<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[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>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:06:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Hawking: Not Needed for Creation]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/331/hawking_not_needed_for_creation</link><description><![CDATA[Still jetlagged from a summer in California, I am intrigued by the intense media interest in the latest book by British physicist Stephen Hawking and his supposedly troubling pronouncement that 'God was not needed to create the Universe'. I hope it won't be considered too facetious to wonder which newspaper will report his eventual death (for we are all destined to die, even the 'great' and the 'good') with the headline 'God Says Hawking Not Needed for Creation'. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/331/hawking_not_needed_for_creation</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:06:28 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=6">Science &amp; Technology</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=2">Christianity &amp; Religion</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: Politics - According to the Bible]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/330/book_review_politics_according_to_the_bible</link><description><![CDATA[From the author who 'condensed' the complexities of the bible into the 1291-page 'Systematic Theology' comes this indispensable 624-page guide to 'Politics - According to the Bible'. Claiming to be 'A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture', and thus going further than Walter Kaiser's 256-page guide to biblical ethics '...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/330/book_review_politics_according_to_the_bible</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:33:39 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=2">Christianity &amp; Religion</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's Witch Children]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/329/britains_witch_children</link><description><![CDATA[

Apparently Channel 4 screened a documentary last Monday called 'Britain's Witch Children' about rogue African churches in the UK where pastors charge money to conduct exorcisms of children branded as witches, often leading to the children being ostracised or abused. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/329/britains_witch_children</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:29:10 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=2">Christianity &amp; Religion</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Griffin's Royal Garden Party Invitation]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/328/nick_griffins_royal_garden_party_invitation</link><description><![CDATA[However odious and offensive many of us might find their views, the British National Party is a legal political party that holds two of the UK's 72 seats in the European Parliament. So it was wholly appropriate that Buckingham Palace issue Nick Griffin with an invitation to its garden party. If he had not been invited, voters who already feel disconnected from the political process might have perceived it as being excluded by the establishment and have been even more likely to vote for the party. However, if he has abused that trust and used the event for political purposes, then it is also wholly appropriate that they withdraw the invitation. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/328/nick_griffins_royal_garden_party_invitation</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:28:18 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salt and Light Christian Blog Awards]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/327/salt_and_light_christian_blog_awards</link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally Jubilee Centre staff are asked what other Christian bloggers we can recommend who engage in social and political issues of interest to the world outside the Church. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/327/salt_and_light_christian_blog_awards</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:08:44 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=2">Christianity &amp; Religion</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Locked-in Syndrome ... Between Life & Death?]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/326/lockedin_syndrome_between_life_and_death</link><description><![CDATA[I went to the wedding of two friends on Saturday who, like millions of couples before them, took vows to love and serve each other 'for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death parts us or Christ comes again.' ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/326/lockedin_syndrome_between_life_and_death</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:41:48 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=10">Health</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[R.I.P. Raoul Moat?]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/325/rip_raoul_moat</link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Prime Minister told the Commons, 'It is absolutely clear that Raoul Moat was a callous murderer, full stop, end of story. I cannot understand any wave, however small, of public sympathy for this man. There should be sympathy for his victims and the havoc he wreaked in that community. There should be no sympathy for him.' ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/325/rip_raoul_moat</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:23:12 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radical NHS Overhaul]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/324/radical_nhs_overhaul</link><description><![CDATA[The NHS in England is to undergo a major restructuring in one of the biggest shake-ups in its history. GPs will form new consortia and assume responsibility for spending much of the NHS budget, hospitals are to be encouraged to move outside the NHS to become &#039;vibrant&#039; industry of social enterprises, patients will receive more information and choice, and all ten strategic health authorities and 152 primary care trusts will be abolished. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/324/radical_nhs_overhaul</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:50:44 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=10">Health</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/323/the_twilight_saga_eclipse</link><description><![CDATA[Our Cambridge Paper 'Engaging with cinema' argued that 'At their best, films are works of art that provoke ethical reflection and provide a vital point of contact between believers and unbelievers.' So, how could I turn down an invitation to take part in an online radio discussion about the latest vampire love triangle movie based on Stephenie Meyer's novel, 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'?(!) ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/323/the_twilight_saga_eclipse</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:14:04 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=1">Sex &amp; Relationships</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=10">Health</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[More School Discrimination]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/322/more_school_discrimination</link><description><![CDATA[Further to our observations about secularists&#039; comments on the Government&#039;s flagship Academies Bill, it is noteworthy that the National Secular Society&#039;s honorary associates Baroness Massey of Darwen and Baroness Flather are to move three amendments to the Bill in the debate to be held later today and tomorrow. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/322/more_school_discrimination</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:24:33 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=11">Education</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religious Discrimination in Schools]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/321/religious_discrimination_in_schools</link><description><![CDATA[The British Humanist Association&#8217;s Chief Executive recently warned in the Guardian that the Government&#8217;s Academies Bill risks &#039;increasing religious discrimination and privilege in our education system.&#039; Parents, teachers and governors alike will be relieved to learn that his unsubstantiated claims are all refuted by actual evidence. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/321/religious_discrimination_in_schools</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:58:31 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=11">Education</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prison Reform - At Last!]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/320/prison_reform_at_last</link><description><![CDATA[Justice Secretary Ken Clarke today acknowledges that prison has too often proved 'a costly and ineffectual approach that fails to turn criminals into law-abiding citizens' and is expected to announce that he is critical of short sentences being imposed for relatively trivial offences. He wants to adopt a system of 'intelligent sentencing': ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/320/prison_reform_at_last</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:47:36 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euthanasia and assisted suicide]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/cp_comments/319/euthanasia_and_assisted_suicide</link><description><![CDATA[The arguments in favour of the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia are no longer focussed on unbearable suffering. Instead there is a rising demand for choice and control over the time and manner of our death, coupled with fears about the social and economic consequences of increasing numbers of elderly and dependent individuals. But there are strong medical, legal, social and theological reasons to oppose this new drive for suicide and euthanasia. The potent modern myth of the autonomous individual fails to match with the inescapable reality of human dependence and relationality. The increasing public support for the legalisation of medical killing provides an urgent challenge to the medical and legal professions and to the Christian community as a whole. Are Christians capable of living out a practical and countercultural demonstration of the preciousness of human life expressed in human interdependence, personal commitment and burden-sharing?...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/cp_comments/319/euthanasia_and_assisted_suicide</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=10">Health</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfair Bank Charges]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/318/unfair_bank_charges</link><description><![CDATA[The Coalition's Programme for Government promised 'We will introduce stronger consumer protections, including measures to end unfair bank and financial transaction charges.' Yesterday Lloyds TSB announced that from 2nd December the 41-per-cent state-owned institution is going to introduce a new overdraft fee structure to its personal and existing current account customers. One of the bank's directors claimed, 'All customers who use an unplanned overdraft facility will pay less under the new structure,' and 'Almost 70 per cent of customers who use an unplanned overdraft will pay less than half what they currently pay.' ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/318/unfair_bank_charges</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:54:22 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Increasing Cohabitation a Concern?]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/317/is_increasing_cohabitation_a_concern</link><description><![CDATA[I have just taken a media inquiry about updated marital status population projections published today by the Office for National Statistics. The report predicts that the proportion of adults who are married will drop from 49 per cent to 42 per cent over the coming quarter of a century (2008-2033), the proportion never married will increase from 35 to 43 per cent, while the number cohabiting will increase from 2.3 million to 3.8 million (a 65 per cent increase over 25 years). ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/317/is_increasing_cohabitation_a_concern</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:10:54 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=1">Sex &amp; Relationships</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=5">Lifestyle Issues</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was The Budget Fair?]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/316/was_the_budget_fair</link><description><![CDATA[The Chancellor claimed that his emergency budget was &#8216;tough but fair,&#8217; but justifying this claim begs a prior question: &#8216;What is &#8220;fairness&#8221;?&#8217; Helpfully, the budget&#8217;s executive summary offers its own definition: ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/316/was_the_budget_fair</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:54:17 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hippocratic Physicians]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/315/hippocratic_physicians</link><description><![CDATA[Despite being cleared of murdering three patients five years ago, Dr Howard Martin has told the Daily Telegraph he twice &#039;helped people die&#039; without their permission and administered excessive morphine doses to a total of eighteen dying patients, supposedly out of &#039;Christian compassion&#039;. ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/315/hippocratic_physicians</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:21:25 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=10">Health</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[BP's Unlimited Liability]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/314/bps_unlimited_liability</link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday we asked who was really to blame for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has agreed to establish a $20 billion claims fund over the next three and a half years, and has further acknowledged this 'does not represent a cap on BP liabilities,' pledging to pay 'any legitimate claim.' ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/314/bps_unlimited_liability</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:55:08 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=9">The Environment</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><![CDATA[A Crude Awakening - Who's Really To Blame?]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/313/a_crude_awakening_whos_really_to_blame</link><description><![CDATA['[America's] addiction [to oil] is fouling our beaches, polluting our atmosphere and undermining our national security.' (Henry Waxman, chairman of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce) ...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/313/a_crude_awakening_whos_really_to_blame</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:49:24 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=9">The Environment</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=6">Science &amp; Technology</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=5">Lifestyle Issues</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian Cuts, Limited Government and the 'Big Society']]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/312/canadian_cuts_limited_government_and_the_big_society</link><description><![CDATA['The insistence that government has limits may be one of the most important services that the church offers society.' So asserts Cambridge Papers author David McIlroy in his chapter on the role of government in '...]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/312/canadian_cuts_limited_government_and_the_big_society</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:42:53 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category></item><atom:link href="http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog.xml.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel></rss>