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  • March 7, 2018
    Call for Household Debt Jubilee to address billions of ‘unjust’ debt

    Anti-poverty campaigners are calling for a Household Debt Jubilee to release low income households from billions of ‘unjust’ consumer credit debt.

  • August 12, 2015
    My new book: The Upside-Down Bible

    I am delighted to report that my third book is now available to order. It will be published in November.

  • August 21, 2014
    Misreading the parable of the talents

    There are few passages in the Bible that I feel more strongly about than the parable of the talents. This is partly because of the worrying ideas that are justified by the way it is usually interpreted. I am convinced we have been reading the parable “upside down”.

  • November 29, 2009
    Civil society groups hear call for anti-usury laws and major finance reform

    2,000 people from civil society groups, churches, mosques and synagogues heard a call for the UK to introduce a ceiling on interest rates, after evidence gathered over months of listening to the impact of the financial crisis on ordinary people .

  • February 4, 2009
    Religion and financial regulation

    How would religion regulate financial markets? That was the question at last night's JustShare debate.

  • October 21, 2008
    Archbishop urges Christians and Muslims to create fairer lending

    The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has said greed is the root cause of the current economic crisis and he has called on Christians and Muslims to work together to decide upon a fairer system of borrowing and lending.

  • October 12, 2008
    Economic greed is a spiritual crisis

    The current global financial crisis is a spiritual one with usury at its heart, argues political economist Ann Pettifor. In spite of the Gospel message, Christians have also colluded in idolising wealth above people and planet.