The day to day challenge of changing culture
Matt Hatch
Monday 28 Feb 2011
What does changing culture mean for me first thing on a Monday morning? How should that impact the way we lead our churches? How can mums change culture? How do we release everybody into everyday mission and discipleship?
Lord Shaftesbury: The Great Reformer
Jennie Pollock
Tuesday 15 Feb 2011
Anthony Ashley Cooper was a man who understood what it meant to be Salt and Light in society. The son of a wealthy landowner in an age when Britain’s fortunes were built on the broken backs of the poor, he disappointed his father, was derided by his contemporaries and deprived himself and his family of many of life’s luxuries in his lifelong campaign for social justice.
Fusion: Training parents to strengthen families
Katy Phillips
Friday 11 Feb 2011
In 2004, two women began running parenting courses in a school in a deprived area of Dorset. At that time, neither of them could have envisaged the journey they had begun…
Christ and Cuts: The Church in ‘Austerity Britain’
Chris Le Marquand
Tuesday 8 Feb 2011
The spending review announced by the Coalition Government in October will be remembered as one of the biggest political events of our generation. In the months and years to come families and individuals could see their incomes reduced, and the public services they have come to rely on scaled back or closed altogether. Public sector job losses and changes to benefits could mean that some families face substantial hardship.
Stanley Fish and the Socio-Political Avatar
Andrew Wilson
Wednesday 26 Jan 2011
If the modern, secular liberal state had a Bible, it might be the opinion section of the New York Times. And if it had a high priest, candidates would certainly include Stanley Fish, the distinguished literary theorist, law professor and author of Is There a Text in This Class?
God, Guinness and the Avant-Garde
Paul Norridge
Wednesday 26 Jan 2011
In 1825 the splendidly named Olinde Rodrigues wrote an essay, which introduced the term avant-garde to the world. We normally associate the avant-garde with art, but Rodrigues had something far bigger in mind...
Tell it in colour
Judith Hill
Monday 17 Jan 2011
Stories of war: they’ve been our heritage in Northern Ireland. They’ve shaped our collective conscience. And these stories needed to be told.
The Child Soldier Cycle
Peter Smart
Thursday 16 Dec 2010
I've often heard it said that faith should inform artistic work, but in my experience the way in which this can be done often proves elusive. However, I recently completed a university project which changed my thinking. My topic: Child Soldiers.
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