Tag Archives: LGBT

3 Fragments of Writing About A Fractured Church

Posted on December 9, 2020 by julianstodd

Here are three fragments of writing, connected through a conversation around acceptance, equality, inclusion, and the established church: i’m triggered to share these, with others that remain unpublished, by the experience of speaking to people excluded by the church because … Continue reading →

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Our Shared Differences

Posted on December 16, 2016 by julianstodd

I am fortunate in being able to visit many different countries, to be a guest in many different cultures. As one travels around the world one moves not only in miles and metres but also in culture and difference. My … Continue reading →

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Illusion of Trust: The Terms and Conditions of Equality

Posted on October 31, 2016 by julianstodd

I had an email from AirBnB last week, relating to their Community Commitment: they describe this commitment as a comprehensive effort to fight bias and discrimination within the AirBnB community, which is a valuable and commendable effort. What got me … Continue reading →

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#ByYourSide

Posted on June 13, 2016 by julianstodd
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Provocative Writing for a Better World: #WorkingOutLoud on an Experiment for the Social Age

Posted on April 27, 2016 by julianstodd

I knew the experiment was working when i felt uncomfortable: sat on the plane, with the first copy in my hand, i worried what other people would think, how they would respond to the writing, how they would feel about … Continue reading →

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Functional Inequality

Posted on October 15, 2015 by julianstodd

This is one of a series of posts i’ve been writing around ‘An Imperfect Humanity‘. They are reflective and self developmental explorations of how one charts a path through often difficult moral and ethical dimensions of working in a global … Continue reading →

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The Complexity of Equality

Posted on April 7, 2015 by julianstodd

Unpacking meaning is a dangerous thing, turning the apparently simple into the overtly complex. As we un-peel the layers of interpretation, we think we will, sooner or later, find the stone at the centre, whilst in fact what we often … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Fairness: why every conversation counts

Posted on November 4, 2014 by julianstodd

A few weeks ago i published the ‘Framework for Fairness‘. It’s a practical exploration of how we incorporate fairness into every conversation. Why? Because if we save it for special ones, we cannot hope to be truly fair. I’ve had … Continue reading →

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Social and Fair: being unheard in the Social Age

Posted on October 15, 2014 by julianstodd

When i wrote my first book, ‘Exploring the World of Social Learning‘, i started it by saying how we live in a grey space: between the formal worlds of work and the social lives we inhabit outside of it. Increasingly, … Continue reading →

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Global Perspectives on Social Leadership: Fairness

Posted on September 24, 2014 by julianstodd

The Social Age is global: take the book. I wrote it in the UK, Philippines and US. Mainly in coffee shops. The typographer i found on Twitter. The printer was in Chelmsford, but the actual printing press was in Latvia … Continue reading →

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