Hope in the Public Square: A Christian vision for the UK
Westminster College, Cambridge, hosted Hope in the Public Square - a two-day hybrid conference organised by the Jubilee Centre in partnership with Cambridge Papers.
Participants gathered in-person and online from across the UK, to explore how a relational perspective can shape responses to today’s most pressing public issues.
Post-Covid Biblical vision unveiled by Jubilee Centre
The Cambridge-based Jubilee Centre
is
gathering
leading Christian
thinkers
to
explore opportunities
for
social
reform
‘rooted in a Biblical vision for society’ after
Covid.
Executive
Director
Jonathan
Tame
(pictured
left)
said:
‘The
coronavirus
pandemic has created a pivotal moment in
history. Sweeping changes have upended
established norms, given vast power to the
state and amplified the impact of inequality.
How will this be rolled back, and what will
the post-Covid-19
landscape
look
like? Is
there a distinct contribution
that comes from a Biblical perspective?’
Cohabitation?
Contrary to expectations, although more than four out of five couples in Britain choose to live together before getting married, marriage remains the most likely eventual long-term choice made by cohabiting couples.
Around three in five couples who stop cohabiting decide to get married, while less than two in five separate, so marriage is still the preferred relationship choice of the vast majority of adults. However, cohabitation is typically a short-lived and fragile state on its own terms, and those couples who cohabit prior to marriage are at a greatly increased risk of divorce.