Lausanne Global Analysis 11, 3 (May 2022)

The latest issue of Lausanne Global Analysis, from The Lausanne Movement, is available online from here, including pdfs of individual articles as below.

Kaiky Fernandez and Pedro Dulci

Theological Education for Digital Natives: A Case Study of the Invisible College

Sherman Lau

Why Canada’s Multicultural Policy Falls Short of the Gospel Ideal: Moving Toward Involvement, Empathy, and Commonness

Cynthia Stephen

A Historical View of the Christian Minority in India: Rethinking Christian Witness in a BJP-Run Nation

Babatomiwa M. Owojaiye

Christian Persecution in Nigeria: A Biblical Response to an Insensitive Government

David Barclay on Multiculturalism

David Barclay, Making Multiculturalism Work: Enabling Practical Action Across Deep Difference (London: Theos, 2013).

Theos have published the above report.

Here’s the opening paragraph from the Executive Summary:

‘In the light of the widespread rejection of state multiculturalism, this report advocates a new approach to living together, grounded not in theory but in practice. Although there is a place for multicultural theorising and attempts to articulate what comprises British values, the report argues that it is in localised ‘political friendships’ that people learn to live and work together. We need to focus less on orthodoxy or right thinking and more on orthopraxy – right doing.

More information is available here, and the full report is available for download here.

Jonathan Chaplin on Multiculturalism

Jonathan Chaplin, Multiculturalism: A Christian Retrieval (London: Theos, 2011).

This substantial booklet is available for download (here) from the Theos website. Here’s the blurb:

‘Recent years have seen an astonishingly rapid volte face regarding multiculturalism in Britain. Once political orthodoxy, it is now almost a by-word for segregation, exclusion and security threats. In this report, Jonathan Chaplin argues that in our haste to reassess multiculturalism in the light of evidence of its darker sides, we must not lose sight of its indispensable contribution to realising a just society. Tracing the history of multiculturalism and clarifying precisely what is at stake in the debate, Chaplin offers a vision of “multicultural justice”, drawn from the resources of Christian social thought, but accessible and persuasive to those outside of the Christian faith.’