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Rowan Williams: Challenging us to Listen
Centre Director Canon Dr Angus Ritchie reflects on the news that Archbishop Rowan is standing down: Many people in the Church of England long for ‘stronger leadership’. On closer examination, this usually turns out to be ‘strong leadership in the … Continue reading
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Dawkins and Williams: No knockout, but a success!
The commentators are unusually united: yesteday’s debate between Archbishop Rowan and Richard Dawkins lacked a ‘knockout punch’. Among colleagues in Oxford, there was general agreement that no-one had a decisive victory. For all that, Dawkins was the only one who … Continue reading
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Tagged oxford university, richard dawkins, rowan williams
Secularism and Christianity: A Round-up of the Week
Few weeks pass by with such an intense succession of stories about the relationship between Christianity and the state, and about the (a)political role of Christian values and practice. Perhaps there is something to be said for new stories in … Continue reading
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Tagged giles fraser, richard dawkins, secularism, theos think tank
The Church and the Camp
Canon Dr Angus Ritchie, Director of the Contextual Theology Centre, has recently contributed to the ResPublica blog about the Occupy camp at St Paul’s. The post is one of a number of recent attempts by church leaders to engage seriously … Continue reading
London Looting: Some of the best contributions so far
A great deal has already been written on the recent outbreak of looting across London and in a few other cities. Here is a pick of some of the most thought-provoking and agenda-setting contributions so far: ‘The moral decay of … Continue reading
What the Archbishop really said
A miniature media storm has been whipped up this morning about comments made about the Coalition in a leader article in the New Statesman by Archbishop Rowan Williams. Having read the blog posts, tweets and commentary so far, you have … Continue reading
Alarmism over Islamism?
Over on Conservative Home, Luke de Pulford has offered an interesting contribution to the debate about revelations in the Jewish Chronicle concerning a London Citizen’s deputy chair making supportive remarks about Hamas. Luke writes: The Citizens UK solution is about … Continue reading
The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox
A new e-book has today been published representing some of the recent debate about the future of Labour. It reproduces papers and responses to them from four seminars held in Oxford in 2010-11. Contributors include CTC Fellow Maurice Glasman and … Continue reading
When Blue Labour Met the Fabians
As this blog has mentioned before, the Blue Labour movement is attracting more attention and, inevitably, closer examination. Tim Horton, Research Director at the Fabian Society, met with Maurice Glasman to debate the currently competing strands of thought in the … Continue reading
The Bible and Politics
Nick Spencer from public theology think-tank Theos has written a new book to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible entitled Freedom and Order: History Politics and the English Bible. It discusses the relationship over history between politics … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, multiculturalism, nick spencer, theos, tolerance
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