- 01, 18, 2016
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- Guy Brandon, Unity and Diversity
“As for me and my household”: Unity and Diversity in Europe
Guy Bandon makes the case that bringing unity amid diversity in Europe requires a clarity of vision of what people are being asked to unite around. Brandon questions whether there is sufficient clarity to date as to what that vision is.
Read More- 12, 03, 2015
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- Baines, Culture, History, Memory
Overcoming Europe’s amnesia
Bishop Nick Baines makes the case that unless we recognise Europe’s Christian heritage, we are unlikely to have much luck shaping Europe’s future. Any culture that claims to derive benefit from the Enlightenment must, surely, adhere to some element of rational, intelligent accounting for history. To this end, the Christian history of Europe is crucial for understanding where we have come from, who we are and what we might become.
Read More- 11, 25, 2015
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- Ben Ryan, Forgiveness, Nick Spencer, Peace
Towards a progressive peace in Europe
Nick Spencer & Ben Ryan from Theos make the case that Europe won’t overcome many of the challenges facing it without investing further in forgiveness and reconciliation.
Read More- 11, 04, 2015
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- Adrian Hilton, Forgiveness, Peace
A union reconciled to rancorous division
Adrian Hilton explores how the Monnet-Schuman vision for peace and reconciliation has vanished in anti-democratic assertions of infallible dogma and immutable truths. Can you have true peace without organic feelings of loyalty and fraternity?
Read More- 11, 02, 2015
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- Alison Elliot, Forgiveness, Peace
Pregnant with fear and hope
Alison Elliot explores how hope and fear have shaped Europe down the centuries and are likely to continue do so for the foreseable future.
Read More- 10, 23, 2015
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- Postcard from..., Tuomas Mäkipää
Postcard from Helsinki
Tuomas Mäkipää - an Anglican priest based in Helsinki - reflects on Finland’s stormy European history and Finnish attitudes to Brexit.
Read More- 10, 22, 2015
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- Culture, History, Memory, Paula Yates
Has Europe outlived its usefulness?
Paula Yates refutes the suggestion that we should allow the EU to quietly decay?
Read More- 10, 19, 2015
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- Culture, Francis Campbell, History, Memory
Europe’s past invades the present
Francis Campbell shows that despite the EU’s evident successes, the asymmetry in memories across EU member states remains a source of division and tension.
Read More- 10, 16, 2015
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- Culture, History, Joost Röselaers, Memory
A Dutch view on Britain’s EU referendum
Joost Röselaers, Minister of the Dutch Church in London, argues that Britain shouldn’t leave the EU but rather work with others to reshape it.
Read More- 10, 13, 2015
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- Gerry O'Brien
A Eurosceptic’s guide to the referendum
Gerry O’Brien applies a eurosceptic’s lens to the forthcoming referendum on UK membership of the EU and questions whether the referendum will be fair.
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