Families Valued by Jon Kuhrt republished, with permission, from Third Way, December 2008 It is almost impossible to speak about the family without being accused of launching a moral crusade, blaming the victim, or hitting at the most vulnerable – as if what was at stake were the self esteem of the parents, instead of … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Book Review of Patrick Sookhdeo, Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam VA, USA: Isaac Publishing, 2007 by Ben White Since September 11 2001, there has been a huge growth in the number of books that seek, in different ways, to explain and analyse the phenomenon of high-profile violent attacks by … Continue Reading
Evangelical Alliance New General Director: Steve Clifford Fulcrum is delighted with the news that Steve Clifford is to be the next General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. Steve Clifford worked as a teacher in the 1980s before taking up full-time church leadership in 1985. He has been long been involved in church planting, running leadership … Continue Reading
Israel’s Targets in Gaza by Ben White Republished, with permission, from the New Statesman, 6 January 2009 In just the first six days of ‘Operation Cast Lead’, the Israeli Air Force carried out more than 500 sorties against targets in the Gaza Strip. That meant an attack from the air roughly every 18 minutes for … Continue Reading
republished, with permission, from the Diocese of Durham site, 25 December 2008 Sermon at the Eucharist on Christmas Morning, 2008 in the Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham I listened yesterday morning with growing frustration to a clip on the Today programme in which a bishop and a … Continue Reading
The Dubious and the Dutiful: Responding to the Financial Slump copublished with The Guardian Comment is Free site, 5 December 2008 by Nick Spencer Religion often does rather well during recessions, but what kinds of religion will flourish in the slump? During the 1930s, UK church attendance rose. Four decades later, its (already precipitous) decline … Continue Reading
Keep on Giving: Responding to the Financial Slump copublished with The Guardian Comment is Free site, 4 December 2008 by Graham Kings When asked why he had robbed a bank, Willie Sutton, a 19th-century outlaw, replied "Because that’s where the money is." A wonderful answer, but with the slump affecting our plans for Christmas, our … Continue Reading
The Challenge to Economics by Elaine Storkey an expanded version of the BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day, 15 May 2008 and co-published with Dagen the Swedish journal, 20 May 2008 Over the last few weeks a seismic shock has occurred in the UK economy. It seems that the age of profligate expenditure is … Continue Reading
Neither Private nor Privileged: the role of Christianity in Britain today by Nick Spencer “Now, what I want is, Facts… Facts alone are everything in Life.” Given how thoroughly Charles Dickens ridicules Mr Gradgrind, whose words open Hard Times, it is surprising how a Gradgrindian obsession with “facts” can still dominate public discourse today. Although … Continue Reading
Dilemmas of the Law in a Multicultural Society Paper given at the Whitefield Institute Seminar, Oxford, 16 March 1998 Part 1 By Dr Jenny Taylor Introduction There exist in Britain now significant religious minorities seeking to live their lives in accordance with legal systems that have evolved in very different ways, and in a very … Continue Reading