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From Generation 2 Generation: celebrating 30 years of Pramacare
Guy Brandon, May 2012
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A transcript of the address given at the start of Pramacare's conference on 17 May, 2012, celebrating their 30th anniversary. Pramacare generously funded the work on the fully revised and updated edition of From Generation 2 Generation. The book was completed thanks to the involvement of Jonathan Martin, who brought together the Jubilee Centre, the writing team and Pramacare through his organisation No Boundaries.
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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
Homelessness is about relationships
Iain Gordon, December 2007
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However many new houses we build across the country, they alone will not be enough to end homelessness in our communities. Homelessness is about more than houses; people who have been homeless will tell you that homelessness is largely about relationships.
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Ten Lessons from Ten Years at Citylife
Martin Clark, June 2007
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After ten years working first at Relationships Foundation and then Citylife, the project RF started as an independent charitable society, I offered my Top ten lessons learnt at staff prayers. And for some reason the editor of Engage felt they deserved a wider audience!
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Relational Support: What it is and Why it Matters
Michael Schluter, June 2007
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What is relationship, or relational, support? Lets start with the more familiar idea of financial support. When we get into a financial crisis, we look to those who can give us appropriate help to get through the moment of need.
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Thriving Lives
Phil Caroe, June 2007
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Over recent years our society has been going through a phase of re-evaluating priorities. The UK, like many other developed nations, has achieved unprecedented material prosperity and made huge leaps in science and technology. But there's a growing feeling that something is missing.
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Learning from the Relationships of Jesus: Part 2
Chris Pain, December 2006
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Broadly speaking, the gospels aim to demonstrate that Jesus was the Son of God and worthy of following they do not seek to present a complete picture of his relationships. We only see glimpses of Jesus interactions with people, and what were likely to have been lengthy conversations are summed up in a few words.
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Building Hope into the Structures of Society
John Ashcroft, December 2006
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Imagine waiting for some help. I think back to long hot waits while hitch-hiking in Africa as a teenager. Hope appeared on the horizon, and often disappeared in a cloud of dust. Hopes can easily be raised and disappointed, but when you really need help the loss of hope can be a truly crushing experience.
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Learning from the Relationships of Jesus
Chris Pain, September 2006
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As regular readers will know, part of the bedrock of the Jubilee Centres research and activity over the last 23 years has been our understanding of Matthew 22:34-40, where Jesus is asked to name the greatest commandment. Instead, he picks two and then goes further. He does not merely say these are the two greatest commandments, but all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
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Transforming Community Relationships
Michael Schluter, June 2006
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About two years ago Michael Schluter was invited by five Anglican ministers from Camberley in Surrey to explore how he thought they could influence the Camberley community with Christian values for the sake of the gospel.
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Sunday under threat (again)
Michael Clark, March 2006
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For the first time in 12 years, Sunday trading is again a key topic in the media. Numerous phone-in and discussion programmes have already looked at the key questions. Why? The Government, under pressure from a number of large supermarket groups, has announced its intention to review the existing Sunday Trading Act, which was introduced in 1994 and allows Sunday trading by large shops for up to six hours.
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Lifestyle Issues
Money Or A Life, The Choice Was Yours
Ross Gittins, September 2005
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The industrial changes might be a chance to pad the wallet, but at a price. I doubt if there is anyone in the world who would tell you our relationships are not more important than money. And yet there is often a big gap between what we believe and what we do. In practice, we're always putting money whether earning it or spending it ahead of our relations with family, friends and neighbours.
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Lifestyle Issues
Time and priorities
Michael Schluter, September 2005
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We have all got used to the idea that money is our scarcest resource. So at both a personal and a professional level, much time and effort goes into working out how best to allocate it, budget it, spend it, tax it and invest it. Various academic disciplines have developed to ensure its efficient use, including accounting and economics. However, it is now gradually dawning on people that there is a resource which is even more scarce than money: time.
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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.
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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 hidden dimension
Michael Schluter, September 2004
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What we call 'The R Factor' is also a hidden dimension. Watching a man walking down a City street you see his business suit, briefcase, club tie, umbrella. What you cannot see are his relationships - with his wife, children, siblings and mother; his friends, work colleagues and business customers; his GP and dentist; and with God.
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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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Obesity: causes and cures
Michael Schluter, March 2004
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Obesity in Britain is a rapidly growing problem. Since 1980 the number of obese people has trebled. It matters not just because it is generally associated with low self-esteem, but also because it increases the risk illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. Obesity is estimated to cost the NHS 500m a year and the economy 18 million sick days a year...
Keywords: Health, Lifestyle Issues
Where is your treasure?
Nick Spencer, September 2003
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Our society has an odd relationship with money. We like to denounce our 24-7 retail culture, and yet still shop out of hours in our millions. We lament the estimated 800 billion consumer debt we have accrued, but wait nervously for the next consumer spending figures...
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Lifestyle Issues
Retirement: a second vocation
Julia Burton-Jones, September 2003
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When I was studying social administration at university in Bristol in the mid-1980s it was a privilege to hear the thoughts of Peter Townsend on British society. One of the issues I remember him addressing with passion was retirement policy...
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And who is my neighbour?
Nick Spencer, July 2003
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Five years ago my neighbour died 15 feet away from me. I learnt of his death only two days later when I saw a young woman clearing out his flat. He had suffered a massive heart attack and died while on the phone to the ambulance. I hadnt known his name. Two front doors, one hallway and a million miles had separated us...[First published in Christianity and Renewal]
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The relationships option
Michael Schluter, March 2003
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As Im fond of saying, Christianity is a relational religion. What does that mean? Unlike Eastern religions where the individual personality will be absorbed into the great nothing beyond time, Christians believe that from the beginning relationships have been an aspect of who God is...
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