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Forming a Christian Mind
Guy Brandon, May 2013
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Following our Forming a Christian Mind Conference in April, here is a transcript of the introductory talk by Guy Brandon.
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Debt, Interest, and Finance
John Hayward, March 2011
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The financial crisis working its way through the US and Europe, mutating as it goes, demonstrates once more the dangers that debt-based finance poses to savers and taxpayers.
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Unmasking Witchcraft
John Hayward, December 2010
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‘Magic’ and ‘sorcery’ conjure up images of Harry Potter, Disney’s Fantasia, or perhaps Macbeth. However, while modern secular society dismisses witchcraft, Dr Jonathan Burnside explains in our new Cambridge Paper, Covert Power, why we should take witchcraft seriously.
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End-Times Politics
John Hayward, September 2010
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Eschatology is neither remote nor esoteric, but is highly relevant to Christian living. The ‘last days’ are here, the Messiah is reigning now at the right hand of God the Father, and Christians are to pray (as Jesus famously taught his disciples) for God’s will to be done right here, right now. The glory of God’s future kingdom critiques all our efforts but spurs us ever on to work out our obedience in all areas of life.
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Beyond Individualism
Jubilee Centre Events, May 2010
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At our day conference in May, a variety of speakers helped us consider the search for relational hope in the 21st century. It was opened by politics professor and pastor Dale Kuehne, for whom Perry Miller's phrase 'Standing on the threshold of an inconceivable age' encapsulates what it is to look out into a postmodern future.
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture
'From Every Kind of Oppression'
John Hayward, December 2009
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Modern slavery is thriving and millions of vulnerable people are subjected to debt bondage and trafficked across the globe. In many parts of the world, women are oppressed by honour killings, forced prostitution, genital excision, (sex-selective) abortion, and exclusion from education and literacy. The poor are exploited by unfair trade, and large swathes of the world’s population are denied basic religious freedoms.
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The Tyranny of Equality and Human Rights
John Hayward, March 2009
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Our March 2009 Cambridge Paper, Three principles for Christian citizens, argues that if we are heading for a society characterised by ever greater moral and religious diversity, then more than ever we need a political programme which seeks the common good, divides authority and respects conscience.
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs
Taking the Long View
John Hayward, December 2008
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How can we measure the extent to which we are realising our vision of a movement of organisations, churches and individual Christians advancing a coherent and positively-stated biblical social agenda that is of benefit to the whole of society?
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Worldviews & Culture
The Church, race and ethnicity (a summary)
John Hayward, December 2008
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A quick summary of our Cambridge Paper on Unity And Diversity by Dr Sujit Sivasundaram, which brings the twin principles of unity and diversity to bear on four contexts: the individual Christian, the local congregation, the global church and the church in society.
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Beyond 2008: Our Vision
John Hayward, September 2008
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The challenges facing society today appear greater than ever, so what have we achieved since the Jubilee Centre was founded 25 years ago, and what should our role be in the years ahead?
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Book Review: Creation or Evolution - Do We Have to Choose?
Denis Alexander (reviewed by Andrew Halestrap), July 2008
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Many scientists, championed by the likes of Richard Dawkins, argue with an almost evangelical zeal that science has all but disproved God. As these views begin to take root in society it is vital that Christians are able to expose the flaws and inconsistencies in the underlying arguments. Yet this task is made harder by some Christians whose desire to uphold the authority of Scripture has led them to dismiss current scientific understanding of the Universe and especially the theory of Evolution.
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Science & Technology
God's Law: All you need is love
John Hayward, June 2008
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In a heavily indebted economy, is the ban on interest merely a dead letter? Ought Christians to be marking one day in seven as special, putting aside work for the whole day? Does it matter if a man and his niece get married? Is there anything wrong with cross-dressing? Should Christians tithe? Should Christians not eat meat with blood in it?
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Christian Social Engagement
Michael Schluter, June 2008
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Especially since the 1960s, there has been a new and urgent search to find a biblical framework for Christian social engagement. In South America and South Africa, the major focus has been ‘liberation for the poor’ and the Exodus theme has provided an important source of inspiration. More recently, Ronald Sider and others in the US have been writing about the ways evangelicals can engage with public policy. Across much of continental Europe, the Christian Democratic parties, built on a philosophy with Christian roots called ‘Personalism’, continue to exercise a significant and sometimes dominant political influence. The problem is that each of these approaches is producing very different policy agendas. Which should we follow?
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs, Worldviews & Culture
Call for action to save 'Evangelical'
John Hayward, April 2008
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Evangelicals are perceived to be those who campaign against contraception and against homosexuals, are opposed to women bishops, open private ‘creationist’ schools, and preach witchcraft.
If the term ‘evangelical’ is to not to go the same way as ‘fundamentalist’, then evangelicals must act now.
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Book Review: The Church of Irresistible Influence
Robert Lewis (reviewed by Alan White), September 2007
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Although this isn’t a new book, it came to our attention because its central thesis is 'that the Great Commandment to “love your neighbour as yourself” (Matthew 22.39) is just as essential to the spread of the gospel and to the sanctification of church members as the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20).' In short, it argues that local churches need to build bridges, to build relationships, to their local communities.
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Jesus Life-Changing Relationship with Simon Peter
Chris Pain, June 2007
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The transformation of Simon, a Galilean fisherman, to Peter, leader of a religious movement prepared to challenge and defy the Jewish and Roman authorities, is a story of enduring power and has provided hope and inspiration for Christians throughout the ages. In this article we can only highlight some key moments in the relationship between Jesus and Simon Peter that caused this transformation.
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Book Review: Pierced for our Transgressions
Steve Jeffery et al (reviewed by Alan White), March 2007
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In some ways, it’s a shame that this book had to be written. The authors remind us that “the doctrine of penal substitution states that God gave himself in the person of his Son to suffer instead of us the death, punishment and curse due to fallen humanity as the penalty for sin”. Although this is the historic Christian view, it has recently been challenged, not just in the rarified atmosphere of theological departments but also in more accessible Christian books and magazine articles. In response, Pierced for our Transgressions presents a clear and indeed enthusiastic affirmation of penal substitution.
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Book Review: Glory Days
Julian Hardyman (reviewed by Jason Fletcher), September 2006
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Glory Days matters because of the persistence of an ancient misconception – that the spiritual is good and the material bad. That growing in relationship with God is so important that this world pales into insignificance. That only saving souls has lasting value and nothing else has intrinsic worth. Most of us reject this ‘sacred–secular divide’ in principle but many of us have been discouraged by the subtle, or not so subtle, ways it manages to creep into our churches, often more by what is not said than by what is.
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The Contribution of Narrative to Old Testament Ethics
Gordon Wenham, June 2006
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Although standard practice among preachers and commentators to draw ethical teaching from biblical narrative, in scholarly circles such an approach has been highly unfashionable for the last two centuries. The main issue that confronts the reader of the biblical stories is: who is the reader meant to identify with? Is it with the actors in the story, or with the narrator or more precisely the implied author of the story?
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Relational apologetics
Michael Schluter, December 2004
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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
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.
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Old Testament ethics for the people of God
Chris Wright, June 2004
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The Jubilee Centre vision has always been driven by a conviction that the whole Bible is relevant for social ethics. But how can Christians make valid and principled use of the Old Testament in arriving at ethical positions and decisions? Chris Wright's Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (IVP: May 2004), is a major new edition of his 1983 book, Living as the People of God: the Relevance of Old Testament Ethics, which helped provide a hermeneutical biblical basis for the Jubilee Centres thinking and action. This is an edited version of extracts from two chapters.
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The future of the English parish
Nick Spencer, March 2004
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The English parish, one of the oldest and best-loved institutions in England, is in a state of crisis. Apart from a short period in the late nineteenth century, the ideal of one priest per parish has never really existed. Parishes have always been understaffed and often neglected...
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Advanced celebration of mission accomplished
Chris Wright, December 2003
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The task I have been given is to lift up our thoughts and our hearts to the future. Psalm 96 is very suitable indeed for that purpose. There is a wonderful universality within this Psalm, celebrating God's involvement with the whole world...
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The kinsman-redeemer
Jason Fletcher, September 2003
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The book of Ruth tells a compelling story with layers of meaning. We are encouraged, for example, by Gods generous provision for the vulnerable widows Naomi and Ruth, by his ability to take his people from emptiness to wholeness...
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Listening to Agnostics
Mark Greene, September 2003
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Humble listening, John Stott once wrote, is indispensable to relevant preaching. Humble listening is also indispensable to good relationships and therefore effective evangelism...
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Rethinking relationships in the church
David McMillan, June 2003
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Relational thinking challenges us to reappraise the basis on which relationships in contemporary church life should be understood. All too often relationships are shaped by an inherited institutional framework, rendering them superficial and ineffective...
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After 20 years (1983-2003)
Jubilee Centre, March 2003
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The Jubilee Centre has been working for social change for 20 years! Is that not cause for celebration? From its inception, the Jubilee Centre has sought to explore biblical social teaching...
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