Maiden Blog

So I have decided to become a blogger despite my fears that it is:
i) far too technical for me
ii) wholly self-indulgent
iii) only for self-publicists and/or those trying to make friends and influence

Despite all of this and the possibility that point iii) does actually apply to me, I have taken the plunge and maybe one day someone will find this site and read my ramblings. The main reason for starting a blog is to give space to some thinking around faith and politics. The title of this blog "we are the ones (we have been waiting for)" came initally from a speech I heard Jim Wallis, www.sojo.net give last year and the phrase stuck in my mind. I love the urgency and the immediacy - our generation is so apathetic and this statement is counter-cultural - it's a call to action. While checking it out on the web, it turns out that it was originally from a South African poet called June Jordan and then also used by Alice Walker as the title of a fairly recent collection of essays focusing on spirituality and political activism. Aside from really enjoying the faith-politics-feminisim combo, have a read of these words as I think this is beautiful:

And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea:

we are the ones we have been waiting for.