflects on how faith and justice have shaped a 20-year journey in international development, rooted in the biblical truth that every person is made in God’s image and therefore deserves dignity, respect, and care. Drawing on experiences from Zambia to Bangladesh […]

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This is a golden age for the self-obsessed where image is everything and nothing. Yet way back in the 1570s, famous poet Edmund Spencer had it right: ‘Gold all is not that doth golden seem’.  Diana Ross suggests that a golden dream is possible but that, ‘You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself’.  So what is this golden glitzy image that people so crave?

  • ‘An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service’ – Daniel J Boorstin
  • ‘The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behaviour. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behaviour’ – Mazwell Malz

Where is your centre?

‘If I can centre down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that’s enormous for helping the stress.’ – Anne Graham Lotz