Failures of Vision: Cameron and Multiculturalism
At the Munich Security Conference last weekend, David Cameron announced his belief that multiculturalism in Britain has failed: Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we’ve encouraged different...
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The following piece was originally published at Sightings on 8/4/2011 by Margaret M. Mitchell, who is Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School and Shailer Mathews Professor of New Testament...
View ArticleBeyond Romantic Multiculturalism
The affirmation of multiculturalism has almost been a marker of progressive orthodoxy amongst those on the theological ‘left’ for generations. It has characterised Church reports (e.g. ‘Faithful and...
View ArticleThe Politics of Acts 2:1-21
Although often lost in a generic celebration of the giving of the Spirit, this text is one that is filled with questions of ethnicity, language, and diversity. It speaks to the American debate of...
View ArticleLondon looks for its Olympics Legacy….
I confess it – I am an Olympics junky! Glued to the TV last night as Bolt, Blake and Weir gave Jamaica at clean sweep in the 200 metres on the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence…John Reader is...
View ArticleTahammül or Tolerance? — Hayrettin Karaman
If it is at all possible, a Muslim hopes to live in a society where Islamic norms, morality and etiquette flourish, and where they cannot be publicly violated. Similarly, if it is at all possible,...
View ArticleUniversalism versus Multiculturalism – The Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the...
Within a few days following the shock of the terrorist assault on, and wanton slaughter of the staff of, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the deeper crisis of Western liberal democracy—the...
View ArticleFailures of Vision: Cameron and Multiculturalism
At the Munich Security Conference last weekend, David Cameron announced his belief that multiculturalism in Britain has failed: Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we’ve encouraged different...
View Article“Clearly, this is not a pacifist God we serve”
The following piece was originally published at Sightings on 8/4/2011 by Margaret M. Mitchell, who is Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School and Shailer Mathews Professor of New Testament...
View ArticleBeyond Romantic Multiculturalism
The affirmation of multiculturalism has almost been a marker of progressive orthodoxy amongst those on the theological ‘left’ for generations. It has characterised Church reports (e.g. ‘Faithful and...
View ArticleThe Politics of Acts 2:1-21
Although often lost in a generic celebration of the giving of the Spirit, this text is one that is filled with questions of ethnicity, language, and diversity. It speaks to the American debate of...
View ArticleLondon looks for its Olympics Legacy….
I confess it – I am an Olympics junky! Glued to the TV last night as Bolt, Blake and Weir gave Jamaica at clean sweep in the 200 metres on the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence…John Reader is...
View ArticleTahammül or Tolerance? — Hayrettin Karaman
If it is at all possible, a Muslim hopes to live in a society where Islamic norms, morality and etiquette flourish, and where they cannot be publicly violated. Similarly, if it is at all possible,...
View ArticleUniversalism versus Multiculturalism – The Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the...
Within a few days following the shock of the terrorist assault on, and wanton slaughter of the staff of, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the deeper crisis of Western liberal democracy—the...
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