Tom Hodgkinson on Loving Your Neighbour

11.30am, 26 October 2008
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX

PAST SERMON - a transcript is available at the bottom of this page

The Tenth Commandment reads:

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. (Exodus 20:17)

This seems just about manageable, but must we actually love our neighbour? Absolutely, Tom Hodgkinson argues. 

For the last six years, Tom has been trying to live by medieval ethics, which means spending a lot of time with his neighbours. You may think the medieval age was a time of bad diets, corrupt priests and abject serfdom? Not at all, says Tom. Medieval times saw an approach to life which was eco-friendly, neighbourly and based on cooperating rather than competing.  Medieval values were radical values. They were good values. We should be inspired by them, and start knocking down rather than putting up garden fences, feasting with rather than quibbling with those who live on our street. Come and hear Tom preach the good news.

Tom Hodgkinson does what he's always done, which is a mixture of editing magazines, writing articles, and putting on parties for his friends and neighbours. He was born in 1968, founded The Idler in 1993, and now lives in Devon. His bestselling books include How To Be Idle and How To Be Free.

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