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.
Knowing to whom we are accountable lies at the heart of integrity. Is it self, public opinion or God? We must distinguish self-referential integrity from a Christian understanding of integrity that is accountable to Christ. Integrity faces counter-currents and riptides capable of causing our scattered self to drift, sometimes to drown.
We will describe examples of these undercurrents to warn of their force; they are not always easy to discern and continually change direction and intensity to sweep us off our feet. We will also examine some of the flawed solutions that we fondly hope will be adequate to protect our integrity, but turn out to be a wholly inadequate selective moralism.
Finally, we will attempt to define the key ingredients of Christian integrity in terms of moral accountability, relational consistency and personal discipline.
This talk is based on Rodney Green's Cambridge Paper, available here.
Risk has become a central concept in modern life. We increasingly structure life around attempting to manage an uncertain future, in which more knowledge simultaneously provides safety and increases our awareness of what we do not know.
We make ‘risk decisions’ every day about our money, cycling to work, what we include in our diet. We have an overwhelming and sometimes apparently contradictory volume of knowledge at our disposal that may aid, but can obfuscate, our decisions.
However, whilst the risk society is a secular phenomenon, it provides an opportunity for Christians to live distinctively and attractively.
This talk is based on Amy Donovan's Cambridge Paper, available here.
Michael Schluter talks about the biblical foundations for social reform and the agenda for public life.
Part 1:
In the first of two talks by Michael Schluter given at the Jubilee Centre's Social Reformers Summer School, which took place in Cambridge in July 2016. The title was 'Biblical foundations for social reform', and he introduced the biblical basis for the work of the Jubilee Centre, and the various organisation which have emerged from it.
Part 2:
The second of two talks by Jubilee Centre's founder Michael Schluter, given at the Social Reformers Summer School, which took place in Cambridge in July 2016. In this talk he explains the relational approach to public policy which has been developed by the Jubilee Centre and the organisations which it launched, such as Relationships Foundation and the Relational Thinking Network.
Michael Schluter starts the 2010 series of three London Lectures by 'Thinking Relationally about Everything'.
From our 2011 Big Society and the Church conference, Dr Guy Brandon, Senior Researcher at Jubilee Centre and author of our report 'The Big Society in Context: A means to what end?' brings lessons from biblical Israel for our complex society.
Jurisprudence professor Julian Rivers persuasively argues that postmodern values are in danger of subverting our understanding of human dignity.
This is creating a 'Trojan horse' which insinuates a deceptive ideology into public life as the basis of human rights.
This talk by Michael Schluter was recorded at the Singapore consultation: Towards Jubilee 2015.
