People must come first: there are many ways of being Conservative Fulcrum Newsletter, September 2009 By Dr Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne Co-published, with permission, with Comment is free belief, Guardian online, 11 September 2009 By plotting a graph of the expansion of the monasteries throughout the Middle Ages we might easily have concluded that … Continue Reading
The Church of England and Islam: Hospitality and Embassy – Theologies of Religion in Process 2. Lambeth 1988 and 1998 By Richard Sudworth Part II of IV (see part I, III,IV) It is with the Lambeth Conference of 1988 that a more systematic attempt was made to order Anglican interfaith relations and to provide a … Continue Reading
The Church of England and Islam: Hospitality and Embassy – Theologies of Religion in Process 1. Pre-Lambeth 1988 by Richard Sudworth Part I of IV (see parts II, III, IV) On October 13th 2007, an unprecedented range of Muslim scholars and leaders issued the document A Common Word between Us and You1 to representatives of … Continue Reading
Christology, Messianism and Jewish-Christian relations by Tim Dean For Christians down the ages, the foundational Christological idea that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah has determined the Church’s attitudes to Judaism and Jews. Jewish expectation of the coming of the Messiah proceeds unabated since the birth of Christianity. In Jewish prayer books and recited regularly … Continue Reading
Fulcrum and the Barnabas Fund Letter to the Church of England Newspaper, 20 March 2009 from Elaine Storkey, Graham Kings and Simon Cawdell on behalf of the Fulcrum Leadership Team Sir, We wish to correct a misleading impression in the letter from Mark Green, Deputy Director of the Barnabas Fund, (CEN 13 March 2009). He … Continue Reading
Church of England Inter-Faith Relations: a Response to Melanie Phillips’s article in The Spectator by Guy Wilkinson National Inter-Faith Relations Adviser and Secretary for Inter-Faith Relations to the Archbishop of Canterbury copublished with the Spectator, 18 March 2009 We have seen in recent days in Northern Ireland just how deep antagonisms go and how long … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Statement on Concerns raised by the Book Review of ‘Global Jihad’ and Responses In the last few days a number of people have expressed concern to Fulcrum Leadership Team members about Fulcrum’s alleged treatment of Patrick Sookhdeo. It would appear that much of this concern has been caused by allegations in an anonymous article … Continue Reading
Response to David Zeidan and Tawfik Hamid by Ben White Ben White wrote a Fulcrum Review of Patrick Sookhdeo’s book ‘Global Jihad’ and Fulcrum published a Barnabas Fund response to that review by David Zeidan and Tawfik Hamid A. David Zeidan’s Response published on Fulcrum First of all, I would like to thank David for … Continue Reading
Barnabas Fund Response to Ben White’s Book Review of Patrick Sookhdeo, Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam, (McLean, VA, USA: Isaac Publishing, 2007) by David Zeidan and Tawfik Hamid 1.David Zeidan Introduction Ben White’s review of Patrick Sookhdeo’s Global Jihad, published on the Fulcrum website, is a robust critique of the author’s stance on the issues addressed in the book. … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Book Review of Patrick Sookhdeo, Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam VA, USA: Isaac Publishing, 2007 by Ben White Since September 11 2001, there has been a huge growth in the number of books that seek, in different ways, to explain and analyse the phenomenon of high-profile violent attacks by … Continue Reading