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Recovering the Common Good (Part Three) An Outpost of the Kingdom In my earlier blog posts I suggested that Britain has not simply become more politically divided; it has, in many ways, forgotten the common good. I also argued that if we are to recover the common good, we first need to recover the story we are living in. The Church is called to inhabit the story of God’s Kingdom—a story that forms us into what I described as a fellowship of difference, where the waters of bap