Pockets

Jennie - our Lay Leader has been reflecting on clothes - their power to impress others and to oppress the people who make them. Today, Jennie focuses on pockets  - fashionable and unfashionable, deep, generous - usually male - pockets and shallow, and female pockets-less generous or missing altogether as "unfeminine and unfashionable". Jennie begins with a quote by Stephanie Dowrick: "Generosity arises out of an intention to care, way beyond the limits of one's own self  or the group to which one is immediately attached. It is expressed in a thousand ways ...Giving something up for the sake of someone else...Spreading goodwill and peace".

Jennie's central tenet is that the decisions we make about clothes can help us live out our faith and justice practices. Listen on for much more of Jennie's insightful address.