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The dark side of chocolate

Chocolate companies use high quality ingredients including coercion, force, exploitation and violence to make annual profits of over $10 billion in the USA alone.

God’s perspective on the economy is different from ours

One budget doesn’t make a whole economy and God’s perspective of how the economy should run is very different from our perspective.

What about the Christians who don't go to church?

According to an ongoing BBC/Open University survey, 57 per cent would return to church if they could. So what have they to say to us all?

Abortion figures and access to the truth

No-one would deny that abortion is an emotive issue, whichever side of the debate we may be on. But there is a key principle at stake here.

Whole gospel, whole church, whole world

Taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, in obedience to the Great Commission, is an inescapable imperative.

Praise in the midst of pain

Four months after the attacks on Christians in Gojra and Korian, the pain and sense of injustice over those horrific attacks are still etched on the faces of the Christians who live there.

O Britannia!

It’s one thing for the British government to eradicate every vestige of Christianity on the Scepter’d Isle. It’s another for it to demand that its territories do so as well.

Redefining Justice

By renewing civic society, we might well expect to find crime being dealt with more effectively.

Islam: A war within itself

Recent months have seen a number of unexpected and extremely encouraging statements coming out of the Muslim world.

Will you stand in the gap?

The Lord is looking for those who will lay down their own agendas and pick up His.

Is capitalism morally bankrupt?

Jubilee Centre founder Michael Schluter offers five moral flaws of capitalism and their social consequences.

Mission together: ‘customer driven and project led’

It is fantastic what churches can do when they work together.

A consumer revolution - the new rules

Consumers no longer want to be simply consumers; they want to be given the opportunity to become activists.

A far cry from justice

Pakistani police are investigating Christians over the Gojra violence, rather than the very Muslims suspected of carrying out the horrific attacks.

How to be churches together in mission: ‘Customer driven’

I suppose we will be back to normal in September.

Fight the corruption that compounds poverty

Corruption and poverty mutually reinforce injustice whilst undermining equitable economic growth and sustainable development.