There is a lot said and written about protecting the environment. However, very little of it addresses the vitally important issue of why we should care. Whilst arguments like the phenomenal cost of not taking action to prevent climate change are important to bring up in public policy debates, they aren’t very effective at changing [...]
Peter Mandelson’s suggestion this week of cutting off internet access to filesharers has got me thinking. I’ve not been thinking about the ethics of illegal filesharing (it’s morally equivalent to taping songs off the radio), its impact on the music industry (good for obscure artists, bad for the big labels), or the futility of trying [...]
Having said in my last post that there is no party that entirely reflects Christian values, that raises the question of why I chose to join the Green Party. The answer lies not in policies, which change over time, but in values, which tend to be stable for much longer. Of the six national parties [...]
Although faith and politics should not be separated, Christians need to be careful how we link the two. There are ways of doing politics as Christians which are unhelpful. The most obvious example of getting it wrong is America’s Religious Right, who have turned many US churches into de facto branches of the Republican Party [...]
Ghandi once said that “anyone who thinks that religion and politics can be kept apart understands neither religion or politics”. For a Christian like myself who is a member of a political party, the question of how my faith and my politics should interact is really important. In today’s world there are many different takes [...]