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  • 16 Nov 2012
    The politics (and theology) of apology

    Theologian Tryon Edwards has suggested right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. In that sense, says Jonathan Bartley, true apologies are yet to be forthcoming in many areas of public life today.

  • 22 Feb 2012
    Repentance required for climate change 'shrug culture' say church leaders

    Church leaders from some of the UK's biggest churches have made a call for 'repentance' over a prevailing 'shrug-culture' towards climate change.

  • 28 Apr 2011
    US Methodists express repentance for massacre of Native Americans

    The United Methodist Church is making good on a pledge to support a learning centre at the Western site of an 1864 massacre of Native Americans.

  • 10 Jul 2009
    Penitent homophobes

    Twelve years ago, I raised my hand in a church meeting to give my approval to a vote opposing the ordination of “practising homosexuals” as ministers.

  • 21 Feb 2008
    Lent and the Iraq war

    For the next four weeks, the US God's Politics group blog will be featuring posts from a variety of voices on Iraq: Iraqis, US veterans and parents, Christians from other countries, pastors, and peacemakers.

  • 9 Mar 2007
    Remembrance is not enough

    As the bicentenary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade approaches Jonathan Bartley says we are enslaved until Africa is free