Think-Pieces

Chris Frazer explores the child and labour exploitation hidden in our everyday things.

Chris Frazer, challenges the prostitution-trafficking paradigm and asks how we can gain a deeper understanding of the complexities behind the crime of human trafficking.

Chris Frazer explores how migration becomes human trafficking, and how the promise of a new life becomes unprincipled misery.

Explores whether bigger is always best, or is there greatness in the smallness?

The psychology of economics, and what that has to do with loan sharks.

Alan Johnson asks whether we should have so much confidence in our economists.

Malcolm Irwin explores how chaos and creativity could re-ignite The Salvation Army’s first flame.

How ‘getting off a donkey’ changed what we thought we knew.

An opinion piece from Alan Johnson on the focus of public spending after the Christchurch earthquake.

In this issue Malcolm Irwin explores the present welfare debate and the theology of social welfare.

Unwrap consumerism so others may simply live.

A Think-Piece exploring how our faith can be translated into public debates and public policy.

A Think-piece exploring The Salvation Army’s apolitical stance and the role of The Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit.

How we can bring both the poor and the rich into reciprocal and redeeming relationships.

A discussion paper exploring debt, excess, enough and the possibility of a new kind of economics.

A discussion paper exploring consumerism and what we feel is rightly ours.

The practice of hopeful, liberating speech.

Notes on a practical theology of enough.