‘I want to be as woke as possible, and I’m not ashamed to admit it’
What is it that takes Shrewsbury-based Methodist minister Rev Richard Hall - shown above with members of the ‘Sanglier Dynamique’ scout group in Gahanga, Kigali - to Rwanda, a country of which he says ‘the fact that there’s any kind of functioning society at all there is remarkable’? And what is it about Rwanda that means Richard’s visits there give him hope for the whole of humanity?
‘There are moves in society which are deeply anti-Christian’
Rev Richard Hall also talks about how things are in the UK - ‘the danger we’re in is … setting ourselves up to blame all the things that are wrong … on the arrival of a few immigrants’ - and what we could learn from Rwanda’s recent history.
What do you think of Rev Richard Hall’s thoughts on Rwanda, the UK, and being ‘as woke as possible’? Join in the conversation in the comments:
Also in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast:
the BBC’s Question Time from Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury Djangofest
The Big Mend takes place next Saturday
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