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Who will be the next Green Party leader?
Following the recent news that Caroline Lucas has decided not to stand for a third term as leader of the Green Party, I feel I ought to comment on the whole thing. Before diving into the question of...
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Why I’m (probably) Backing Peter Cranie
As I mentioned before, the Green Party are currently electing a new leader. Since my last post on the matter, the list of candidates has been announced. Whilst I’m open to persuasion from the booklet...
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Green Party Deputy Leader
Well, following on from my post on who I’m backing for Green Party leader, here’s the post on the Deputy Leadership contest. Apologies for the gap, but I did need more time to weigh up the candidates,...
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Sexuality, Equality, and Freedom of Religion
There’s been some controversy recently about a vote taken on Brighton and Hove council back in July on the issue of same-sex marriage. A Christian councillor by the name of Christina Summers spoke and...
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St Nicholas
It’s St Nicholas’ Day today, and since Santa Claus (the god-figure of secular Christmases everywhere) takes his name from the saint in question, I thought I’d share this Santa-related video. H/T Justin...
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Hospital Chaplaincies
One of the things about having this blog is that I seem to have become the go-to person when anybody is looking for Christians within the Green Party. The most recent example of this is somebody who...
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Creation and Politics
With this post, I am now resuming the series critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. In case you’ve forgotten in the gap between posts, the book so far outlines a religious...
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February round-up
Here are a few interesting things I’ve spotted recently. The ever-insightful Paul Gillan of God and Politics UK has a piece on the impact of church social action projects Those of us fascinated by...
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Have we filled the Earth?
This is the next in our series critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics according to the Bible. Today we’re looking at the second part of the chapter on the Environment, where Grudem does a stock-take...
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March round-up
Here are a few interesting things I’ve spotted this month. Gillan at God and Politics UK has a couple of very good pieces about the character of politicians and conducting debate Make Wealth History...
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June round-up
After a couple of months where real life has been rather busy (including doing some very successful full-time electioneering back in May), I’m now back on the blog. So here are some things I spotted in...
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How much energy is out there?
This is the latest in a series of posts critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. Today, we’re in the middle of the chapter on the Environment, looking at what he says about...
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Climate Change: The Evidence
This is the latest in a series of posts critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. Today, we’re in the middle of the chapter on the Environment, looking at what he says about...
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Climate Change: The Politics and Theology
This is the latest in a series of posts critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. Today, we’re finishing up the chapter on the Environment, looking at what he says about climate...
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Is War Ever Justified?
This is the latest in a series of posts critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. Today we’re looking at the start of chapter 11, which deals with Defence Policy. Grudem begins...
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Defence Policy
This is the latest in a series of posts critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. On Tuesday, we started the chapter on Defence policy, looking at the question of whether...
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Terrorism and Torture
This is the latest in our series critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. Today we’re looking at part of the chapter on Defence policy, specifically looking at what he says about...
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July Round-Up
Here are some interesting things I’ve spotted over the last month. Despite growing up in the Church of England, I never really understood their theology of baptism. Anthony Smith has explained it in a...
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Were Afghanistan and Iraq “Just Wars”?
This is the latest in our series critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. Today we’re finishing up the chapter on Defence policy, covering his arguments that the wars in Iraq and...
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What does the Bible say about foreign policy?
This is the latest in our series critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. So far we’ve looked at the first eleven chapters. Today, we begin the chapter on foreign policy, looking...
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