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Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking relationship beyond an age of individualism
Dale Kuehne, September 2009
Price: £8.99
Examining current issues pertaining to sexuality and society, pastor and politics professor Dale Kuehne asks, 'What kind of world are we creating? And is it a world that is actually harming us more than benefiting us?'
With a cordial openness to responses from all points of view, Kuehne contrasts the long-established 'tWorld', in which traditional morality reigned and recent innovations would have been inconceivable, with the post-Enlightenment 'iWorld', in which these innovations are promoted because the perceived immediate needs of the individual are paramount. Both, he finds, fall short of the more biblical 'rWorld', in which a larger web of healthy and nourishing social relationships provides the most personally fulfilling context for sexuality and relational well-being.
(N.B. Cannot be sold by us outside Europe)
Category: Books
Keywords: Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture
Master Your Mind: How to vote ethically
Jubilee Centre Videos, August 2009
Price: FREE
See how many questions you can get right - and where to find the answers before the next election.
All of us are at different places on the political spectrum. Votewise Now will not tell you how to vote, just help you vote according to your conscience. Careful thought and deliberation are needed to make informed decisions. Votewise Now!
Category: Multimedia
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
The Big Issues: A Group Discussion Guide for Voters
Guy Brandon & Rose Lynas, August 2009
Price: FREE
Eleven studies to accompany Votewise Now!, the Jubilee Centre book that helps evaluate the choices we will have as voters at the next election. Following the chapters in the book there are Bible studies on the Economy, Criminal Justice, Healthcare, Education, the Environment, International Order, Race Relations, Tax and Benefits, Employment and Housing. Each one is designed to last about half an hour leaving plenty of time for discussion and prayer.
Category: Bible Studies
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Votewise Now! Helping Christians engage with the issues
Rose Lynas (ed.), August 2009
Price: £4.49
'What this book may call us to is the revitalisation of politics as a whole.' (Dr Peter Selby, former Bishop of Worcester)
Votewise Now! argues that politics should be first and foremost about right relationships, and that the best way to 'do' politics is to engage with the things that really concern people.
Containing ten concise chapters written by experts in their field, this helpful volume examines 'the most important issues facing Britain today'. After outlining the key debates within each, Votewise Now! turns to biblical teaching for a Christian perspective, and then offers a series of principles against which readers may evaluate party promises and so vote wisely. The book concludes with a Christian MP from each of the UK's three main political parties responding to the question, 'Why should a Christian vote for your party?'
Don't miss the accompanying short video and additional group discussion materials!
Category: Books
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Education, Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Health, The Environment
Sustaining Democracy
Philip Sampson, July 2009
Price: FREE
It is now clear that modern Britain is secular, but an increasing recognition that Western democracies owe much to their Christian heritage gives rise to a disquieting thought. Might the secularisation of Western societies have consequences for a culture so indebted to Christianity? It is gradually dawning on perceptive commentators that democratic citizenship, even democracy itself, might be in trouble once cut free from its Christian moorings.
In Sustaining Democracy, Philip Sampson argues for the dis-establishment of a ‘secular’ religion, the opening of the public sphere to a prophetic Christian understanding of tolerance towards all religions, including that of ‘secularism’, and wonders whether the tools for renewal of Western democracy could lie in the hands of the still vibrant Church in Africa, Asia and South America.
Philip Sampson is a mediator, family court advisor and research fellow. He holds a Ph.D. in social sciences from the University of Southampton and is author of 6 Modern Myths About Christianity and Western Civilization.
Category: Reports
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
An Education Point of View
John Hayward, July 2009
Price: FREE
The Jubilee Centre has worked with the Evangelical Alliance's Forum for Change Education Cluster to draft a shared 'Point of View' on Education. This seeks to express a common position on what Christians think about education and aims to address the Church, the educational community and the wider society.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Education
Enhancing humans or a new creation?
Denis Alexander, June 2009 1 comment
Price: £0.99 (free online)
Enhancement involves giving abilities integral to the body beyond those we would normally consider a human to possess. Transhumanism is an influential philosophy based on human autonomy in which enhancement technologies play a central role. This paper summarises transhumanism, describes the scope of current enhancing technologies, and provides a Christian critique, presenting the biblical strategy for human transformation as a compelling alternative to the transhumanist project.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Science & Technology, Worldviews & Culture
On Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
John Hayward, June 2009
Price: FREE
Our latest Cambridge Paper, Enhancing Humans or a New Creation?, considers three levels of enhancement: the trivial (includes vaccination and contact lenses), the conventional (includes cosmetic surgery and the non-therapeutic use of drugs for cognitive enhancement), and the transhumanist. It concludes that, although trivial and conventional enhancements represent no threat to Christian faith, the kind of self-help through technology offered by transhumanism stands in stark contrast to the human transformation and positive relational alternative that is found in Christ.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Science & Technology, Worldviews & Culture
Toxic Culture: Sexualisation of children
Melinda Tankard Reist, June 2009
Price: FREE
Summary of a seminar co-sponsored by the Jubilee Centre on the impact of the media and popular culture on children and young women.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture
The Bible and Money: Managing one's money in the end times
Dr Paul Mills, May 2009
Price: FREE
An immensely practical eight-week course designed to help develop a biblical understanding of money and how we should use it, covering the following topics:
1. Possessions and money – who does the possessing?
2. Stewardship – for whom, for what, and when?
3. Giving – the real investment
4. Borrowing, lending, and debt – true ‘freedom’?
5. Saving and insurance – what does the future hold?
6. Investments and gambling – where should God’s money go?
7. Tax, pensions, and estate planning – when the end is nigh?
8. Church finances – nine marks of a healthy church budget
Category: Bible Studies
Keywords: Finance & the Economy