<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Jubilee Centre - Blog</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/jubilee/blogs.php</link><description><![CDATA[The Jubilee Centre is a Christian social reform organisation, founded in 1983.]]></description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>The Value of Life</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/168/the_value_of_life</link><description><![CDATA[Looking beyond the economic crisis and political conferences, this week&#039;s news makes for dismal reading. Early on Sunday, following an evening out with friends and family, 45-year-old Frank McGarahan sought to stop a group of men attacking a homeless Lithuanian man and his girlfriend in Norwich, but was killed for his efforts. ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/168/the_value_of_life</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=5">Lifestyle Issues</category></item><item><title>Do we need a Christian university?</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/166/do_we_need_a_christian_university</link><description><![CDATA[The concept of a university was substantially a Christian innovation, yet most modern universities are secular institutions. This paper surveys briefly the historical background which shows how this came about and the institutional landscape of higher education today. Next, biblical perspectives applicable to all Christians involved in higher education are explored. At the heart of the paper, there lies a discussion of the arguments for and against a Christian university, and the characteristics of such a new Christian university, as envisaged by the author, are presented. The paper is intended to provoke readers across the world to thought, discussion and a more informed response to the many possibilities for Christian service within higher education.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/166/do_we_need_a_christian_university</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=11">Education</category></item><item><title>Archbishops&#039; City Attacks</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/167/archbishops_city_attacks</link><description><![CDATA[Wednesday night the Archbishops of Canterbury and York condemned the world\'s stock market traders as bank robbers and asset strippers. While we might want to question the practice of short-selling, it seems a bit much to accuse of wrong-doing people who have broken no laws and who have simply been doing their jobs - to maximise profits for shareholders, which includes all of us who have money invested in pension schemes. Rather, any finger of blame for the current global financial instability should surely be pointed at the whole economic framework. ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/167/archbishops_city_attacks</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title>Lehman Brothers a &#039;victim&#039;?</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/165/lehman_brothers_a_victim</link><description><![CDATA[On the BBC News website there are currently two (and certainly many more) examples of how the financial markets crisis is being reported.The one approach is exemplified by this reporting: "Lehman ..... is the latest victim of the global credit crunch." The monolithic entity \'Lehman\' is a victim of this other external force: the global credit crunch. The writing suggests an innocent victim of external inexorable force.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/165/lehman_brothers_a_victim</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title>Creationism Confusion</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/164/creationism_confusion</link><description><![CDATA[Despite coverage on four pages of today\'s Times (two paragraphs on the front page, the leader on p.2, the whole of p.3, and opinion piece opposite the letters), I was left wondering what it was that the Royal Society\'s Director of Education, Professor Michael Reiss, had in fact said about creationism. Most of the paper gave the impression that the Society was now asserting that creationism ought to be taught in science classes, despite the worldview making no testable predictions about the universe. However, one sentence in particular seemed to imply that Professor Reiss had in fact made no such U-turn. Helpfully, the ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/164/creationism_confusion</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=6">Science &amp; Technology</category></item><item><title>The Next Generation</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/163/the_next_generation</link><description><![CDATA["Economic and academic concerns trump relational ones, despite the latter\'s crucial role in child, and later adult\'s, well-being. Children\'s policy misses the importance of relationships and political thinking in general misses the relevance of high levels of relational stress and relational poverty in the early years as key underlying factors for a whole host of social problems we face today. As long as policy continues to marginalise relationships in the early years and marginalise the early years in other policy areas there will be no lasting improvement to the interrelated physical, emotional and social problems faced by both children and adults in our society."]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/163/the_next_generation</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=1">Sex &amp; Families</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=11">Education</category></item><item><title>What the media doesn&#039;t tell us</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/161/what_the_media_doesnt_tell_us</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;[Wednesday] was Sarah Palin&#8217;s night. But what prepared her to be believable was the speech of Linda Lingle, the Governor of Hawaii.&quot; My experience of attending political party conferences is that the media consistently presents its own distorted version of events, so that people seeing coverage outside get a very different perspective from those actually present. One of the Jubilee Centre&#039;s partners in America is Dale Kuehne, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, host to the key Republican and Democratic debates immediately preceding the nation&#039;s first primary. If you want an insider&#039;s take on what is currently unfolding on the American political front, Dale&#039;s on-location blog from the Democratic and Republican national conventions is proving both insightful and entertaining. Here&#039;s part of what he had to say about Linda Lingle&#039;s speech: ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/161/what_the_media_doesnt_tell_us</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category></item><item><title>&#039;Blasphemous&#039; Jesus Statue</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/160/blasphemous_jesus_statue</link><description><![CDATA["I think of art, at its most significant, as&#8230;a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."The first of our two Cambridge Papers on art (]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/160/blasphemous_jesus_statue</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category></item><item><title>Interest-Free Mortgages</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/159/interestfree_mortgages</link><description><![CDATA[I must share my disappointment with today\'s £1 billion housing package.Twice in my life I have been helped to make a house purchase thanks to friends who were willing to extend interest-free loans and twice I have had the joy of extending the same assistance to others. So, when I heard on this morning\'s news that first time buyers were to be offered five-year interest-free loans worth up to 30 per cent of a new home, I was quite excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/159/interestfree_mortgages</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title>Just Compensation?</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/158/just_compensation</link><description><![CDATA[Author Sir Salman Rushdie has successfully defended himself against libel and in doing so has, to quote the head of his legal team, &quot;pioneered a new way of reconciling the right to freedom of speech with the right to reputation: you nail the lie for all time with a court-ordered declaration of falsity and you receive your legal costs, but you decline to chill free speech by putting authors and publishers [through] an expensive trial and making them pay heavy damages.&quot;]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/158/just_compensation</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title>Pride Before A Fall?</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/157/pride_before_a_fall</link><description><![CDATA["We want to encourage competitive sports in schools, not the \'medals for all\' culture we have seen in previous years. In sport you get better by challenging yourself against other people. A lot of sports are team games where people have to work together but they play against other teams."]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/157/pride_before_a_fall</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=11">Education</category></item><item><title>Just Murder</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/156/just_murder</link><description><![CDATA[The Government is currently conducting a three-month consultation on its proposals for reform of the law on ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/156/just_murder</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title>Prince Charles on GM</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/155/prince_charles_on_gm</link><description><![CDATA[At least a couple of people have asked me what I think of the latest assertions by Prince Charles, who has warned that genetically modified crops pose "the biggest environmental disaster of all time."For a well argued response, I recommend ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/155/prince_charles_on_gm</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=9">The Environment</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=6">Science &amp; Technology</category></item><item><title>Olympic Challenge</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/122/olympic_challenge</link><description><![CDATA[The politicisation of the Olympic Movement has created such a moral quandary that the problem of Beijing&#8217;s pollution pales into insignificance. Some view the unscripted torch saga as a PR disaster for China. That is only true abroad &#8211; at home it has galvanised nationalism and strengthened Beijing&#8217;s hand. Foreign criticism sometimes needs to be more careful in complaining about the Chinese government rather than China itself. Chinese at home and abroad have been noisy in their opposition to the protests and threatened boycotts.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/122/olympic_challenge</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category></item><item><title>Lambeth Talk</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/154/lambeth_talk</link><description><![CDATA[The Church of England has been&#160;a constant feature of newspaper headlines this summer. Just in case the public was losing interest in the issues of women bishops, homosexuality and&#160;the GAFCON, in ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/154/lambeth_talk</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IMF loans &#039;lead to TB deaths&#039;</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/153/imf_loans_lead_to_tb_deaths</link><description><![CDATA["IMF economic programs are associated with significantly worsened tuberculosis control in post-communist Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries, independent of other political, health, and economic changes in these countries ... These results challenge the proposition that the forms of economic development promoted by the IMF necessarily improve public health."]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/153/imf_loans_lead_to_tb_deaths</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=10">Health</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title>Equal Rights, Equal Roles?</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/152/equal_rights_equal_roles</link><description><![CDATA[The chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, wants to launch a "new assault" on inequality. Last week the commission claimed that the extension of maternity leave and the right to flexible working may have &#8220;entrenched the stereotype&#8221; of women as the primary care-givers.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/152/equal_rights_equal_roles</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category></item><item><title>Relational Crime</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/151/relational_crime</link><description><![CDATA["Even in the late 1980s, heyday of the Inner West drug gangs, most within- and between-gang disputes, as also reported about gangs elsewhere, emanated from interpersonal disputes regarding friends, family and romantic relationships."Tomorrow the Government is to unveil its £100m youth crime action plan, elements of which were announced by the Home Secretary over the weekend. However, research published six months ago is quoted on the front page of today\'s Guardian that suggest core assumptions informing government policy are seriously flawed. The two year project, which included interviews with more than 100 gang members, revealed that violence was far more likely to be triggered by disputes over relationships than by control of territory or drug markets. Further undermining stereotypes, the researchers also found that for many of the young people involved, "references to violence and exposure to violent events as victims, perpetrators and witnesses, was part of everyday conversation and of growing up." In other words, those usually portrayed as offenders are themselves repeat victims of serious crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/151/relational_crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title>Can&#039;t Buy Me Love?</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/150/cant_buy_me_love</link><description><![CDATA["I don\'t want your money, honey, I want your love!"The night before I took my maths A level, I went to see Transvision Vamp in concert. I was reminded of the above song of theirs when I read the following in today\'s Times:]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/150/cant_buy_me_love</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=5">Lifestyle Issues</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title>Prison Drug Abuse</title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/149/prison_drug_abuse</link><description><![CDATA[Last week the BBC treated us to their five-part drama "Criminal Justice", depicting our legal system as more concerned about personal and political victories than truth, and our prison system as one where criminals are in control, drugs flow freely, and violence is unrestrained. Monday Channel 5 screened "Banged Up", the first of its four "reality" TV shows set in a re-opened prison overseen by former Home Secretary David Blunkett.]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/149/prison_drug_abuse</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><atom:link href="http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog.xml.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel></rss>