IF Brexit is getting you down, there’s a place you can go to escape it all.
Churches Together in Hexham is preparing to welcome people to the town’s Trinity Methodist Church Hall for a Brexit-free couple of hours between 10am and midday on Saturday.
Explaining the idea behind the drop-in, Churches Together representative Andrew Greaves said the aim was to create a calm, safe place where listening takes over speaking.
“Many people throughout the UK are deeply concerned by increasing levels of anger and intolerance in public discourse, especially exchanges of opinion related to the seemingly never-ending debate about Brexit,” Mr Greaves said.
“Social media can spread instant, unthinking, frequently hurtful comment on almost any topic at all, by anybody and about anybody, sometimes with the most devastating consequences.
“If you too have misgivings about the strident, overheated way in which issues of vital, national importance are so often discussed a present, about shrieking newspaper headlines and dog whistle political slogans, you are not alone.
“Churches Together in Hexham invites you to join it for a few minutes of peace and quiet, a chance to sit and reflect upon the turbulent period our country and the wider world is currently going through.”
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