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The Common Good Magazine
The Common Good is the magazine of the Christian Socialist Movement. To read the most recent editions online, select from the issues below. To receive a sample printed copy of the magazine, contact the CSM Office. To receive a printed copy every time The Common Good is published, join CSM.
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Family Matters
Issue 201 (Winter 2009/10)
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Includes:
- An analysis of Labour's record on the family
- An interview with Andy Reed MP on the family and wellbeing
- A dialogue between Douglas Alexander and Joel Edwards on international development
- We look ahead to the 2010 general election campaign
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Feeling the Crunch
Issue 200 (Summer 2009)
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Includes:
- A report on the work of Christian groups that are supporting people through the recession
- An interview with Jon Cruddas MP on Christianity, politics, and the future of the Labour Party
- A dialogue between Stephen Timms and Jonathan Oloyede on the topic: "Is politics broken?"
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Going into Labour?
Issue 199 (Winter 2008/09)
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Inequality in Britain
Issue 198 (Summer 2008)
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| | Faith in the future | | Helen Dennis catches up with three CSM members who will be standing as candidates at the general election: Sam Burden, Susan Elan Jones, and Allan Davies
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| | Helen Dennis |
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| | The family and the left | | Stephen Beer and Jayne Buchanan argue that Christians on the left need to get serious about the family.
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| | Stephen Beer and Jayne Buchanan |
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| | Campaign socialists | | With a general election just months away, Andy Flannagan recounts his experiences of campaigning, and sees it as an opportunity to follow Christ’s example of service.
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| | Andy Flannagan |
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| | Which political issues? | | In the second instalment of a three-part series for The Common Good, Nick Spencer asks which political issues Christians should be most concerned about.
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| | Nick Spencer |
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| | A clear choice | | Stephen Timms MP argues that supporting marriage through the tax system would favour those least in need of support.
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| | Stephen Timms |
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| | Supporting families fairly | | While focusing state benefits would improve the opportunities of the most disadvantaged, writes Lee Clark, the Child Trust Fund should remain available to all.
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| | Lee Clark |
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| | Is politics broken? | | Revelations about MPs’ expenses have seriously damaged the British public’s view of its politicians. We asked Labour politician Stephen Timms MP and church leader Dr Jonathan Oloyede to discuss whether politics is now broken and how it can be repaired.
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| | CSM and the Labour Party | | The nature of the Christian Socialist Movement’s relationship with the Labour Party has provoked controversy in the past and is something that we will always struggle with. There are members who have advocated continuing a close relationship with Labour.
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| | Jonathan Cox |
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 | | Religion and Politics | | Organised religion is always ambiguous. It can be both an instrument for good or for great evil. When I consider the history of organised religions the world over and look at the present state of our world and the countless acts of violence committed.
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| | John Sentamu, Archbishop of York |
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| | Inequality: it’s not the politics of envy | | It’s hard to hold onto intuitions that equality and fairness are important when others – including most of the government – seem to have abandoned theirs. A belief in greater equality has always been close to the core of socialism.
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| | Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett |
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| | The effects of inequality | | A few years ago I was working as a community development worker in one of the UK’s outer housing estates. One day a distraught local resident came in to the offices to talk to one of my colleagues.
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| | Jude Smith |
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| | The Story So Far | | Since when did equality become the standard to which we should rally as Christian Socialists? What do we mean by it? Equality is under threat.
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| | Stephen Beer |
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| | Get Fair | | I’ve seen it happen too many times. Start quoting statistics and a glazed look comes into people’s eyes, and before you know it you’ve lost them. We’re suspicious, and sometimes rightly so, that anything can be proved with statistics.
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| | Fran Beckett |
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| | Equality in practice | | When Jesus said ‘the poor you will always have with you’, (Matthew 11), he was not endorsing inequality. Quoting Deuteronomy 15, he was reminding us that God’s earth provides for all, but sin – human greed and selfishness – keeps people poor.
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| | Stephen Timms MP |
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| | Avoiding Scapegoats | | Talk for more than a couple of minutes with anyone who works in the City and you will sense a dark cloud of gloom descend upon the conversation. The scale of the financial crisis that has hit the world remains hard to describe.
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| | Stephen Beer |
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| | New Economics | | The “nanny state” has had to step in and we now observe the struggles going on between the financiers who strode the globe, the governments cleaning up the mess and the masses of individuals, who are the most vulnerable.
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| | Anthony Sperryn |
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| | The Party Isn’t Over... | | Christianity has had its fair share of visionaries, men and women with a clear idea of how the world could be a better, fairer and more peaceful place. And we Christian Socialists are the present-day bearers of their torch.
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| | Andrew Bradstock |
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| | Arthur Henderson and Methodism | | As Labour’s first cabinet minister, their most revered Foreign Secretary, and a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) is a hard act to follow as Member of Parliament for Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland.
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| | Helen Goodman MP |
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| | Facing challenges: Notes from the Chair | | Do politics and religion mix, or should they be kept separate? Well, Christians who believe in the politics of social justice say loud and clear that they cannot be kept apart.
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| | Alun Michael MP |
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| | A Personal Journey | | When someone asks me, “Why do you support the Labour party?” I often have a set thing I schpiel off about how The Labour party stands for fairness, equality, standing up for those without a voice etc.
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| | Suzy Stride |
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 | | Will the Left get it? | | In his book God’s Politics Jim Wallis' subtitle is “Why the American Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It”. Over the last few years I think the left in the UK may have drifted into a similar position.
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| | Andy Reed MP |
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