Jubilee Centre explores a wide range of social, economic and political issues, offering a positive response to the challenges faced by individuals, communities and policy makers in the twenty-first century from a distinctively faith-based perspective
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- 1983
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- Cambridge Papers Open Day
Eden Baptist Church
04 May at 10:00
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- People prefer not to work on Sunday 07 September 16:00
- The Kindest Thing 02 September 16:00|3 comments
- £23,000 student debt a ‘millstone’? 17 August 16:00
Jubilee Centre is quoted in today's Telegraph, alongside Tesco, Asda and Morrisons: http://is.gd/4OKfG
An independent study published today by Victims’ Champion Sara Payne calls on the government to 'redefine' justice to give greater priority to victims of crime. The mother of Sarah Payne, who was murdered by a paedophile in 2000, writes, 'The most compelling theme throughout my time as Vict...
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Lately I have noticed an increasing and worrying trend for pre-teens to be using adult social networking sites such as Facebook. When I have asked parents whether they are aware that Facebook has a minimum age policy among its terms and conditions ('4.3 You will not use Facebook if you are u...
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You are warmly invited to attend the inaugural lecture in Bristol by Cambridge Papers author Professor Julian Rivers on the place of religion in English law. ...
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Until 2007, the Government published an annual report, Opportunity for All, that charted progress on a range of indicators that affect young people's life chances. These included many of the risk factors that are known to be associated with childhood deprivation: ...
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The greatest commandment is to think relationally: “Love God. Love your neighbour.” In this compelling and liberating book, Mark Greene reveals its extraordinarily practical implications for every area of life, showing how putting relationships first in our thinkin...
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Europe is today a significant step closer than it was 24 hours ago to the Lisbon Treaty (aka the European Constitution) becoming law, a treaty that will create a European President and Foreign Minister (more technically, 'President of the European Council' and 'High Representative ...
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Following on from the success of Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living, Professor Whit...
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Professor Robin Alexander, head of the Cambridge Primary Review says the current system of primary education is 'squeezing the curriculum' and suggests we need to ask whether formal schooling should start later. Of course, with the ...
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Not many people have read books on the Trinity or theodicy (that is, the attempt to justify God in view of the apparent problem of evil), but millions have read William Young’s The Shack. Many readers can’t stop raving about the book, while others accuse the author of heresy. Wh...
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'There's something of the divine in the way we respond to stories and how we're created as people – that we're so driven by relationship that even when we know we're just looking at a bunch of drawings, we still connect emotionally. In making these worlds I feel closer to God through workin...
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Jubilee Centre Here's another wordle for your interest / entertainment, constructed from our general election guide, Votewise Now!
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Thought I'd create a couple of wordles from our most recent couple of reports! http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=J
Asserting that ‘Marriage is as important as the economy to the nation’s overall health,’ the Jubilee Centre has conducted an analysis of a range of fundamental measures to generate a single figure that reveals the overall health of marriage in the country. ...
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Less than three weeks since a nobel Prize-winning economist urged world leaders to '...
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Earlier this month it was reported that a teenager, who was adopted by her paternal grandmother at the age of three and who has lived in Florida since her adoptive mother married an American in 2000, was facing possible deportation to England for refusing a vaccination that protects against the s...
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Corporate Capitalism has had a devastating impact on families and communities and has been responsible for the excessive growth of giant corporations and over-centralisation of state power, claims the first of two new Cambridge Papers by Jubilee Centre founder Michael Schluter...
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Many Christians accept Capitalism as broadly in line with biblical teaching. Its economic success appears to vindicate attribution of its origins to Christian theology. This confidence in Capitalism as the best available economic system has meant that Christians have failed to recognise that it i...
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England’s topsoil is at risk. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn – no doubt soon to be dubbed the government’s ‘mud tsar’ – today warned that population growth, housing and transport are all threatening the health of our soil. Intensive farming, pollution and er...
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Examining current issues pertaining to sexuality and society, pastor and politics professor Dale Kuehne asks, 'What kind of world are we creating? And is it the world we want to live in?' With no finger-pointing, and a cordial openness to resp...
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A good friend now goes by her partner's surname on Facebook and, although they are unmarried, uses the title of Mrs, which made even her sister wonder whether she had missed something. Another acquaintance is having a party to celebrate their tenth anniversary, although they have only been cohabi...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has urged world leaders to drop their obsession with examining gross domestic product and to focus more on broader measures of prosperity. Co-author of a report commissioned by French President Nicolas Sarkozy being presented in Paris today, Stiglitz ...
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When I heard that London Midland had cancelled almost all of its services on Sunday because insufficient staff volunteered to work on the Sunday, I was greatly encouraged. More proof that people really want to spend time with their families on Sunday: my colleagues on the
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'Euthanasia is always a last resort and it's not a decision taken lightly, but sometimes it's the kindest thing. We did give him an anaesthetic and then we gave him an injection so he didn't recover from the anaesthesia; but if we hadn't done that, he would have died by himself and in doing it th...
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'Euthanasia is always a last resort and it's not a decision taken lightly, but sometimes it's the kindest thing...
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See how many questions you can get right - and where to find the answers before the next election. All Christians are on different places on the Political spectrum. Vote Wise will not tell you how to vote, just help you vote according to your conscience. ...
Figures released today by Push suggest that the average student beginning a degree today could expect to graduate with £23,000 of debt, rising to over £30,000 for some London students. For most people, this is a significant amount of money and represents a real concern, particularly at a time whe...
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A children's charity has today confirmed the worrying extent to which 11-18 year-olds use digital technologies for sexual purposes. You may recall that this is something we warned of a couple of months ago, following our seminar on the
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A former porn star (or glamour model, depending on where you read your news) has received a 10-month suspended sentence after admitting four counts of bigamy. Somewhat bizarrely, she is now living in the home of her new boyfriend’s parents. The life of her fifth ‘husband’,...
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Last week it was reported that 11-year-old Aston Padley, a committed Christian, has been turned down for a place at Wrexham\'s faith school, St Joseph\'s Catholic and Anglican School, because she is not an Anglican or Catholic, though the school\'s admissions policy clearly states that places are...
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Speaking after news of the assisted suicides of conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Lady Joan last Friday at the Swiss Dignitas clinic, Sir Edward’s manager and long-term friend, Jonathon Groves, opined, ‘It was very typical of the way he lived his life. I do not think there is a...
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