by Simon Jones | Mar 30, 2016 | Opinion
I visited the Calais Jungle in early March with Lynn Green, general secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. The goal was to help her see what was happening and give her some insight into the work I and some colleagues (notably Juliet Kilpin, a Baptist...
by Simon Jones | Feb 23, 2016 | Opinion
I have been visiting regularly the refugee camp in Calais, France, which increasingly looks like a suburb of the city. The so-called “jungle” is home to a group of friends struggling to hold their lives together in the teeth of sometimes the indifference...
by Simon Jones | Dec 29, 2014 | Opinion
One voice that’s curiously absent from economic conversations among Christians today seems to be the apostle Paul’s. I’ve made a stab at correcting that in a new booklet, for I believe that Paul has something both unique and relevant to contribute to...
by Simon Jones | Nov 5, 2013 | Opinion
Nothing reveals the upside-down nature of God’s Kingdom quite as much as Jesus’ response to the devil’s temptations (see Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13). Satan offered Jesus a range of right-side-up options, straight out of the world’s political...
by Simon Jones | Jun 3, 2013 | Opinion
Tweeting from my iPad that multinational companies should pay their taxes in full seemed a little hypocritical, so I thought I’d write about it (using my PC, powered by Microsoft software produced by a company that has had its fair share of run-ins over...
