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Relationships take a variety of shapes - whether family relationships, friends, work colleagues or partners. Their importance is seen in the time and energy we invest in them. How does being a Christian affect the way relationships are nurtured and valued?
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Why not legalise same-sex marriage? (triple helix - spring 2012)
Why not legalise same-sex marriage? Britain is coming under increasing pressure to legalise same-sex marriage and Prime Minister David Cameron is determined to drive it through. A consultation on same-sex marriage closed in Scotland in December 2011 and a new consultation has been launched in...
Building CMF Networks (triple helix - spring 2012)
Mark Pickering suggests ways to strengthen CMF's local and regional support networks. key points - Local networks are essential. Although membership of the local church is vital, doctors often need to talk and pray with others who understand the challenges of medicine. Building closer links is not...
The Single Issue (nucleus - winter 2011)
By Al Hsu IVP 1998 £7.99 RRP (but £4.00 on 12-12 scheme) - Being a Christian isn't always easy. The same is true for being single. Surely it's just bad luck to find yourself both single and a Christian - double the difficulties some may say. It can feel that marriage is the expected within church,...
The blessings of marriage (triple helix - winter 2011)
Marriage leads to better family relationships, less economic dependence, better physical health and longevity, improved mental health and emotional well-being and reduced crime and domestic violence. These are the (unsurprising) main conclusions of a new report (1) on the benefits of marriage from...
All you need is love (triple helix - summer 2010)
We never consciously set out to have a theme for this edition of Triple Helix, much less one about relationships. But that's how the material – commissioned and contributed spontaneously – came in. We've considered whether QOF's box-ticking damages the doctor-patient relationship, what really...
Meeting Dr Right part 2 (triple helix - summer 2010)
In 2006 Triple Helix asked whether single Christian doctors should embrace twenty first century dating techniques. (1) Stephanie (2) is a consultant physician in her forties who read the article and subsequently registered with a couple of the introduction agencies featured. Through one she met...
Growing up ... growing wise (triple helix - summer 2010)
Lovewise 2009 - £20 Resource pack (available from the Lovewise office) - info@lovewise.org.uk 0191 2281 3636 www.lovewise.org.uk - ISBN - n/a - - Many parents are uncomfortable with relationships teaching delivered from an overtly secular standpoint that promotes a strongly liberal morality. This...
Teaching abstinence works: children delay first intercourse
2/2/2010
(published: Daily Telegraph)
http:// http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7127838/Teaching-abstinence-makes-children-delay-first-sexual-intercourse-research.html
Just sex - is it ever just sex? (triple helix - winter 2009)
- Guy Brandon IVP 2009 - £9.99 - Pb 224pp - ISBN 978 1 84474 371 1 - - This is vital stuff' says Romance Academy director, Rachel Gardner, in her foreword and so it is. As the author, a theologian at Cambridge's Jubilee Centre, clearly recognises, it is also a book many readers may consider...
Controversial sex education to be statutory from age 5
12/11/2009
On 11 November the government accepted all the major recommendations of the 2007/08 report by the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group. In a written ministerial statement, the Department for Children, Schools and Families said: 'The Government has taken forward all the major recommendations including making sex and relationships education...
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