Learning to Love Leviticus and the Ban on Mixed-Fibre Clothing
by Guy Brandon We’re starting a new series for Engage Magazine on the laws found in Leviticus. Variously considered to be irrelevant, outrageous or just plain weird, Christians often struggle to make...
View ArticleTattoo: Taboo, or no more than a skin deep issue?
Learning to Love Leviticus #2 by Guy Brandon ‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.’ – Leviticus 19:28 (NIV) Along with sundry other activities such as...
View ArticleThere will be blood
Learning to Love Leviticus #3 by Guy Brandon ‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it…’ – Leviticus 19:26 ‘…because the life of every creature is its blood.’ – Leviticus 17:14 Among its many...
View ArticleWorth its weight in what?
by Guy Brandon Occupy London, 16 October 2011 (Credit: Crispin Semmens, CC BY-SA 2.0) The approach we take to money has enormous implications and underpins systemic injustice. Amongst just about...
View ArticleThe meaning of gleaning
Learning to Love Leviticus #4 by Guy Brandon ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not strip...
View ArticleHow everyday eating impacts creation
by Hannah Eves, Katherine Martin, Andrew Phillips, Peter Redmayne The following is an excerpt from our new research publication Thoughtful Eating: a biblical perspective on food, relationships and the...
View ArticleThoughtful Eating Resources
Welcome to our Thoughtful Eating research homepage: here we have gathered together a variety of resources connected to our research, including blogs, recommended resources, and recipes. If you want to...
View ArticleWeighing up Libra
by Guy Brandon Facebook’s plans to launch its own digital currency should intrigue, excite and terrify you. But how will ZuckBucks measure up to the biblical gold standard? ‘…a homer of barley seed...
View ArticleFathers, Fatherhood and the Father
by Calum Samuelson The decline of fatherhood has been lamented for several decades, not just by Christians, but increasingly by all who recognise the profound psychological, emotional and...
View ArticleMoney won’t fix it: Diagnosing poverty today
Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights at the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council. (Credit: UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Matt Williams It...
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