I’ve arrived in Cornwall for this year’s @G7 where I’ll be asking my fellow leaders to rise to the challenge of beating the pandemic and building back better, fairer and greener. It will be a busy and important Summit, and I can’t wait to get started

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, Twitter post accompanied by a photo on the steps by a plane, 9 June

You flew??? From London to Cornwall???? To talk about building back better, fairer and greener???? Words. Fail. Me.

Ruth Valerio, Canon Theologian of Rochester Cathedral, Twitter, 9 June

I and the board want to see, not a net-zero investment fund, but a net-zero global economy. That’s why we engage in companies the way we do

Gareth Mostyn, chief executive, Church Commissioners, Church Times interview, 14 June

Any move to weaken the Human Rights Act risks undermining the basis of all of our freedom, and would be a marker on a very slippery slope. For a United Kingdom based on decency, dignity and respect, we must keep our Human Rights Act as it is

David Walker, Bishop of Manchester, and other faith leaders, letter to Prime Minister, 8 June

Sir, Robert Crampton (Comment, 5 June) urges the Church of England to solve its Covid-induced financial problems by selling productive assets and using the proceeds as income. The earliest community of Jewish Christians in Jerusalem employed this unwise short-term financial strategy because they believed in the imminent end of the world. One wonders if Crampton knows something we don’t

David Head, former Rector of the Quintet Benefice, Norfolk, letter to The Times, 9 June

In Brazil, it’s all about the frontiers, the gray areas. These churches are the only ones operating on the periphery, and their potency derives from their being the open door to the rest of society. It gives protection for people living in these very dangerous situations. Pentecostalism opens doors some of us may not even want to be opened. It’s ambiguous, like life in the favelas, where moral choices are more complicated

Carly Machado, Brazilian anthropologist, explaining the attraction of Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism for people on the edges of society, quoted in The New Yorker, 7 June

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