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  • 12 Oct 2008
    Economic greed is a spiritual crisis

    The current global financial crisis is a spiritual one with usury at its heart, argues political economist Ann Pettifor. In spite of the Gospel message, Christians have also colluded in idolising wealth above people and planet.

  • 26 Sep 2008
    The church and alternative economics

    When Ekklesia pointed out that the Church of England appears to be involved in the dodgy market dealing it rhetorically condemns, the main point of our argument was that the churches have a golden opportunity to invest in something much more exciting.

  • 25 Sep 2008
    Alternatives to Capitalism, Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2, 25 September 2008
  • 21 Jul 2008
    The mortgage collapse and the poor

    The threatened mortgage guarantee market in the US betokens an economic crisis, says Philip Blond. But the real tragedy - often overlooked - is the betrayal of Fannie Mae's original mission to house the poor.

  • 10 Feb 2008
    Turning economics upside-down

    What would happen if just a small proportion of the £1.25 trillion in consumer debt we all owe on was defaulted upon or suddenly called in? Jonathan Bartley looks at economic revolutions, and revolutionizing economics from the standpoint of the Gospel.

  • 1 Feb 2008
    Challenging the neo-liberal paradigm

    In a provocative short article in the International Herald Tribune newspaper, Phillip Blond argues that the dominant neo-liberal model of global economy is in crisis, and that both the political right and the political left have failed to understand the nature of the challenge this embodies.

  • 19 Jan 2008
    Between Northern Rock and a hard place

    The current fluster over how to solve the crisis at Northern Rock indicates the degree of economic fetishism surrounding privatisation and nationalisation.

  • 17 Jan 2008
    Methodists launch 'buy less' credit card for Lent

    In a move that is designed as a challenge to "consumerism as usual" and a reminder of the dominance of money in our lives, the Methodist Church in Britain has launched an alternative Credit Card containing a "buy less" message.

  • 3 Dec 2007
    Latin American and Caribbean faiths meet banks to talk anti-poverty action

    Interfaith leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean have met with officials from three major global multilateral financial bodies to discuss ways of advancing the struggle for the MDGs and against poverty and inequality.

  • 24 Oct 2007
    Neoliberal globalisation is the new slavery, say Reformed churches

    Leaders of the world's biggest grouping of Reformed churches have compared the effects of neoliberal economic globalisation to the transatlantic slave trade, and said that Christians need to combat this modern form of "enslavement".