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26 February 2008

Archbishop Rowan Williams and Sharia law

The hysteria that has greeted the comments of Archbishop Rowan Williams about a limited accommodation between some aspects of Sharia law and English law reveals something profoundly disturbing about how we regard the Moslem Other.


07 January 2008

Separate Communities Cost

Sectarianism and the deep divisions within Northern Ireland could be costing the public purse up to £1.5bn a year, an official report has concluded.


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Title: Archbishop Rowan Williams and Sharia law
Summary:
The hysteria that has greeted the comments of Archbishop Rowan Williams about a limited accommodation between some aspects of Sharia law and English law reveals something profoundly disturbing about how we regard the Moslem Other.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 26 February 2008
Category: Community
Title: Separate Communities Cost
Summary:
Sectarianism and the deep divisions within Northern Ireland could be costing the public purse up to £1.5bn a year, an official report has concluded.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 07 January 2008
Category: Community
Title: Off Teddy Bears and Other Diverse Matters
Summary:
The commentator Timothy Garton Ash said recently, ‘A great debate of our time concerns how people with different religions, ethnicities and values can live together as full citizens of free societies’.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 07 January 2008
Category: Community
Title: The Withdrawal of Funding for UDA Conflict Transformation Initiative
Summary:
The decision by Margaret Ritchie, the Social Development Minister, to terminate the £1.2m grant for a conflict transformation initiative aimed to move the UDA away from paramilitarism into community activity raises some important and difficult issues.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 19 November 2007
Category: Politics
Title: The Welcome Absence: Streets without Soldiers
Summary:
After 38 years the British Army’s active deployment in Northern Ireland has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 07 August 2007
Category: Community
Title: Shaken Not Stirred – at a Price
Summary:
The £750 cocktail has now apparently come to Belfast. Peace means hedonistic lifestyle and spending. It is house prices that really animate people – not a shared future.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 24 May 2007
Category: Community
Title: TWO CHEERS FOR DEVOLUTION
Summary:
Ian Paisley’s and Gerry Adams’ lives are profoundly intertwined, even though they had not met until Monday.....
Author: David Stevens
Date: 17 April 2007
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: Slave Trade
Summary:
Apologising for the British Role in the Slave Trade: Should we apologise?
Author: David Stevens
Date: 05 April 2007
Category: Community
Title: FACING THE GAY ISSUE
Summary:
The Anglican Communion, like many churches is finding great difficulty in dealing with the issues around gays. Read more from David Stevens
Author: David Stevens
Date: 02 March 2007
Category: Community
Title: So It Was A War Then?
Summary:
The Police Ombudsman’s report into the Special Branch’s handling of the loyalist agent Mark Haddock raises questions about how the security forces dealt with loyalist and republican terrorism and about collusion.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 14 February 2007
Category: Politics
Title: Faith & Politics Blog for 2007 NI Election
Summary:
Check out www.nielection2007. blogspot.com for a new blog about the NI Assembly Election on Wed 7 March. Christian leaders offer their thoughts on the issues of the day from a faith perspective. David Stevens begins the conversation.
Author: Lynda Gould
Date: 09 February 2007
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: MODERNITY’S ANGRY TWINS
Summary:
This decade has seen an increasing strident attack by the non-religious on the religious. The USA has also seen a rise of the religious right and of fundamentalism, some of this focused on the teaching of evolution in schools.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 01 February 2007
Category: Community
Title: The Welcome Absence: Streets without Soldiers
Summary:
After 38 years the British Army’s active deployment in Northern Ireland has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper. A peacetime garrison of 5000 remains.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 January 2007
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: LEADER’S ADDRESS
Summary:
LEADER’S ADDRESS at the Community's Service of Dedication held in Belfast, January 2007
Author: David Stevens
Date: 16 January 2007
Category: Corrymeela
Title: Address given by David Stevens at Rights and Righteousness Seminar
Summary:
Human Rights language is an important language of the good. It is a language that can be shared by people who have religious faith and by people who do not have religious faith.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 09 January 2007
Category: Community
Title: OPTIONS FOR TRUTH RECOVERY
Summary:
Last autumn Healing Through Remembering produced a report entitled Making peace with the Past: Options for truth recovery regarding the conflict in and about Northern Ireland.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 08 January 2007
Category: Community
Title: A Briefing Paper on Ireland
Summary:
A briefing paper on Ireland, history and key dates in the conflict.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 11 December 2006
Category: Corrymeela
Title: Learning in Corrymeela
Summary:
Learning in Corrymeela
Author: David Stevens
Date: 16 November 2006
Category: Corrymeela
Title: Communities In Transition
Summary:
Communities In Transition
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: Boasting Collective Superiority
Summary:
Boasting Collective Superiority
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: A Time To Heal
Summary:
A Time To Heal
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: Rememberance & Forgetting
Summary:
Building a future in Northern Ireland
Author: Faith & Politics Group
Date: 24 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: As I See It
Summary:
Duncan Morrow argues that a shared future is still the only show in town.
Author: Duncan Morrow
Date: 13 October 2006
Category: Community
Title: Commissioning politics
Summary:
IRA DECOMMISSIONING is of profound practical and symbolic significance.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 28 June 2006
Category: Politics