Loretta Minghella comes from a colourful family. They sound simple enough, but in practice we often struggle. Goedgekeurde derde partijen gebruiken deze tools voor onze weergave van advertenties.Sorry, er is een probleem opgetreden bij het opslaan van je cookievoorkeuren. Loretta Minghella comes from a colourful family. People who know me well know that I’m not remote or grand.“I’m very keen that the Commissioners should be as open as possible about what we’re doing, what we’re taking into account, how we’re spending the money, how we’re investing it.“The Church is about relationships: we’re part of the structures of the national Church, of course we should be out there engaging. .“I’d spent these 20 years not practising anything much, and it wasn’t a Catholic church; so the family didn’t really understand it. So I’m hoping that we’ll be able to do more of that.”.Not all of Ms Minghella’s work centres on making money. But they seem to have got the message now, and started to disclose.“I am hoping that companies mean what they say, when they want to be part of a future which is compatible with the survival of the planet and the survival of creation. . Aquí nos gustaría mostrarte una descripción, pero el sitio web que estás mirando no lo permite.
I think we have to take it one step at a time.”,THE Commissioners have had their own brush with an extractive industry, after re-registering subterranean rights on land that they own. . https://www.speakersforschools.org/speakers/loretta-minghella . She visited the Philippines shortly after the country had been devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.“I met on the frontline people who’d lost everything, who’d lost all their possessions, who’d lost relations, who’d lost children. It was an “amazing privilege”, she says, but very demanding. Probeer het opnieuw.Je luistert naar een voorbeeld van de Audible-audio-editie,Live Lent with Christian Aid Pack of 25: Into the Wilderness.Als je productpagina’s hebt bekeken, kijk dan hier om eenvoudig terug te gaan naar de pagina's waarin je geïnteresseerd bent.© 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. en dochterondernemingen,Klantenservice voor mensen met een handicap,Pakketten traceren of bestellingen bekijken. The following morning, the girl’s parents asked if she could be dropped off at their church, St Barnabas’s, Dulwich, in south London.“And my daughter said to me: ‘Mum, shall we stay and see what it’s like, then?’ And I said: ‘OK.’ And that was it: it was the most unexpected, unlikely, overwhelming moment.

The daughter, Olivia, belongs to Loretta Minghella, who has completed four months as First Church Estates Commissioner — arguably the most senior laywoman in the Church of England after the Queen and the Prime Minister. First, she says, it taught her that she was capable of more than she thought.Second, it made her question the priorities in her work.

I think it’s quite difficult; if you set up something like this — and the logic of it is, I think, really compelling — then you can’t run out of patience with it.”.She refers to the run-in with ExxonMobil. As she tells it, she spent the next 20 years “in the wilderness”: “Periodically, I allowed myself to be aware of the fact that something was missing for me, and I didn’t quite know what it was.”.When her daughter was eight, she had a friend to stay. She is committed to ensuring a fair spread: “I’m very determined that it will support all kinds of all church tradition; that it won’t be focused just on young people; that it won’t be just focused on urban; that we’ll remember that great opportunity we have to be alongside everyone.”.The picture that she paints of the Commissioners is, perhaps, not one that everyone will recognise. “You put that on the back of five years at the FSCS, including during the financial crisis, I felt like I’d given my executive career what I could give it.”.As a consequence, she started looking for non-executive opportunities. “I think we have to take it one step at a time. Ms Minghella says that this has led to a basic misunderstanding. We have no plans to make money out of fracking anywhere in the country, as far as I’m aware.”,TO MARK the 100th anniversary of the first women getting the vote in the UK, the Bishop-Elect of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has called for patriarchal culture to be “challenged at every possible opportunity”.The Commissioners are also putting their weight behind attempts to change the culture of male-heavy boards who award their executives inflated salaries. That’s why we’re here: that’s what gets us out of bed in the morning.”.Ms Minghella’s daughter is 23, and no longer lives at home; but would she be pleased with the way in which her advice is working out?“I think she’s OK with it,” Ms Minghella says, laughing. With seven billion people to count as our neighbours on this earth, how can we love those who are far away?Loretta Minghella is the Director of Christian Aid.Voor het berekenen van de totale sterrenbeoordeling en de procentuele verdeling per ster gebruiken we geen gewoon gemiddelde. They have signalled that they are prepared to vote against unreasonable salary packages; and will vote against nomination-committee chairs when there are fewer than 30 per cent of women on a board — and the whole nomination committee, if the figure is less than 25 per cent.Ethical activity can come at a cost, however, and there is a potential conflict with the duty of the Commissioners, as a charity, to produce the best returns for their beneficiary: the Church of England. She is now the director of Christian Aid. It works with civil society organisations around the world to hold the powerful to account. I think we have a bit of that reputation. In 2008, after the sudden death of her brother, the film maker Anthony Minghella, Loretta decided to search for a career that put her whole self, and in particular her Christian faith, at its centre. “The great temptation”, she says, “is just to meet every request for funding something to do with the Church with open arms.