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Dale Kuehne on his time at the Jubilee Centre
Dr Dale Kuehne, January 2010
Price: FREE
Politics professor and pastor, the author of "Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking relationships in an age of individualism" describes a life-changing journey of discovery that started with the Jubilee Centre and his contact with the media. To find out more about Dale's iWorld discovery, come hear him speak at our May 15th conference, Beyond Individualism.
Category: Multimedia
Keywords: Christianity & Religion
Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living (US edition)
Nick Spencer, Robert White and Virginia Vroblesky , December 2009
Price: £9.99
Amounts and patterns of consumption and production in the West have reached a level that cannot be maintained. Lifestyles based on our present way of creating and using energy are no longer environmentally sustainable-and are threatening the health and well-being of both planet and people. Our activities and the policies that shape them need to change.
In light of those realities, Spencer, White, and Vroblesky offer serious Christian engagement with the emerging issue of Sustainable Consumption and Production. They analyze the scientific, sociological, economic, and theological thinking that makes a Christian response to these trends imperative and distinctive. And they offer practical conclusions that explore and explain what can be done at the personal, community, national, and international levels to ensure that next generations will have the resources necessary for life.
Firmly rooted in the good news of the Christian faith, this is, above all, a constructive and hopeful book that offers a realistic vision of what the future could and should look like. It can be ordered for just $9.99 (instead of its retail price of $16.95) via ChristianBook.com.
The original UK edition of the book can be ordered via the Jubilee Centre website, from where you can also download the accompanying Bible studies.
Category: Books
Keywords: The Environment
'From Every Kind of Oppression'
John Hayward, December 2009
Price: FREE
Modern slavery is thriving and millions of vulnerable people are subjected to debt bondage and trafficked across the globe. In many parts of the world, women are oppressed by honour killings, forced prostitution, genital excision, (sex-selective) abortion, and exclusion from education and literacy. The poor are exploited by unfair trade, and large swathes of the world’s population are denied basic religious freedoms.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Christianity & Religion
'To Release the Oppressed': Reclaiming a biblical theology of liberation
John Coffey, December 2009 5 comments
Price: £0.99 (free online)
Liberation is one of the great slogans of modern politics and one of the major themes of the Bible. The Exodus from Egyptian bondage was the foundational narrative of the Jewish nation, and Jesus inaugurated his ministry by announcing that he had come ‘to release the oppressed’. Scripture teaches that Christ brings redemption from slavery to sin, but it also depicts deliverance from material forms of oppression. This paper explains how that biblical theme has inspired early modern revolutionaries and nineteenth-century abolitionists as well as modern liberation theologians. While highlighting the failings of Christian liberationists (old and new), the paper concludes that we need a holistic theology of liberation which addresses the diverse forms of spiritual, relational and material enslavement that are rife in the twenty-first century.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Christianity & Religion
Book Review: Peacemakers - Building stability in a complex world
Peter Dixon (reviewed by David Wong), November 2009
Price: FREE
Written from a primarily Christian perspective but also applying widely accepted international principles, Peacemakers: Building stability in a complex world by Peter Dixon explores the nature and causes of conflict and the options for intervention before going on to suggest how people can involve themselves in working towards peace, stability and reconciliation as third parties in 21st century violent conflict, particularly those of an intra-state nature.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
The Best Idea in the World: How putting relationships first transforms everything
Mark Greene, November 2009
Price: £6.00
The greatest commandment is to think relationally: “Love God. Love your neighbour.” In this compelling and liberating book, Mark Greene reveals its extraordinarily practical implications for every area of life, showing how putting relationships first in our thinking and living is not only a liberating basis for our personal lives but a robust and dynamic foundation for our society and our global community.
Category: Books
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Lifestyle Issues
Creation in Crisis: Christian Perspectives on Sustainability
Robert White (ed.), October 2009
Price: £9.50
Following on from the success of Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living, Professor White has brought together a distinguished group of scientific and theological minds to explore 'the seriousness of environmental degradation and climate change, the root causes and possible solutions, and the contribution of Christian thinking to these issues.'
Contributions include Sir John Houghton on sustainable climate and the future of energy, chapters by Ellen Davis, Calvin DeWitt and Richard Carter on agriculture, land use and water, Douglas Moo on transforming Christian perspectives on creation and new creation, and Jonathan Moo on environmental unsustainability and a biblical vision of the earth's future.
Category: Books
Keywords: The Environment
The UK Marriage Index 2009
Jubilee Centre Research Team, October 2009
Price: FREE
Asserting that ‘Marriage is as important as the economy to the nation’s overall health,’ the Jubilee Centre has conducted an analysis of a range of fundamental measures to generate a single figure that reveals the overall health of marriage in the country: 61.3% – down from 85% in 1970.
The UK Marriage Index, comparable to a similar Index just launched in the USA, is a unique indicator that challenges each of us to get more involved in our communities. It asks, 'Will you get involved in – or start – a relationship and parenting education programme? Will you be intentional about talking to children about marriage? Will you encourage young people to see dating within the context of finding and winning the right person for marriage?'
Download the report using the button below and then comment on the report on our blog.
Category: Reports
Keywords: Sex & Families
Corporate Capitalism Drives Social and Moral Breakdown
John Hayward, September 2009
Price: FREE
Corporate Capitalism has had a devastating impact on families and communities and has been responsible for the excessive growth of giant corporations and over-centralisation of state power, claims the first of two new Cambridge Papers by Jubilee Centre founder Michael Schluter.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Finance & the Economy
Is Capitalism Morally Bankrupt? Five moral flaws and their social consequences
Michael Schluter, September 2009 11 comments
Price: £0.99 (free online)
Many Christians accept Capitalism as broadly in line with biblical teaching. Its economic success appears to vindicate attribution of its origins to Christian theology. This confidence in Capitalism as the best available economic system has meant that Christians have failed to recognise that it is one of the main drivers of social and moral breakdown in Western societies. This paper will highlight five failings in the philosophical foundations and institutions of Corporate Capitalism, pointing to their devastating impact on families and communities, and how they bring about the growth of giant corporations and centralised state power. Christians need to search urgently for a new economic order based on biblical revelation. One such alternative will be set out in a future issue of Cambridge Papers.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Finance & the Economy