The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
Director's Publications - a selection of downloadable pieces:
For more of the Director’s publications, see the News column, the People page and the Ethics in Brief page.
• 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
• ‘States of secularism’, published in the online Comment is Free section of the Guardian:
• 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
• other articles published in the online Canadian journal Comment
• 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. Director's commentaries on the Coalition and the Conservative Party
2. Summer 2010 Newsletter
3. Latest issues of Ethics in Brief
4. Director's commentary on McFarlane v Relate case
5. KLICE contributes to 'Studies in Christian Ethics' issue
6. Director's article on role of institutions, in 'The Other Journal'
7. Review article on God and Government
8. Director's Guardian postings
