A guest post from author and schoolsworker, David Skivington (@DavidSkivington). What does a simple clay cup have to do with oppression? While it may seem of little significance, the tradition linked to these objects has served to reinforce caste-based discrimination for centuries. Traditionally in parts of India, after a member of the Read more
I was thrilled to get this feedback to one of our lectures at the ITEC conference in Melbourne, Australia. Hello Mark, We met at the end of the ITEC conference. I spoke to you to thank you for your ‘Cannibalism, Faith in Progress and 20th Century Mass Murder’ talk at the Read more
We are delighted to inform you that RealityBites director Mark Roques has been shortlisted for a Jerusalem Award 2015 in the category of Short Form Radio. The feature was entitled Football and Faith and here follows a bit of background about the radio spot. The World Cup attracts huge global Read more
This June RealityBites director, Mark Roques, was invited to deliver his workshop on Celebrity Culture, Human Trafficking and Christian Faith in a mission week at Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College in Leeds. Mark delivered four one hour lessons to about 100 sixth formers and the feedback from both staff Read more
Wouldn’t it be brilliant if Christians were well known for creating the best factories, offices and work places in the UK? How easy it would be to talk about God’s kingdom if we could point to an abundance of stories like this: Julia Turner is absolutely thrilled with her factory Read more
Last month Anne and I celebrated thirty years of marriage. We wanted a break and so we booked a holiday with Club La Costa World which is located in Fuengirola on the south coast of Spain. Truth be told we got a fantastic discount of 80% which made the gig Read more
Randy Lewis was a senior Vice President at Walgreens in the USA. Walgreens is the American equivalent of Boots the Chemist and has over 8000 shops and employs 176,000 people. It has a turnover of $76 billion. Lewis has an autistic son, Austin and he desperately wanted Austin to have Read more
A guest post from Bruce Gulland (@BruceGulland) of Reach Beyond (@ReachBeyondUK). You may recall Ali Burnett’s thought-provoking piece Beyond the Bunny just before Easter, about using radio advertising to help get a Christian message across. And you may remember that lovely rabbit pic! Sticking with the theme of getting something of the good news Read more
Bob Goudzwaard, a Dutch Christian economist, wrote a brilliant, short book Idols of our Time back in the 1980s. It really is a superb resource for any thinking Christian. He begins the book with these words: We live in a world possessed and we know it. When we focus upon the recent Read more
Let’s focus for a moment upon a key idea – ideology. Ideology is the way in which idolatry affects people today and this includes the soldiers and supporters of IS. The term ‘ideology’ was coined by French intellectuals just before the French Revolution. The word means far more than merely a Read more