Ridley College is an evangelically-inclined Anglican college that operates under the umbrella of the UK’s University of Cambridge. The College is also the sponsor of a vigorous menu of thoughtful booklets on ethics, worship, biblical studies and the like.
Some of them are to be died for.
You expect a certain intellectual payload in a publication associated with Cambs. What you may not expect is accesibility. You get it here.
The Grove Ethics Series applies a Christian world and life view to the range of ethical conundra that afflict modern Western societies. Non-Brits will have to do a modest amount of cultural and institutional translation as they read, but this is not a barrier to the Series’ usefulness.
Some will find a certain trendy-left slant to the opinions expressed, but not of the hardline ideological nature common to much American discussion. A recent number is titled ‘Rebuilding Trust in Business. Enron and Beyond’. Twenty-eight pages written by the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity’s Nick Spencer diagnose the ills of mistrust that corrode British culture—and beyond—in our time. Then Spencer makes the case for a covenant-based, trust-inducing approach to business that does not eviscerate the enterprise of its necessary self-interested component.
Other recent numbers treat ‘After Alder Hey: Trust and Mistrust in Contemporary Healthcare’, ‘Corporate Ethical Accounting’, ‘Fair Trade as Christian Mission’, and ‘The Ethics of Business Competition’.
Such writing is the kind of societal engagement at which British evangelicals so often excel.
Long live their tribe.
Canter Bridge 
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