All Things Considered

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Religious affairs programme, tackling thorny issues in a thought-provoking manner

Religious affairs programme, tackling the thornier issues of the day in a thought-provoking manner

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Jonathan Thomas and guests discuss relationships where people don’t share the same faith.

A third of marriages in the UK are between a believer and a non-believer, yet the Bible counsels against such matches. Jonathan Thomas explores the issues.

Jonathan Thomas explores partnerships between people with and without a faith; marriages where one person is a Christian and the other isn’t, or a workplace where one person has a faith that others don’t share.  

Traditionally, Christians have been discouraged from marriages between those who have a faith and those who don’t. Yet nearly a third of marriages in the United Kingdom are between one person with a faith and one without.  We ask to what extent religion becomes a thorny issue, and is there something unique about faith which simply must be held in common? We’ll hear from two Christians, married to atheists, about how they broach and tackle these issues. Professor Lee Williams from San Diego University in California shares his research into this topic, and Stephen Clark examines pertinent theology. 

We’ll look at the workplace; are partnerships enhanced or strained if you don’t share the same faith?  Can the workplace feel hostile if those around you don’t share your religion, or can, in fact, benefits be found from collaborating with those from a different perspective? Christian Aid in Wales explains how their work is enhanced by relationships with others from a different perspective and Barrister Alasdair Henderson discusses the best way to approach religious belief in the work place.

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