Jeune Street

Jeune Street runs between Cowley Road and St Clement’s Street in Oxford, UK. Walk west across Magdalen bridge and you will enter into central Oxford with its dozens of old Colleges and stain-glassed chapels. Walk east, however, and the streets are full of students and recent migrants (often both), and two domed mosques can be found within minutes of each other. Perhaps that is why it is Jeune (which means ‘young’ in French) Street: an old city can be made young again — nothing is too ancient to be reinvented.

When I started this blog, I lived on Jeune Street and I walked between these two worlds every day. I did it literally, and like many others I still make this journey figuratively as well: between the world around us and a new one — more peaceful and just — that we are trying to create.

Jeune Street is a personal blog about the roles and relationships between religion, governance and world development. It is written from a Baha’i perspective, although the views are mine alone.

“Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.” – Baha’u'llah