VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Rev Canon Dr Alan Billings, an Anglican priest in Sheffield |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 2 out of 5 (A little platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130107.html][img=images/2013/01/pic130107.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Doom, doom and thrice doom! It's all terrible, the world's falling apart. It was bad enough in the 1980s when the working class were grim up north. Now, even respectable, middle class people are becoming grim up north.

Doubtless this reminds you all of the prophet Isaiah, everyone's favourite prophet from the Old Tasty mint, [url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+24:19-20&version=NLT]"Everyone's going to get drunk and the earth will appear to shake."[/url] I think I'll omit the beginning of the chapter where it tells you that it's the Invisible Magic Friend [url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+24&version=NLT]that does the shaking[/url].

Isaiah was talking about the natural world but he could have been talking about the international financial system, if only that was what he had been talking about. Yes, we expect the earth to fall to pieces, but who would have thought that the financial system could fall to bits too? I mean, it's not as if there's ever been asset bubbles, over extended lending, ignorance of risk or [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/history-lessons-galbraiths-the-great-crash-1929-is-still-essential-reading-today-956710.html]collapse of confidence in the banking system before[/url]. Who would have thought it?

No man is an island. We need to build up neighbourhoods that are resilient to the coming storm, informal networks based around, oh, the local Anglican church for example.

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