William Temple’s Middle Axiom for Children

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Every child should find itself a member of a family housed with decency and dignity, so that it may grow up as a member of that basic community in a happy fellowship unspoilt by underfeeding or overcrowding, by dirty and drab surroundings or by mechanical monotony of environment.

WilliamTemple, Christianity and Social Order (Penguin, 1942), 73.

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Bonhoeffer on Voluntary Poverty

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer solves church fossil fuel divestment issue – “The church is church only when it is there for others. As a first step it must give away all its property to those in need.”, Letters and Papers from Prison (DBWE, 503).