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Loughborough MP Launches New Report
Posted on 14/05/08
P. Klein
Andy Reed, MP for Loughborough, this week launched a new report by a cross party Committee of Inquiry on the Faith in the future. Faith in the Future has been written by Gary Streeter, Steve Webb, our local MP Andy Reed, Alistair Burt and Caroline Spelman after a two-year process of consultation with church leaders and policy experts. The report gathered together expert evidence from across the country looking at the loss of key values in society and challenges to our well being and happiness. As a society we are better off materially, financially, and have increased health but we are no happier. This report undertook to try and look at why that was the case. In the foreword, the MPs state that "Given all the advances of recent years, we seek to understand why a sense of human wellbeing happiness if you like is not more widespread."
The launch of the report concluded an 18 month enquiry by the committee into the happiness of the nation and concluded that even through society is wealthier than it has ever been happiness has not increased at the same rate. Instead of focusing on material wealth, values and well being should be focused on as a means of being happier.
The report sets out some of the problems facing society today and focuses on the loss of key values that have happened throughout society. The report concludes that a return to certain values and understandings is needed. The report focuses on a Christian response with all the MPs involved Christian politicians and they relate well being to Christianity.
The Loughborough MP said:We have over the last 18 months looked into well being and happiness of society and have after listening to evidence produced this report outlining a new way of looking at faith.
This is a positive report providing a vision for the future and one that offers people hope about the use of faith in their lives.
The report which can be viewed online at campaigndirector.moodia.com/Client/Theos/Files/FITFreport.pdf concludes: It is our belief that all people, of every faith and of none, can find in these principles a common ground on which to build. We wish to offer up that ground into the public square. We wish to stimulate debate on these questions, and we wish to create an environment in which individuals and groups, stakeholders and policy-makers, the disenfranchised and the discontented and the weak can begin to wrestle with these notions so that we can discover and present the ways forward.
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