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Understanding Sexual Offences Reform
Jubilee Centre, September 2005
Price: FREE
The Jubilee Centre is publishing a new report on sexual offences reform in the light of biblical law in the next few months. The report is written by Jonathan Burnside. In the first of two articles, we look at the present situation and the underpinnings of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Keywords: Crime & Justice
Concordis Peace-builders: one year on
Peter Dixon, September 2005
Price: FREE
Twelve months on from becoming an independent charity, we look back thankfully on a year in which Concordis International has built up trust on all sides in Sudan, currently our main area of operations.
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Introducing Jubilee Manifesto
Michael Schluter & John Ashcroft, June 2005
Price: FREE
In order to celebrate the release of Jubilee Manifesto with IVP we have suspended the normal publication of Engage this quarter and have produced this four-page introduction instead. Although Jubilee Manifesto is, in a sense, only the end of the beginning, as it is also the realisation of a 30-year-old dream born in East Africa. We hope you will find this introduction helpful and that you will consider ordering a copy today. For any who want to bring about change in society Jubilee Manifesto is a crucial handbook of both theory and practice.
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs
Time poverty is destroying family life
John Alexander, March 2005
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Although greeted with scornful and derisive laughter, we in the Keep Sunday Special Campaign tried hard in the 80s and 90s to convince the country that the destruction of Sunday as a day of rest and recreation would have terrible consequences. We argued that it would damage society in a way that all of us would regret in the years ahead.
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues
Votewise in focus: education
Nick Spencer, March 2005
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Education,like all major political issues, encompasses many different debates: examination standards, school discipline, pupil exclusions, paperwork, and targets, to name just a few. However, beneath these seemingly disparate issues, lies one key question that is, regrettably, only rarely asked. What is education for?
Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs
How many votes for democracy?
Martyn Eden, March 2005
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At the last general election, in 2001, only 59.4 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote, fewer than at any election since universal, adult franchise was introduced. The Labour Party won 63 per cent of the seats but only 41 percent of the votes. That meant that only 24 per cent of the electorate backed the Government, which was hardly a popular mandate. This result was no aberration. Seldom do more than 35 per cent vote in Local elections and the UK has the lowest turnout in elections for the European Parliament.
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
What is the Christian vision for Britain?
Michael Schluter, March 2005
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A well known proverb says 'Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law', Proverbs 29.18 (NIV). In the AV, this version reads, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish'. The idea is the same. A social vision matters. But a social vision ultimately has to find its roots in revelation if it is to be sustainable.
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Votewise in focus: healthcare
Nick Spencer, March 2005
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Nigel Lawson once called the NHS 'the closest thing the English have to a religion'. It is not hard to see what he meant. The NHS has been one of the two or three most important issues facing Britain in the public mind for each of the last fifteen years and the public's top spending priority since records began in 1983.
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Health
The conduct of war: lessons from Deuteronomy 20
Hetty Lalleman, December 2004
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Warfare has been part of human life from early times. It is one of the consequences of what happened in Genesis 3 - rebellion against God. The Old Testament is not a book which only contains pious phrases about human beings and God. Of course, God reveals himself in the Bible, but he does so throughout real history of human beings, who indeed are very human from time to time.
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs
Relational apologetics
Michael Schluter, December 2004
Price: FREE
Christianity, as we have often said before in this column, is a 'relational religion'. This means that in a Christian view of the world relationships precede - in time and in importance - the material world, although intimately connected with that world. It means that getting relationships right, or putting them right, is of greater significance than increasing national or personal wealth. It means that each of us derives our value not from our job and what we can do, but from our relationships, who we are.
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Lifestyle Issues