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Just Society

How should we live together in a way which honours human beings created in the image and likeness of God, endowed with dignity and freedom? Thinking about society, covering topics related to politics, business and the economy, law and justice.

Misleading Rights-Talk

Postmodernism has lent a voice to humiliated and marginalized groups but in its more extreme manifestations it mocks notions of objective knowledge and moral truths that transcend culture and context.
Vinoth Ramachandra
Jan 25, 2022
5
min read

Loss of Trust and Disinformation

Regaining trust in the midst of disinformation is one of the main challenges journalists are facing everywhere.
Jun 23, 2021
2
min read

The Time is Ripe to Re-Think Citizenship

Christians are used to thinking of themselves as citizens of heaven, but have we thought enough about what it means to be a citizen in a particular place on earth?
Mar 29, 2021
4
min read

Politics of Worship - Waiting for the King

There is always light. The good news is that we don’t need to be brave enough to be anything other than a reflection of the light of the King whose glory will fill the universe!
Tim Vickers
Jan 22, 2021
4
min read

Is Honesty ‘the Best Policy’?

We may still believe honesty to be ‘the best policy’, but who’s honesty is it? Is it honesty expedient to our own desired outcomes? This article is part 1 of a mini-series on integrity.
Rodica Rosior
Jan 18, 2021
3
min read

Better late than never? A call for civil discourse in response to the riots at Capitol Hill

Disinformative speech, and worse, is rampant but platforms unilaterally banning speech won’t solve the problem. What's needed is a renewed commitment to civil discourse.
Trisha Meyer
Jan 14, 2021
3
min read

The grand-daddy of all conspiracy theories

Just when we thought 2020 couldn’t possibly get any worse, up pops Pat Robertson on his daily TV show, The 700 Club, to tell us what God has exclusively revealed to him...
Iwan Russell Jones
Oct 30, 2020
8
min read

Jesus, Race, and the Foundation of Inherent Dignity for All

The imperative behind the recognition of the worth of black lives isn’t beholden to the news agenda. The force behind the statement is to be found in the very nature of God.
Damilola Makinde
Aug 5, 2020
6
min read

Who Will Learn from Covid-19?

Will the Covid-19 crisis spell a return to “business as usual” on the part of politicians, bankers and economic “expert"’ or will it lead to change in the world's economic and financial systems?
Vinoth Ramachandra
May 22, 2020
6
min read

Interview Sir Jeremy Cooke

Jeremy Cooke on Cross-Current Law & Justice. Interviewed during the annual Cross-Current Professional Groups Conference in Berlin, November 2019.
Sir Jeremy Cooke
Jun 3, 2020
15
min read

Will the People and the Nation Save Us?

The nation and the people cannot save us. It is only in Jesus that we will be able to draw the resources to be ourselves at the service of the common good.
Christel Ngnambi
Jan 27, 2020
3
min read

Broken Trust Threatens Our Lives and Cultures

Behind the rise of populism and polarisation in Western politics and societies, experts agree that its roots are to be found in a major crisis of trust.
Christel Ngnambi
Nov 29, 2019
3
min read

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” is an important work: a landmark describing the massive, shadowy forces that are driving much of the Digital Revolution in the West.
Jonathan Ebsworth
Jan 29, 2020
11
min read

The Dangers of Radicalised Identity

When diverging opinion turns into fistfights, fire and fury, is it a sign that we have gone too far? What can Christians offer to better deal with differences and diversity?
Christel Ngnambi
Mar 20, 2019
7
min read

Trust is Like the Air We Breathe

As Warren Buffett the American investor once said: “Trust is like the air we breathe - when it’s present nobody really notices; when it’s absent everybody notices.”
Tim Vickers
Jun 20, 2019
3
min read

Trust is Like a Muscle

Trust is like a muscle - the more we exercise it the stronger it gets!
Tim Vickers
May 21, 2019
3
min read
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