Tag: Democracy

80 days to go

by Jonathan Tame, 4th April 2016. It’s 80 days until the EU Referendum, and I’ve been recalling the time in 1983 when I visited Brussels for the first time, on an undergraduate field trip. We learned about how decisions made by the European institutions were filtered down to the ten member states of the EEC, and how the overriding vision was to make war between European nations unthinkable. The deadly European conflict of the first half of the 20th century must give ways to fruitful European cooperation in the second.

Votewise 2015

This reassuring, accessible and enjoyable guide to the 2015 General Election is for Christians who want to make sure their votes count. Published by SPCK in association with the Jubilee Centre, Votewise 2015 explains the main political ideas and buzz phrases that will become central in the next few months, clarifies the issues, and looks at them through a Christian lens. The book concludes by inviting Christian representatives of each of the five main political parties – Conservative, Green, Labour, Lib Dem and UKIP – to explain why they belong to the party they do, and to share their vision for the future.

Sustaining Democracy by Phillip Sampson

It is now clear that modern Britain is secular, but an increasing recognition that Western democracies owe much to their Christian heritage gives rise to a disquieting thought. Might the secularisation of Western societies have consequences for a culture so indebted to Christianity? It is gradually dawning on perceptive commentators that democratic citizenship, even democracy […]

Voting wisely: an antidote to consumer politics

Nick Spencer, December 2004 The publication of Votewise: helping Christians engage with the issues by Nick Spencer (SPCK, 2004) is the second in a series of three publications coming out of the Jubilee Centre in a six month period. In the midst of the most frenetic US election in history, democratic candidate John Kerry took […]

The case for Christian democracy

Ram Gidoomal CBE, December 2003 In the article ‘The case against Christian political parties’ Dr Michael Schluter argued against the case for Christians forming their own political parties. Ram Gidoomal CBE chaired the City life Boost Scheme and is Leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA), Britain’s first party of Christian Democratic inspiration. He argues […]