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  • 27 Aug 2010
    Challenging the culture of violence

    The scent of violence in everyday life, in culture and in the news has become endemic in the Philippines, says Shay Cullen. But there is hope where different values and practices are initiated, and where human transformation can challenge the roots of impunity and injustice.

  • 26 Aug 2010
    Israel's security: beyond the zero-sum

    The prospects for progress in the direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in Washington look meagre, says Paul Rogers. But breakthrough is essential if Israel is to be saved from itself.

  • 26 Aug 2010
    Choices over 'chosenness'

    “Being chosen,” as in the case of biblical or modern Israel, is still a grand theological theme inhabiting discourse in America, says Martin E. Marty. The concept is hotly disputed. And it is especially troubling when it becomes a matter of credal orthodoxy.

  • 18 Aug 2010
    A cycle of loss and destruction in Pakistan

    In the five years since the 2005 earthquake devastated parts of Pakistan, not one year has gone by in which the people of Pakistan have not suffered from disaster, says Church World Service staff working in the country.

  • 17 Aug 2010
    Building a culture of peace in Jamaica

    The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) in the Jamaican capital Kingston in May 2011 will be a testimony of solidarity for the culture of peace that churches are trying to build on the island, reports Jane Stranz.

  • 13 Aug 2010
    Cordova House and Mosque at Ground Zero

    The building of Cordova House and Mosque near Ground Zero in New York, where many lost their lives on 9/11, has become a subject of heated debate. Michael Kinnamon, who heads up the National Council of Churches USA, cuts through the controversy to make a directly Christian appeal for neighbourly love.

  • 10 Aug 2010
    Beyond incarceration and re-offending

    Prison is not working. Helping former offenders into jobs and effectively supervising people on community sentences is a key part of the answer, says Anton Shelupanov. To do this, the UK criminal justice system must embrace innovation as a necessity, not as a desirable extra.

  • 08 Aug 2010
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki: active remembrance

    Sixty-five years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, says Olav Fykse Tveit, more and more people are working to rekindle the vision of a world without nuclear weapons.

  • 02 Aug 2010
    Losing paradise: climate change in Fiji

    Climate change is transforming the lives of people on Viwa Island off the coast of Suva, Fiji, writes Mark Beach. What appears to the outsider to be paradise on earth is an object lesson in how global warming threatens the vulnerable most of all.

  • 02 Aug 2010
    Face-to-face with global hunger

    There are a billion hungry people in the world today, most of them in Asia, says Shay Cullen. Tackling hunger is both an issue of justice and a challenge to faith.