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Free sex: Who pays? photograph

Free sex: Who pays?

Guy Brandon, January 2012   5 comments

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Rather than addressing fundamental moral issues around sexual freedom, this paper starts with our culture’s premise by taking a utilitarian approach and exploring the financial impacts. This is in line with the common assumption that what truly matters for public policy can be quantified. It argues that significant costs of sexual freedom are imposed on society as a whole, rather than borne solely by the individuals most directly involved. This represents an enormous moral hazard and, as a result, unsustainable and unjust public expenditure. The paper then explores ways to address this, the most compelling of which is the Bible’s emphasis on rootedness and group responsibility.

Category: Cambridge Papers

Keywords: Sex & Families

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A Christian Response to Immigration

Guy Brandon, December 2011

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Immigration is a live and perennial issue, and often prompts polarised and unhelpful responses from politicians, the media and the public. Our default viewpoint is frequently one of suspicion, a simplistic reaction that assumes immigrants all come for the same reason and have identical motives. The Old Testament's approach to immigration was far more nuanced, and a biblical view of nationhood and immigration helps to bring a degree of balance and proportion to the debate.

Category: Reports

Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs

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Jubilee Lifestyle - Users Guide photograph

Jubilee Lifestyle - Users Guide

Jubilee Centre, October 2011

Price: £1.49 (free download)

Building on our 2010 biblical lifestyle book, Free to Live, Jubilee Lifestyle encourages participants to explore how they might more fully allow their faith to shape how they live seven days a week, at work, at home and in the community, not just on Sundays at church. Do you dare take the seven-week Jubilee Lifestyle challenge?

Category: Bible Studies

Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Lifestyle Issues, Worldviews & Culture

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Jubilee Lifestyle - Leaders Notes

Jubilee Centre, October 2011

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Building on our 2010 biblical lifestyle book, Jubilee Lifestyle’s radical approach is grounded in the Bible’s central principles of love for God and love for neighbour that have shaped the emphasis on relationships that lies at the heart of all the Jubilee Centre’s work. Contains everything needed to run the course in your church!

Category: Bible Studies

Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Lifestyle Issues, Worldviews & Culture

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Uniformity or mutuality? The new equality law in Christian perspective

Julian Rivers, September 2011   1 comment

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The Equality Act 2010 was the last major piece of legislation to be passed under the British ‘New Labour’ Government. This paper explains briefly what equality law does as well as two groups of related problem cases. It sets out a biblical foundation for equality as well as a distinctive conception characterised more by mutuality than uniformity. Against this background, the paper argues that we need to combat an equality culture which trivialises religious and ethical disagreement, to reform the law to protect the pluralism of civil society and accommodate individuals, and to rediscover the real issue of equality, which is material, relational and spiritual poverty.

Category: Cambridge Papers

Keywords: Crime & Justice, Government & Foreign Affairs

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Outside the frame: Postmodern art photograph

Outside the frame: Postmodern art

Anne Roberts, July 2011   3 comments

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This paper focuses on the scope and characteristics of recent conceptual and installation art, looking first at the early development of this genre, and then examining four major aspects: the exploration of visual language and appropriation of images; art based on autobiography; work which deals with social and environmental issues; and finally art which appropriates religious imagery. The paper concludes with reflections on finding a Christian voice in response.

Category: Cambridge Papers

Keywords: Worldviews & Culture

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Cohabitation: An Alternative to Marriage? photograph

Cohabitation: An Alternative to Marriage?

John Hayward & Guy Brandon, June 2011

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Cohabitation serves a range of purposes and masks a wide variety of commitment levels: it cannot be considered solely as an alternative to marriage, as is its popular perception. Building on the Jubilee Centre's 2010 report into cohabitation trends, and based on even more recent data from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study, this year-by-year analysis reveals a clearer picture of how trends have changed over time – and continue to change – and a better understanding of the present situation. This allows for a broader range of conclusions and a better understanding of how cohabitation itself is viewed by couples today, compared to attitudes in previous decades.

Category: Reports

Keywords: Sex & Families

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Christian involvement in the Big Society: a means to what end? photograph

Christian involvement in the Big Society: a means to what end?

Daniel Strange, June 2011

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From our 2011 Big Society and the Church conference, Dr Daniel Strange, author of the Jubilee Centre's 2005 Cambridge Paper 'Co-belligerence and common grace' and lecturer in Culture, Religion and Public Theology at Oak Hill Theological College considers whether the 'Big Society' is the right sort of opportunity for the Church.

Category: Multimedia

Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs

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The Big Society: from Biblical Israel to Secular Britain photograph

The Big Society: from Biblical Israel to Secular Britain

Guy Brandon, June 2011

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From our 2011 Big Society and the Church conference, Dr Guy Brandon, Senior Researcher at Jubilee Centre and author of our report 'The Big Society in Context: A means to what end?' brings lessons from biblical Israel for our complex society.

Category: Multimedia

Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs

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The Great Financial Crisis: A biblical diagnosis photograph

The Great Financial Crisis: A biblical diagnosis

Paul Mills, March 2011   13 comments

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The self-destructive tendency of a debt-based financial system is being retaught with a vengeance by the current financial crisis. To diagnose our current plight, this paper expounds the biblical teaching on debt, interest, and finance; explains what is really going on from a relational perspective; and draws applications for the Christian, the church, and society.

Category: Cambridge Papers

Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Finance & the Economy

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