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  • 1 Dec 2011
    Salvation in Christianity and Islam

    What are the different accounts of salvation given in Christian and Muslim thinking? What is involved in forgiveness? What do Christians mean when they speak of atonement through Christ?

  • 17 Oct 2010
    A radical rescue operation

    Christianity is essentially a radical rescue operation, rather than a bourgeois message of moral self-improvement, says Giles Fraser. To live out a Christian life and to develop life-enhancing ethics, we need solidarity and help from beyond ourselves.

  • 26 Mar 2009
    Watchmen, sin and salvation

    The film Watchmen directly asks what no other superhero movie has ever had the courage or audacity to posit, says Kevin Boyd. Is society actually worth saving?

  • 3 Mar 2008
    Fairness, trade and free market ideology

    Free market ideologues have used Fairtrade Fortnight to attack what they regard as counter-productive do-gooding, says Simon Barrow. But what does freedom mean in economic terms, and is fairness something to be left wholly to markets?

  • 16 Jan 2008
    Evangelical Christians and Muslims meet for historic dialogue

    The second meeting of an Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue took place in Tripoli last week, and is seen by participants as an important step forward in understanding between two faith traditions that have often been at loggerheads.

  • 9 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.

  • 11 Mar 2007
    Flinging Jesus at David Cameron

    A Scottish Christian group has contrived a novel way of asking whether the new Tory leader is for real.