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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,
Social Class and Parenting
Parents' social class has a greater impact on how well their children perform at school than 'good parenting' techniques such as reading bedtime stories, claim researchers from the University of London's Institute of Education. In actual fact the study of around 11,000 seven-year-old children simply...
John Hayward Posted: 7 December 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Education, Finance & the Economy, Sex & Families,
Is Sexualised Marketing Inquiry Really Necessary?
Parent groups have welcomed news of a government inquiry to explore whether new rules should prevent the marketing of sexualised products aimed at children, such as 'Porn star' T-shirts or padded bras. What many appear to be forgetting is that just ten months ago the Home Office published its Sexualisation...
John Hayward Posted: 6 December 2010 No comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
What is Fair Pay?
Will Hutton's Independent Review of Fair Pay in the Public Sector has today published its Interim Report. It suggests, 'To be fair, pay must be proportional to each individuals' contribution, reflecting both the weight of the post and the performance of the post holder. ... Proportionality implies limits...
John Hayward Posted: 1 December 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Education White Paper on Bullying
Statistics on bullying are hard to obtain. Beatbullying recently claimed that 69 per cent of children in the UK report being bullied and 87 per cent of parents report that their child had been bullied in the past 12 months; in contrast, the NSPCC reports that 31 per cent of children experience bullying...
John Hayward Posted: 26 November 2010 3 comments
Keywords: Education, Lifestyle Issues,
The Importance Of Teaching
Yesterday Ofsted informed us that too much teaching 'is dull and uninspiring and this makes it harder for pupils to learn,' and that teaching is 'a big factor in poor behaviour as well as uneven exam results ... Too many schools tolerate pockets of poor teaching alongside good practice.' Today's education...
John Hayward Posted: 24 November 2010 No comments
Keywords: Education,
Unreality Abortion Show: Vote Now?!
It seems like a sick joke, but a US couple, Pete and Alisha Arnold, are letting the public vote on whether or not they should keep their baby, currently nicknamed Wiggles and shown in the ultrasound here at 16 weeks. Perhaps it is just the logical next step in the recent development of voyeaurism, reality...
John Hayward Posted: 19 November 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Health, Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
GWB: The Central Political Challenge of our Times
'It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being. Well-being can't be measured by money or traded in markets. It's about the beauty of our surroundings, the quality of our culture and, above all, the strength of our...
John Hayward Posted: 15 November 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Lifestyle Issues,
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...
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...