On Pooh, Piglet and Preaching
It’s time to rethink preaching.
Politics and Faith
The EU Referendum: Remain or Leave?
The EU is primarily a political and law-making community. So how might a Christian perspective on politics help? Two central questions are what political authority and law-making should be seeking, and who exercises such authority.
The EU Referendum: How Should We Decide?
Making Your Mind Up As with much of the wider population, many Christians remain unclear as to how they will vote in the June referendum on EU membership. Some are strongly committed to leave or to remain but most are probably still making their mind up. Sadly much of the campaign is focussed simply … Continue Reading
The Servant Queen and the Whole Earth: A Tribute to The Queen from a Republican
A tribute to the Queen’s service, and what we can learn from it, as she turns 90.
Should we bomb ISIS in Syria?
Ian Paul highlights seven areas “that need a good answer before we go to war again”
When can the state kill?: Questions and issues in the case of Reyaad Khan
It is vital that we recognise that this action and the justifications of it announced on Monday raise important moral and legal questions. If not critically assessed, they set potentially very serious precedents which we need to consider carefully
Five fresh questions about nuclear deterrence
I recently came across this joke about the nuclear deterrence debate: “it’s like a prehistoric bug trapped in amber: it had obviously been alive once, but it hadn’t moved in millions of years”. This characterisation was offered in 1987 (by Philip Bobbitt in Democracy and Deterrence). Nearly thirty years later, little appears to have changed. … Continue Reading
A Party without Soul: Why Labour Needs to Learn about Love and Sin
If any meaningful language and vision of change is to emerge within the Labour Party, it needs to develop a way of talking about love and sin.
Greece, Debt and Democracy: A Theological Reflection
Against the faux morality of finance capitalism, the potency of a story about a God who forgives debts can be heard afresh.
London Bombings – Warnings and Support [July 2005 Newsletter]
On the 10th anniversary of 7/7 we are republishing Graham Kings’ July 2005 reflections on the day written as the first Fulcrum newsletter when he was Vicar of St Mary’s. Islington