Jonathan Tame has been the director of the Jubilee Centre since January 2012, after working for two years with Jubilee Centre’s sister organisation Relational Research. Before that, he spent 11 years in Romania and 8 in Switzerland with Youth With A Mission. He holds a masters degree in agricultural economics, his wife Helene is a community chaplain, and they have five children.
Like housing, social welfare provision is not just a financial problem; there are social and relational aspects to consider too.
Jesus is suggesting a deep and wide vision for how to change the world: individually and corporately, in the home and the workplace.
There are three great benefits of art, which every Christian should embrace: beauty, truth and imagination.
Our churches should be examples of institutions that serve the common good, that speak out against injustice, and that are led with integrity.
National greatness in God’s eyes is outward focused, and rather than being the object of God’s blessing, any material prosperity was to be seen as an outworking of their obedience to God’s ways.
The danger of deciding on the basis of narrow personal or national self-interest is to overlook a whole range of possible consequences to the other parties in this set of relationships – which could then rebound on us.
Whatever happens in June, Britain will still be part of Europe; we are not voting for the English Channel to become an ocean.