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  • 15 May 2007
    Flirting with corruption at the World Bank

    Peter Heslam argues that the corruption row surrounding World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz taps into wider issues about money and development. Both the Bank and its critics have much to learn, he says.

  • 12 May 2007
    Assessing Blair's legacy on international development

    As Tony Blair prepares to step down as British PM, the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) offers an assessment and balance sheet of the impact of his policies on international development.

  • 11 May 2007
    Following the churches’ money trail

    Where your money goes, there goes your heart, says Giles Fraser. And it can be very revealing, too, especially when it comes to the sharing of resources among churches.

  • 09 May 2007
    Travelling towards an open heaven

    Savi Hensman says that behind the church rows about sex and sensibility lies an ongoing drama over salvation.

  • 27 Apr 2007
    Giving nonviolence a real chance

    The quiet demise of mass nonviolent protests in Iraq is rarely mentioned by the media or analysts, says Tim Nafziger. How different could things have been if nonviolent demonstrations by Iraqis had been widely covered and taken seriously?

  • 27 Apr 2007
    Changes in family life need not threaten Christians

    Deirdre Good says that reflecting on Jesus' family values can help Christians understand a changing world where being single will be normal for longer periods of time and where more single women are heads of households.

  • 23 Apr 2007
    Slaying the dragons of religious and racial intolerance

    Saint George needs to be reclaimed from the Crusaders for a world where healing is needed in place of conflict, says Giles Fraser.

  • 19 Apr 2007
    Arms trading is Britain's new slave trade

    Symon Hill urges Christians and others to recognize Britain’s arms sales as the moral and political equivalent of the slave trade, to work for their abolition and to pressurise BAE.

  • 18 Apr 2007
    No more 'war on terror'?

    Hilary Benn wants to end the nomenclature of a 'war on terror', but he does not seem to have abandoned the 'clash of civilizations' or proposed any real alternative, writes Michael Marten.

  • 18 Apr 2007
    Sacrifices at the altar of the gun

    The latest US shooting atrocity, at Virginia Tech University, is another tragic embodiment of American worship of the gun, says Tim Nafziger.