Lesslie Newbigin: a Reader

Lesslie Newbigin Missionary Theologian: A Reader by Paul Weston SPCK 2006 A Fulcrum review by Jenny Taylor, Director of Lapido Media Part of the secret of the power of Lesslie Newbigin’s writing is in its consistency and coherence. His life and thought form a prophetic whole, not a series of ad hoc fragments. This is … Continue Reading

Christian Responses to Islam and Islamic Terrorism

Christian responses to Islam, Islamism and ‘Islamic terrorism’ by Colin Chapman republished with permission from ‘Cambridge Papers’ June 2007, The Jubilee Centre, Cambridge Summary Why is it that some Muslims become Islamists and some Islamists turn to violence? A summary of some basic convictions held in varying degrees by all Muslims is followed by an … Continue Reading

Lament over Lebanon

by Colin Chapman ‘How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal.’ (Lamentations 1:1) This description of the destruction of Jerusalem in 586BC in the book of … Continue Reading

‘What Evangelicals have done to sin’

Within the evangelical world in which I grew up and came to faith, sin was a really big deal. Frequently referred to, both in sermons at church and in talks on summer camps, sin was presented as the barrier of human selfishness and pride that was blocking our relationship with God. As evangelical Christians, the … Continue Reading

Closing the door: the UK’s erosion of the right to asylum – lecture given at the British Institute on Human Rights

Lecture given at the British Institute on Human Rights by Maeve Sherlock, Chief Executive of The Refugee Council 8 December 2005 ‘The fact of the matter is that the industrialised states of Western Europe and North America – those states which played a leading role in the establishment and development of the international refugee regime – … Continue Reading

‘Asylum Seeker Destitution’ – address to the Church Action on Poverty conference

Address to the Church Action on Poverty conference by Maeve Sherlock, Chief Executive of The Refugee Council 3 December 2005 ABDULLAH CASE Last year one of our project workers in the Refugee Council’s Leeds office – a woman called Kate – saw a client whose name was Abdullah. He was an Iraqi asylum seeker whose application … Continue Reading