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It's been six months since we released the Jubilee Lifestyle course, and we'd love to know how people are getting on with it. We've had some great feedback from churches and small groups who have run it, some more than once, and from individuals who have appreciated the chance to get to grips with some...
Guy Brandon Posted: 28 March 2012 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues,
Forever in your debt
The Treasury has announced that it is considering issuing bonds with a 100-year repayment date, or even longer. 'Super long' gilts - last issued to help pick up the cost of World War 1 - would have no set redemption date.The idea behind this scheme is to lock in low interest rates for government borrowing...
Guy Brandon Posted: 14 March 2012 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Coalition for marriage launches campaign
The Coalition for Marriage launched today, with the website www.c4m.org.uk going live at 10am.The purpose of the campaign is to defend the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. The government will shortly be launching a consultation on redefining marriage, a move which...
Guy Brandon Posted: 20 February 2012 9 comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Does our reputation match our heart?
Given it's St Valentine's Day, perhaps it's not surprising that there have been a lot of news items around what people think of each other, about reputation, about what we say or think we are and how others view us.Firstly, at a national level, we have the ratings agency Moody's warning that they think...
Alan White Posted: 14 February 2012 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Finance & the Economy,
Courses on horses?
So the objective of secondary education, according to Michael Gove, is a good job or university. (We'll skip over the illogicality that if university is an end in itself, why can't secondary education be an end in itself? Not everyone's gifts take them down the university route.)Mr Gove described Professor...
Alan White Posted: 31 January 2012 No comments
More religion and politics
Having been criticised for failing to offer any answers for the country's economic problems, Church leaders have in recent days come to the fore. On Monday a group of bishops tabled an amendment in the House of Lords that called for child benefit to be excluded from the proposed £26,000 cap on benefits,...
Guy Brandon Posted: 25 January 2012 4 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Cameron’s Religion and the Archbishop’s Politics
David Cameron has argued that the UK is a Christian country and that a revival of traditional Christian values is required to halt Britain's 'slow-motion moral collapse'. The context of this remark was partly the summer riots, but also the expenses scandal; the banking collapse, inequality and the bonus...
Guy Brandon Posted: 19 December 2011 3 comments
The media’s false prophets
The link between the Old Testament prophets and our modern media might not seem immediately obvious. The distance between the two grows larger still with the revelations of the Leveson inquiry, which take more shocking forms every day. Last week Tony Blair's former Director of Communications and Strategy,...
Guy Brandon Posted: 5 December 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
Affordable housing
The government has unveiled plans to address the lack of affordable homes and increase the number of first-time buyers. A £400 million fund will be used to restart stalled building schemes, and buyers will be able to borrow 95 percent of the new home's value, with the government underwriting part of...
Guy Brandon Posted: 21 November 2011 3 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Our response to 'Border Control'
The head of the UK border force, Brodie Clark, has resigned and is claiming constructive dismissal, suggesting that he had been unfairly blamed for relaxing immigration controls.Back in July the Home Office said that checks on EU nationals could be reduced in certain circumstances. However, checks were...
Guy Brandon Posted: 9 November 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
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