The New Atheists did not manage to dent the growth of religion across the world. Instead, they only fed our interest in it. by Madeleine Bunting first published on Guardian, Comment is Free Belief, 4 April 2010, re-published with permission One shelf of my bookcase is now groaning under the weight of its contents. It’s the … Continue Reading
A Review of Rediscovering Values: A Moral Compass for the New Economy by Jim Wallis By John Watson This article was intended to be book review of the recent publication by Jim Wallis Rediscovering Values: A Moral Compass for a New Economy and in one sense it still is. The issue of social transformation or … Continue Reading
Mandela Beyond Imagining by Graham Kings Before nineteen eighty six, theology in the Reformed Church was mistakenly myth-taken, double Dutch and in a State. People on whom God had set his stamp were stamped upon; That which God had joined together, man put asunder. Then came pressure from the Spirit through the Word, through the … Continue Reading
A past decade that leaves us guessing for the future By Elaine Storkey, Chair of Fulcrum Smart social theorists used to be good at forecasting future trends. They could be relied upon for recognizing the likely impact of demographic changes, shifts in values and lifestyle, technology and communication. When everyone else was living in an … Continue Reading
Sudan at the Crossroads Fulcrum Newsletter, December 2009 co-published, with permission, with Comment is free belief, The Guardian online 10 December 2009 by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne History leapt to life for me a couple of weeks ago, while I was sitting under a tree in Rumbek, Southern Sudan. I was reading about the … Continue Reading
In the last few weeks, attention has been drawn to new legislation proposed in Uganda in the form of “The Anti-Homosexuality Bill”. It proposes extreme measures supposedly to “establish a comprehensive consolidated legislation to protect the traditional family” and “aims at strengthening the nation’s capacity to deal with emerging internal and external threats to the … 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