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Moral, But No Compass
Christianity 'discriminated against by Gordon Brown's Government' [The Daily Telegraph]The policies of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have helped to generate a spiritual, civic and economic crisis in Britain, according to an important Church of England report. [The Times]The Saturday papers made for an...
John Hayward Posted: 9 June 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Britain's Knife Culture
According to the Justice Secretary Jack Straw, the number of offenders jailed for possessing a knife or a bladed instrument has risen from 300 a year in 1997 to over a thousand. Despite this, a record 27 teenagers were murdered in London last year, eighteen of them in stabbings, while in Liverpool a...
John Hayward Posted: 5 June 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Crime & Justice,
End to 'Fatherless' Children?
The Government is amazingly inconsistent. One month it condemns a whole class of children to fatherlessness. The next it reveals, "Change to birth laws means an end to 'fatherless' children" (today's Times). In future, all fathers will be required to sign their baby's birth certificate under a change...
John Hayward Posted: 3 June 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Our Forgotten Christian Heritage
"Christianity, and nothing else is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options [than Christianity]. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter."Church...
John Hayward Posted: 29 May 2008 4 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Worldviews & Culture,
Change for Burma!
As Burma’s tragedy continues, it is time for Christians to act. In Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), we have a motto: “Pray, Protest, Provide” and we need to do all three.Last week CSW launched a new campaign, Change for Burma!, with the support of former Archbishop of Cape Town...
Benedict Rogers Posted: 28 May 2008 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Uniqueness of Christ in Multi-Faith Britain
"That this Synod request the House of Bishops to report to the Synod on their understanding of the uniqueness of Christ in Britain's multi-faith society, and offer examples and commendations of good practice in sharing the gospel of salvation through Christ alone with people of other faiths and of none."The...
John Hayward Posted: 27 May 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion,
Power to the People
During the Crewe & Nantwich by-election, which the Conservatives won last night with an impressive 17.6% swing, Labour were criticised for conflating the questions of immigration and identity cards in one of their leaflets by asking "Do you oppose making foreign nationals carry an ID card?" Earlier this...
John Hayward Posted: 23 May 2008 No comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice,
Discrimination Against Christians
"Doctors and nurses can't choose who they treat and nor should a registrar be allowed to discriminate."So asserted the chief executive of the gay rights group Stonewall in yesterday's Times, concerning the civil registrar who is facing dismissal after refusing to undertake civil partnership duties. His...
John Hayward Posted: 22 May 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
A couple of people have written to ask me what I make of the votes over the past couple of days on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Given what I have written previously (see Of Mice and Men and Hybrid Embryo Research Breakthrough), it will come as no surprise that I find the...
John Hayward Posted: 21 May 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Science & Technology,
Global Warming Impact Questioned
"The main point that we want to emphasise is that there is no evidence in this study that we are seeing large greenhouse-gas-driven increases in Atlantic hurricane or tropical storm frequencies."A key part of the scientific method is that predictions should be derived from any hypothesis that can then...
John Hayward Posted: 19 May 2008 2 comments
Keywords: The Environment,
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