Difficult histories: Christian memory and historic injustice
By John Coffey[1] Summary Recent years have witnessed heated debate over how Western nations remember their pasts. A generation of ...
This new report by Matt N. Williams demonstrates that family dysfunction is a key driver in poverty and, because of this, healthier families are a big part of the solution.
It's a sharp challenge to those of us in the church who've been so busy arguing about the definition of family, that we've forgotten why it exists.
By John Coffey[1] Summary Recent years have witnessed heated debate over how Western nations remember their pasts. A generation of ...
By Tony Watkins Summary Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, is well known for his antipathy towards religion. Yet although he ...
The incarnation, embodiment and material culture By Nigel Walter ‘We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.’ ...
Church buildings reflect the theology of those who built them. What seems central - is it the altar for sacraments, the pulpit for preaching or the stage for the worship band? Yet our church buildings have a much deeper story to tell and a significant role to play in the communities around them. In this event we reflect theologically on church buildings and explore the opportunities as well as challenges which they bring.
This online panel discussion features architect and Cambridge Paper author, Nigel Walter, Dr Dee Dyas (Director, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at the University of York), Bishop John Inge (author of A Christian Theology of Place) and Dr Anne Dawtry (Archdeacon of Halifax).
This was the online launch event for our Jubilee Centre report 'Money Can't Fix Everything: the impact of family relationships on poverty'. We were pleased to be joined by Dr Dr Heather Buckingham (the Trussell Trust), Ross Hendry (Spurgeons Childrens Charity), Matt Williams (the report author), Sian Wrangles (TLG - Transforming Lives for Good) and Frank Young (Centre for Social Justice).
Jonathan Tame outlines three positive outcomes from Thursday's election, and three important ways that Christians can respond.
Nanotechnology, cryonics, gene-editing, mind uploading. Such technologies—both real and imagined—offer a rising hope that humans might ‘defeat’ death. Can followers of Jesus, who already believe in life after death, find common ground with technological optimists? How can these contemporary trends challenge and sharpen an understanding of resurrection? And what hope might Christian theology offer in return?
Speakers: Dr Rodica Mocan (Associate Professor of Cinematography and Media, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) and Fr. Dragos Herescu (Principal of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge).
In this talk given at the Social Reformers Summer School, Margot Hodson (Director at the John Ray Initiative) unpacks different perspectives on environmental ethics and how Christians can engage well with them.
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In the Jubilee Centre's first Annual Lecture, David Nussbaum (CEO, the Elders, formerly CEO, WWF-UK) explores how we can eat together for the common good.
In this talk given at the Social Reformers Summer School 2019, Prabhu Guptara provides an introduction to Relationism and Relational analytics in the context of Christian social reform.
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By Hannah Eves, Katherine Martin and Andrew Phillips
In this presentation, given at the Social Reformers Summer School 2019, Hannah, Katherine and Andrew discuss their research on food, relationships and the environment from a biblical perspective.
Find our more about the research (including the book and podcast series) here
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In this talk from the Social Reformers Summer School 2019, Jonathan Tame unpacks the biblical foundations for social reform. He presents a biblical worldview for public engagement, articulates the importance of Biblical Law and offers some suggested principles for political economy.
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Discover more about biblical foundations for relational societies here
This is a time to lament. A third lockdown announced on Monday has brought another wave of uncertainty, stress and anxiety across a country that was just beginning to hope that ...
How do you think about accountability? Does the idea of being held to account reassure you or make you feel uncomfortable? I suspect most people will say the latter, and yet a ...
by Kevin Hargaden and David McIlroy This article was written following our November 2020 conference, 'Seeds of Change: Institutional reform and human flourishing post Covid-19'. ...
This article was written following our November 2020 conference, 'Seeds of Change: Institutional reform and human flourishing post Covid-19'. The Church has a long history of ...
This week the Jubilee Centre team explores David Olusoga’s article ‘The toppling of Edward Colston's statue is not an attack on history. It is history.’ Do statues in public places suggest veneration? How should we respond to difficult histories? And can we reimagine how we create and use statues of public figures?
David Olusoga’s article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/edward-colston-statue-history-slave-trader-bristol-protest
Recorded on Tuesday 9th June 2020
This week the Jubilee Centre team explores the Black Lives Matter protests, starting with Brandon Tensley’s article: ‘The protest pictures alone tell the story of America's racial hierarchy.’ We touch on antiracism, the American progress narrative and Britain’s colonial past. As ever, we ask, how can we think biblically about this? And what is the relationship between racism and sin?
Brandon Tensley’s article: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/29/politics/george-floyd-protests-american-racism/index.html
Recorded on Tuesday 2nd June 2020
This week the Jubilee Centre team unpacks Harriet Sherwood’s article ‘Bishops turn on Boris Johnson for defending Dominic Cummings.’ It’s a tale that involves drives to Durham, prime ministerial (non-)apologies and tweeting Bishops. But really, it’s a conversation about trust. As ever, we ask, how can we think biblically about this issue? And how should Christians lead in the public square?
Harriet Sherwood’s article: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/25/bishops-turn-on-boris-johnson-for-defending-dominic-cummings
Further articles:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/25/indignation-cowardly-bishops-cummings-bizarre/
Recorded on Wednesday 27th May 2020
This week the Jubilee Centre team unpacks Uscinski and Enders’s article ‘The Coronavirus Conspiracy Boom.’ It’s a conversation that explores conspiracy thinking – not just as something ‘other people’ do - but as an instinct in all of us. As ever, we ask how can think biblically about this issue? And what does it mean for Christians to be people of both faith and reason?
Joseph E. Uscinski and Adam M. Enders’s article: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/what-can-coronavirus-tell-us-about-conspiracy-theories/610894/
Further resources:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2020/april/christians-and-corona-conspiracies.html
https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/expert-guide-to-conspiracy-theories-83678
Recorded on Tuesday 12th May 2020 as part of our podcasts during lockdown series.
This week the Jubilee Centre team unpacks Freddie Sayers’s article ‘Which epidemiologist do you believe?’ It’s a conversation that explores how we frame the pandemic based on our understanding of the telos of society. As ever, we ask, how can we think biblically about this issue? Specifically, can 2 Samuel 24 offer us insight into leadership and disaster?
Freddie Sayers’s article: https://unherd.com/2020/04/which-epidemiologist-do-you-believe/
Recorded on Tuesday 28th April 2020 as part of our Podcasts during the Lockdown series
This week the Jubilee Centre team unpacks George Monbiot’s article ‘The horror films got it wrong. This virus has turned us into caring neighbours’. It’s a discussion that explores the limits of the state and the good instinct towards neighbourly action. As ever, we ask, how can we think biblically about these issues? And, specifically, what insight can we gain from a biblical view of human nature?
George Monbiot’s article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/31/virus-neighbours-covid-19
Recorded on Tuesday 21st April 2020 as part of our Podcasts during the Lockdown series
Free-will is fundamental to our sense of wellbeing, and underwrites our sense of morality, our judicial system and the Judeo-Christian faith.
However, science has provided evidence that free-will may be an illusion. Whilst we may not be as free as we like to think, we can still make decisions that determine our character, relationships and future.
This talk is based on Harvey McMahon's Cambridge Paper, available here.
Alongside the release of our new book, Thoughtful Eating: A biblical perspective on food, relationships and the environment, we've produced a four-part companion podcast series, 'Eating Thoughtfully'.
The podcast series features interviews with some of the leading Christian thinkers and activists on food and the environment, including Ruth Valerio (Director of Global Advocacy, Tearfund), Professor Norman Wirzba (author of 'Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating') and Caroline Pomeroy (Director, Climate Stewards). It was written and produced by the 2019 participants of the Jubilee Centre's SAGE Graduate Programme, Hannah Eves, Katherine Martin and Andrew Phillips.
The four episodes are available below. They're also available on Apple Podcast and Google Play, just search 'Jubilee Centre'.
Episode 1: Introduction
Episode 2: ‘To till and to tend’ with Caroline Pomeroy
Episode 3: ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ with Norman Wirzba
Episode 4: ‘Eating joyfully, relationally and sustainably with Ruth Valerio
Jonathan Tame unpacks the life of Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross. Dunant's story offers us many lessons for the work of Christian social reformers today.
A great number of Western Christians have laudably invested their time, money, and energy to confront the massive global challenge of religious persecution. Sadly, their effectiveness has too often been limited or undermined by several common mistakes.
This talk explores seven of these pitfalls and points to Christian principles that enable us to more effectively advance religious freedom for all.
Judd's goal in pointing out these dangers is not to condemn any particular organisation or tactical approach, but rather to commend a more considered, capacious, and constructive promotion of religious freedom.
This talk is based on Rodney Green's Cambridge Paper, available here.
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Thoughtful perspectives on today's social, political and economic challenges
Reconsidering our fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the world.
Making room for artists to challenge the way we see God and the world.
How do we strengthen the basic unit of society: the extended family?
Building relational economies for financial stability, economic justice and social cohesion.
How can relational churches thrive with a mission to transform their communities?
Reconsidering our fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the world.
Making room for artists to challenge the way we see God and the world.
How do we strengthen the basic unit of society: the extended family?
Building relational economies for financial stability, economic justice and social cohesion.
How can relational churches thrive with a mission to transform their communities?
Reconsidering our fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the world.
Making room for artists to challenge the way we see God and the world.
How do we strengthen the basic unit of society: the extended family?
Building relational economies for financial stability, economic justice and social cohesion.
How can relational churches thrive with a mission to transform their communities?
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