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Director's Publications - a selection of downloadable pieces:

For more of the Director’s publications, see the People page, the Ethics in Brief page, and a listing on the website of Cardus

• 'The problem with Julian Baggini's secular state', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'Can the state redefine social institutions?', Fulcrum website

• 'Law, Religion and Public Reasoning’, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (advance access January 2012)

• 'Why the Bideford ruling on council prayers is a setback for secularism', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'We don’t do God? Well, Mr Campbell, nowadays you’d miss a trick if you didn’t’, Parliamentary Brief (available soon)

Multiculturalism: A Christian Retrieval (Theos, 2011)

• 'We're wrong to abandon multiculturalism', Theos website (October 2011)

• 'Julian Baggini's articles of faith are a non-starter', Guardian CiF Belief

• A feature article entitled 'Why a "Just Society" must also be a "Big Society"', in the policy journal of a Canadian Christian think tank, Cardus.

• 'Football needs a theology of liberation', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'Law can be influenced by religion', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'Will there ever be a US president who doesn't do God?', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'Religion, royalty and the media', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'Was the Osama bin Laden killing an act of just war?', Guardian CiF Belief

• ‘From “Big State” to “Big Society”: Is British Conservatism Becoming Christian Democratic?’, Comment

• A view of the first 6 months of the Coalition government, for a North American readership: 'Coalitions, cuts and compromises' in Comment magazine

• On the McFarlane v Relate case: 'Religious influence on law: a response to Lord Justice Laws', UKSC blog 11 June

• 'A response to the 'secularist manifesto', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'The Westminster Declaration Defended', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'There's more to faith than sex', Guardian CiF Belief

• 'The statecraft of the UK Coalition Government', in 'Capital Commentary'

• 'Bipartisanship 101, UK style', in 'Capital Commentary'

• On electoral reform, in 'Comment and Debate' section of Theos website

Click here for a rebuttal by human rights lawyer James Collins.

• Reflections on the rise in religous involvement in the election:

'Comment and Debate' section of Theos website

• Pre-election article in Ethics in Brief

• Feature article, 'Loving Faithful Institutions: Building Blocks of a Just Global Order', The Other Journal 14 April 2010.

• Guardian Face to Faith column on role of faith in democratic debate, December 2009

• articles on 'Can Nations be Christian?' and 'Can Nations be Secular?'

'Integrity in Solidarity: Christian Professionals in a Plural Public Sphere', presented at conference on higher education organised by IAPCHE, Netherlands, April 2009

Beyond Multiculturalism – but to where? Public Justice and Cultural Diversity’, Philosophia Reformata 73.2 (2008), 190-209

• ‘States of secularism’, Guardian CiF Belief

Talking God: The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning (Theos, 2009)

• the 2008 ‘Kuyper Lecture’ of the Center for Public Justice, held at the University of Villanova, PA on 23 October 2008, entitled ‘A Christian-democratic Vision: Foundations and Futures’

• article on the Fulcrum website, entitled ‘Law, Faith and Freedom: A Critical Appreciation of Archbishop Williams’ Lecture

• article on ‘Christian Public Engagement in a Secularised Society’ published in The Bible in Transmission (Winter 2007), 9-11

• a posting on 'Can secularism learn to love pluralism?' in the ‘The Current Debate’ section of the Theos website, on whether politicians’ religious convictions should influence their voting

• lecture entitled ‘Speaking from Faith in Democracy’ delivered at the KLICE inaugural event, January 2007

• article in American journal Pro Rege, ’Defining Public Justice in a Plural Society’

• article in American journal Pro Rege, ‘Silencing the Silencers: Reclaiming a Public Voice for Christian Faith’

1. New book on 'Living Witness: Explorations in missional ethics'.

2. KLICE Comment on Missional Ethics.

3. KLICE News May 2012 here.

4. Summer Schools 2012: Nurses, Doctors and Lawyers.

5. Director on religion and public reason in new law journal