The Last Shall Be First
Jane Little and her young son managed to leave her native Lake District and re-join her husband in the United States just before the Covid-19 lockdown made such travel impossible.
Now in self-isolation in a new family home in Virginia, Jane – a former BBC World Service religious affairs correspondent – reflects on whether, with all the pain and loss it has brought for so many families, the pandemic could also be a new beginning: a portal to a new and better world. The choice, as one elder from the Hopi tribe told Jane, is ours: whether to walk through that portal and create a new world in which the last, the poor and marginalized, will finally get their fair share.
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I like the Jesus-quote. Letting him do the 40-days-fasting being the portal I am hoping for the light at the end of the tunnel knowing at least it is there coming towards us
Ute Koemp
Thank you for the insight to look for the portal!
Carmen Walton
Jane you speak for us all. I found the quote from the indigenous people enlightening . Thanks Janet
Janet bobbett
I don’t listen to many podcasts Jane but I am trying to make myself and mum told me about yours today, very insightful, thankyou for making me stop and listen and now ponder.
Anna Mawby (bobbett)
What a wonderful podcast!
The world cannot stay the same! it has to change for the better.
I choose to go through the portal x
Lisa Lydka