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Safe Sex Education Recommendations
The primary school at which I am a parent governor is currently revising the materials it uses for sex and relationships education, in recognition that the 1970s BBC videos that it has been using in recent years are very outdated. The school is likely to use the excellent SRE unit from the International...
John Hayward Posted: 29 March 2011 4 comments
Keywords: Education, Sex & Families,
Intervention in Libya: For Better or Worse?
'What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea – a new world order – where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom and the rule of law.' (George Bush, January 1991) Just as at the time...
John Hayward Posted: 25 March 2011 3 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Faith in the Big Society?
In case you missed it, here's my piece from the Guardian's Comment is Free this week: Christians will build the 'big society' – if they are allowed Worshippers do more voluntary work than non-believers. Yet the government is doing little to support them in their faith. The success of the "big society"...
John Hayward Posted: 18 March 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Acts of God?
'People no longer see natural disasters as an act of God. However, we are now reaping what we have sown. If we live in a profligate way then there are going to be consequences. We have a responsibility in this and God is exposing us to the truth of what we have done.' (Rt Rev James Jones, speaking after...
John Hayward Posted: 11 March 2011 4 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, The Environment,
What Big Society Really Means: One Top Condition For Success and Five Practical Examples
TimeBank is a charity which puts volunteers in touch with projects where their skills are needed, but depends on government funding for a quarter of its income. In the past decade it has 'made an important contribution to mobilising an army of 300,000 volunteers and to improving the quality of volunteering,'...
John Hayward Posted: 9 March 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Will British Teenagers Follow American Trend Towards Greater Abstinence?
'Compared with data from 2002, a higher percentage of males and females 15-24 in 2006-2008 have had no sexual contact with another person. In 2002, 22% of young men and women 15-24 had never had any sexual contact with another person, and in 2006-2008, those figures were 27% for males and 29% for females.'...
John Hayward Posted: 7 March 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Is Britain an Open, Confident Society?
Yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister gave a speech in Luton entitled An Open, Confident Society: The Application of Muscular Liberalism in a Multicultural Society. Building on the Prime Minister's recent comments on the failure of multiculturalism, Nick Clegg asserted: 'Once established, liberal societies...
John Hayward Posted: 4 March 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Christians Need Re-education
On Monday two High Court judges ruled that homosexual rights 'should take precedence' over the right not to be discriminated against on religious grounds, albeit under very limited circumstances. Eunice and Owen Johns had previously raised four of their own children and provided foster care for nearly...
John Hayward Posted: 1 March 2011 4 comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Education, Sex & Families,
Is Divorce Becoming Less Socially Acceptable?
For the fifth consecutive year the number of divorces granted in the UK has fallen, to 10.5 divorcing people per thousand married population. This is the lowest rate since 1977 and, at 126,496 divorces, is 30 per cent lower than the highest number of divorces, which peaked at 180,523 in 1993. Interestingly,...
John Hayward Posted: 22 February 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
A Very British Revolution
At times it sounds as though the Prime Minister wants to associate his promised Big Society reforms with the public hunger for freedom that has led in recent days to violence in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Iran: 'The grip of state control will be released and power will be placed...
John Hayward Posted: 21 February 2011 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
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Now that the world is driven wild by gaining wealth without God, this handbook will help even African...
Bob Simpson on 26 Mar 2013
Yes Harry, we are. But we seem to be talking about it in a context that is thousands of years apart,...