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But you promised....!
There have been a number of news items recently that are about people making promises and then being accused of breaking them.We have the Syrian Government's ceasefire and withdrawal undertakings to Kofi Annan being described as 'relatively respected' - by which is meant that government forces have stopped...
Alan White Posted: 13 April 2012 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Lifestyle Issues,
Send us your feedback
It's been six months since we released the Jubilee Lifestyle course, and we'd love to know how people are getting on with it. We've had some great feedback from churches and small groups who have run it, some more than once, and from individuals who have appreciated the chance to get to grips with some...
Guy Brandon Posted: 28 March 2012 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues,
Jubilee Lifestyle discipleship course at Newfrontiers' Conference
The launch of the Jubilee Lifestyle discipleship course got off to a good start by featuring prominently at two Christian conferences over the weekend - one in Milton Keynes, the other in Sheffield. I was very happy I attended the Newfrontiers' conference 'Jubilee +' on church social action, led by Martin...
Alan White Posted: 4 October 2011 No comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Lifestyle Issues,
A Cure for Compulsive Consumerism
Over four years ago, UNICEF published its Innocenti report Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries, highlighting how the physical and emotional well-being of British children is the worst among the world's wealthiest nations. For at least some of its authors, the...
John Hayward Posted: 16 September 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
Cyber-Bullying: The Latest Evidence
We have noted previously that statistics on bullying are hard to obtain and that the Commons Education and Skills Committee has identified two types of bullying of particular concern: cyber-bullying and prejudice-driven bullying. The following is the latest research on the former from academics here...
John Hayward Posted: 3 August 2011 No comments
Keywords: Education, Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology,
Towards a Sustainable Common Fisheries Policy
'If no reform takes place, only 8 stocks out of 136 will be at sustainable levels in 2022. In other words, if we don't make structural changes to the way we do business now, we will loose one fish stock after the other, with a possible chain reaction for the ecosystem that is hard to predict.' At last...
John Hayward Posted: 13 July 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Lifestyle Issues, The Environment,
Pre-Marital Sex: Cause or Symptom of Later Relationship Difficulties?
A University of Iowa study has found that women who make their sexual debut as young teens are more likely to divorce, especially if 'the first time' was unwanted, or if she had mixed feelings about it. The analysis found that 31 percent of women who had sex for the first time as teens divorced within...
John Hayward Posted: 24 June 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Slutwalking
'Too many overprotected middle-class girls have a dangerously naïve view of the world. They fail to see the animality and primitivism of sex, historically controlled by traditions of religion and morality now steadily dissolving in the West. ... When it devalued motherhood, Western feminism undermined...
John Hayward Posted: 13 June 2011 3 comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Long Commutes Drive Couples Apart
The ONS yesterday reported that people with long commutes to work tend to earn more than those who have short commutes: Median hourly earnings by travel time, London and Rest of UK, October-December 2009 What they did not also highlight was the impact that long commutes have on personal relationships.
John Hayward Posted: 3 June 2011 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Health, Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
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,
Tanvir on 22 Jan 2013
Job status is celanitry one consideration, but the emphasis today from our culture that you have to have...
Kevin McMillen on 6 Jan 2012
Eisegesis is the interpretation of a text (as of the Bible) by reading into it one's own ideas. Mainstream...
Kevin McMillen on 6 Jan 2012
The phrase "first day of the week" isn't anywhere in the Greek manuscripts of the bible. The Greek manuscripts...