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Race and nationhood - Votewise Bible Study 2
Nick Spencer, January 2005
Price: FREE
Able to stand on its own, but written to accompany the chapter on race and nationhood in 'Votewise: helping Christians engage with the issues' (SPCK 2004), this study explores biblical passages pertaining to issues of identity and belonging and invites us to relate those principles to some of today's pressing questions.
Category: Bible Studies
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Asylum and loving the alien - Votewise Bible Study 1
Nick Spencer, January 2005
Price: FREE
Designed to accompany the chapter on asylum in 'Votewise: helping Christians engage with the issues' (SPCK 2004), this study covers the major issues and relevant biblical passages more briefly than the series of 4 studies which accompany 'Asylum and Immigration: a Christian perspective on a polarised debate' (Paternoster 2004)
Category: Bible Studies
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Health and Healthcare - Votewise Bible Study 6
Nick Spencer, January 2005
Price: FREE
Able to stand on its own, but written to accompany the chapter on health and healthcare in 'Votewise: helping Christians engage with the issues' (SPCK 2004), this study challenges a narrowly biomedical concept of health and explores biblical teaching on healing thus suggesting new priorities and processes for healthcare provision today.
Category: Bible Studies
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Health
Mercy not sacrifice: Mosaic law in Christian social ethics
Jason Fletcher, December 2004 3 comments
Price: £0.99 (free online)
Rather than neglect Mosaic law, Christians have a responsibility to seek in the law given to shape the nation of Israel insight into Gods will for nations generally. This is so because Mosaic law was never intended exclusively for Israel; its ethical principles originate in the character of God and are foundational to the creation order. Moreover, Jesus does not abolish Mosaic law but authoritatively reveals its underlying ethical intent, and Paul, although critical of the misuse and powerlessness of the law, also affirms its abiding ethical authority.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues
Voting wisely: an antidote to consumer politics
Nick Spencer, December 2004
Price: FREE
In the midst of the most frenetic US election in history, democratic candidate John Kerry took time out to go goose hunting in Ohio, and then to watch the ball game at home with a beer. To the uninitiated it looked like he was taking a break. Here was an 'all American guy', taking time to relax and spend time with his family during a tough month. To those with eyes to see, it was one of the key tactical moves of his whole campaign, as important as the three televised debates with President Bush.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
The conduct of war: lessons from Deuteronomy 20
Hetty Lalleman, December 2004
Price: FREE
Warfare has been part of human life from early times. It is one of the consequences of what happened in Genesis 3 - rebellion against God. The Old Testament is not a book which only contains pious phrases about human beings and God. Of course, God reveals himself in the Bible, but he does so throughout real history of human beings, who indeed are very human from time to time.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs
A relational strategy for community engagement
John Ashcroft, December 2004
Price: FREE
Localism is in vogue. After several decades of seeing power increasingly centralised in Whitehall many in politics are calling for greater powers and responsibility to be vested in local communities. This represents both a challenge and an opportunity for churches' mission. One reason for this is that effective long-term responses to the needs of the most vulnerable are more likely to develop if there is a strong sense of local responsibility, incentives to address the issues, and the vision to do so.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Relational apologetics
Michael Schluter, December 2004
Price: FREE
Christianity, as we have often said before in this column, is a 'relational religion'. This means that in a Christian view of the world relationships precede - in time and in importance - the material world, although intimately connected with that world. It means that getting relationships right, or putting them right, is of greater significance than increasing national or personal wealth. It means that each of us derives our value not from our job and what we can do, but from our relationships, who we are.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Lifestyle Issues
Votewise: helping Christians engage with the issues
Nick Spencer, November 2004
Price: £7.99 (free download)
If you want to form a Christian perspective on the issues dominating political debate today, this is an excellent place to start. In this short volume (116 pages), Nick Spencer describes the lie of the political land and then examines the most important issues facing Britain today. Eight concise chapters outline the contours of the debate for each issue, turn to biblical teaching for a Christian perspective, offer a series of principles against which readers may evaluate party manifestos, and point to additional resources for further engaging.
(Out of print - see the completely re-written 2009 edition, Votewise Now!)
Category: Books
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Loving the Alien - Four Bible Studies to accompany 'Asylum and Immigration'
Nick Spencer, November 2004
Price: FREE
Designed to facilitate discussion about this critical contemporary issue, this series of Bible studies is based on the Jubilee Centre publication 'Asylum and immigration: a Christian perspective on a polarised debate'. There are four studies, designed to help small groups or individuals to engage thoughtfully with the rich biblical teaching regarding the immigrant. Do give them a try and let us know how you get on! We welcome feedback.
Category: Bible Studies
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs