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Christian Hoteliers Wrong Over Gay Discrimination
I have just given a pre-recorded radio interview about the court decision against the bed and breakfast owners, Peter and Hazelmary Bull, who refused service to civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy on the basis of their sexuality. Here's what I said: If we are going to open our homes to strangers,...
John Hayward Posted: 21 January 2011 13 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Sex & Families,
Word of the Day: Neuropsychopharmacology
So, scientists have made progress in their development of drugs that could 'make us more clever,' but what are the ethical implications? This is what Denis Alexander said in our 2009 Cambridge Paper, Enhancing humans or a new creation?:'Cognitive enhancements span the complete gamut of categories, from...
John Hayward Posted: 20 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Science & Technology,
Real Electoral Reform
(This concludes Electoral Reform: a Biblical Approach and The AV Debate, which concluded that reform of the process by which individuals and the parties they represent are elected cannot bring about the change that is needed.) The key ingredient that we need if we are to see genuine electoral reform...
John Hayward Posted: 14 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
The AV Debate
(To avoid disappointment, this is not about the merits and demerits of the Authorised Version, or King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, four hundred years after its publication transformed the spirituality, language and culture of the English-speaking world, but is a continuation of yesterday's post,...
John Hayward Posted: 13 January 2011 6 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Electoral Reform: a Biblical Approach
Earlier this week I addressed a group in London on 'Electoral Reform - a Biblical Approach'. Feel free to comment on what I shared: I was based for the best part of a decade in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, just north of Afghanistan. During that time I saw the country emerge from a five-year...
John Hayward Posted: 12 January 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
The Real Merlin
Poisonous mandrake plants are due to be hurled into the River Danube and queen witch Bratara Buzea has devised a spell involving cat dung and a dead dog. No, this isn't the plot from the next series of Merlin. This is the response of some in Romania to the imposition of new income tax and health and...
John Hayward Posted: 7 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion,
Top Content of 2010
2010 saw an increase of almost 45 per cent in the number of unique visitors (totalling more than 42,000 individuals) using the Jubilee Centre's website to access our resources, compared with the previous year. The pages viewed give a degree of insight into people's interests: Top blog posts The Top Seven...
John Hayward Posted: 4 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues,
The Nativity: Was Jesus Welcomed or Rejected?
Just two of this season's headlines inspired by the traditional presentation of the nativity story include 'No Room in the Inn: Unborn Children Rejected Like Jesus' and the New Scientist's 'Away in a vermin-infested manger'—but is this really a faithful interpretation of the biblical account? Picture...
John Hayward Posted: 22 December 2010 6 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion,
The Morally Indefensible Normalising of Debt
We have previously questioned whether increased university tuition fees are fair and noted that Muslim warnings against tuition fee interest charges present a challenge to Christians. It was therefore pleasing to hear the contributions of some of the bishops to the Lords debate on the Higher Education...
John Hayward Posted: 16 December 2010 2 comments
Keywords: Education, Finance & the Economy,
The Working Prison
It is sixteen years since Jubilee Centre published Relational Justice: A Reform Dynamic For Criminal Justice, during which time the prison population has increased from around 49,000 to 85,227 (as at December 3rd). In fact, England and Wales has the second highest prison population in Western Europe,...
John Hayward Posted: 9 December 2010 2 comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice,
Richard Gunton on 5 May 2013
I found this a really stimulating talk - an excellent start to the afternoon. It went by so fast (or...
ps Yembe Mpeng Jacob on 18 Apr 2013
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,...