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The relational cost of unemployment
Guest contributor Ruth Garvey Williams shares a story from Ireland about how unemployment is much more than being out of work...Take a look at the statistics and you'll know that Ireland is in trouble. A national rate of 14% unemployment seems bad enough. But in certain parts of the country this figure...
Ruth Garvey-Williams Posted: 17 May 2013 2 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
Jubilee Centre founder in the Sydney Morning Herald
Ross Gittins, the Economics Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote an article yesterday that summarises the kind of 'Relational Thinking' promoted by the Jubilee Centre. Gittins asks how economists and business people who see themselves as Christians translate their faith into their work. He goes...
Jonathan Tame Posted: 2 April 2013 No comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Finance & the Economy, Worldviews & Culture,
The Chancellor's budget: one week on
From guest writer Matthew Gray, an Independent Financial Advisor and church leader.Having listened to (and now read the transcript of) the Chancellor's Budget speech, my thoughts would be in general that there is much to commend it. Certainly this budget, in its general ethos, is better than the old...
Matthew Gray Posted: 28 March 2013 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs,
What are we working towards?
'There is no God-given rule saying you've got to have a well-performing economy. It could be an indifferent economy. It's a question of whether the national will is there; whether we want it. And the richer you get the less imperative there is.'In his interview with the Independent Lord Heseltine was...
Guy Brandon Posted: 25 March 2013 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Courses on Horses II
There are a number of lessons for Christians to learn from the horsemeat scandal - aside from a national epidemic of equine-themed puns.It could hardly have come as a surprise when Environment Secretary Owen Paterson suggested that the presence of horse DNA in beef products could be due to an 'international...
Guy Brandon Posted: 12 February 2013 1 comment
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Health,
Forgive us our debts: Jubilee Centre conferences
The two conferences were well attended on Saturday, with more than 100 people gathering at Christ Church in Cambridge to hear a range of presentations on biblical perspectives about debt and finance. In the morning, Michael Schluter gave an overview of the Bible's approach to the economy, then Paul Mills...
Guy Brandon Posted: 24 September 2012 9 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Jubilee Handbook
A biblical roadmap for the 21st centuryThe way we think about our culture's political, economic and social problems is flawed and confused. Society is not made up of distinct elements we can treat in isolation from each other. How we view one idea - the state; property ownership; the economy; the...
Guy Brandon Posted: 26 June 2012 2 comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
After Capitalism
The period of relative calm surrounding the future of the Euro abruptly came to an end last week. Francois Hollande was elected as the next president of France, replacing Nicolas Sarkozy. The change represented a shift away from austerity towards an emphasis on growth, something the markets have read...
Guy Brandon Posted: 15 May 2012 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Forever in your debt
The Treasury has announced that it is considering issuing bonds with a 100-year repayment date, or even longer. 'Super long' gilts - last issued to help pick up the cost of World War 1 - would have no set redemption date.The idea behind this scheme is to lock in low interest rates for government borrowing...
Guy Brandon Posted: 14 March 2012 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Does our reputation match our heart?
Given it's St Valentine's Day, perhaps it's not surprising that there have been a lot of news items around what people think of each other, about reputation, about what we say or think we are and how others view us.Firstly, at a national level, we have the ratings agency Moody's warning that they think...
Alan White Posted: 14 February 2012 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Finance & the Economy,
Jamie on 21 May 2013
This is heartbreaking. Families should not be torn apart like this. Thank you for sharing this important...
Mike Causey on 17 May 2013
Wow - thanks Ruth, for writing about this. I did not know about the high numbers emigrating, and it really...
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...