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  • 29 May 2007
    London seminar - Jesus' Family Values

    This Thursday (31 May) there is a unique chance to engage with Professor Deirdre Good about why the church may be overlooking Jesus and the Gospel message of inclusive community in its quest for 'fami

  • 29 May 2007
    Jesus' Family Values - Seminar

    You are invited to join

    Professor Deirdre Good in conversation about ‘Jesus’ Family Values’ and their challenge for the churches’ current stance.

  • 15 May 2007
    The theological legacy of the slave trade

    David Ford says that slavery is still very much alive, and that the systems and ideas that underpin it also challenge the church's deep collusion with racism - and its unwillingness to be grasped by the Gospel.

  • 18 Apr 2007
    The religion of nastiness

    The Archbishop of Canterbury suggests a patient Christian dialogue with scripture and each other. But Jeffrey John's critics lambasted his views on the Cross before they had even read them.

  • 18 Apr 2007
    Williams says the Bible invites listening not dogmatism

    Christians cannot make sense of their scriptures apart from a listening community, Dr Rowan Williams has said. In a lecture on biblical interpretation he argues that both dogmatic and dismissive approaches are flawed.

  • 20 Mar 2007
    Endism is nigh, texts are tricky

    Simon Barrow says that beyond the popular scriptural fantasising which feeds much religion on the internet, there are processes of scriptural reasoning which produce a dynamic, fruitful bond between the Bible to lived reality.

  • 20 Mar 2007
    How the Bible was used to justify slavery

    Giles Fraser reflects on John Newton’s painful conversion from uncritical theology

  • 16 Mar 2007
    A larger vision of 'family'

    Many commentators, both religious and secular, assume that a narrow definition of family is readily mandated by the biblical texts. They're wrong.

  • 12 Mar 2007
    Putting Genesis into reverse

    Colin Morris looks at how we are undoing the world process evoked in the biblical creation story

  • 24 Feb 2007
    Proclamation and social justice belong together, Latin American Christians told

    Many Christians recognise that the development of the Gospel has implied taking responsibility for other human beings and human rights, says the general secretary of the Latin American Council of Churches.