The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, Media Engagement and Public Benefit

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-116
Author(s):  
Steve Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Christian Church ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Charity Commission ◽  
The Way

This article examines the recent engagement with media by the closed Christian sect, the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (pbcc). Historically the pbcc have been reluctant to engage with mainstream media, preferring instead to keep their own council. However, the rejection by the Charity Commission for England and Wales of an application by a pbcc trust for charitable status proved to be a catalyst for significant and sustained media engagement. The concept of mediatization is utilised as a meta-process to frame the way the pbcc engaged with media in order to demonstrate how they provide ‘public benefit’ to the wider community, which was crucial to the successful gaining of charitable status.

June–September 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Frank Cranmer
Keyword(s):  
Annual Income ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Church Congregations ◽  
Charity Commission ◽  
On Line ◽  
Mail Address ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Do So

The Charity Commission for England and Wales published an updated list of the questions to be included in the 2018 Annual Return for registered charities. The trustees of charities excepted from registration with the Commission – which include a considerable number of church congregations – are not required to submit an annual return; but an increasing number find that they must do so because when an excepted charity's annual income exceeds £100,000 it loses its excepted status. The previously expressed intention to require every charity trustee to provide an e-mail address has been abandoned; instead, the Commission intends to ask all trustees either to supply an e-mail address or to confirm that they do not have one – which looks very like a welcome climbdown. The Commission's on-line Annual Return Service opened for submissions on 20 August.

Enforcing charitable trusts: a study on the English necessary interest rule

Legal Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Hui Jing
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Charitable Trust ◽  
Conceptual Nature ◽  
The Way

Abstract In England, Parliament introduced the ‘necessary interest rule’ through the enactment of section 115 of the Charities Act 2011 (England and Wales), allowing ‘any person interested’ in a charitable trust to initiate charity proceedings against defaulting trustees in their administration of charitable assets. Nevertheless, insufficient attention has been paid to this rule despite it being initially enacted in 1853. Parliament has refrained from clearly defining the rule, and the courts have long been grappling with its meaning in determining whether a person is eligible to sue. This paper studies the necessary interest rule by exploring the way in which the courts have interpreted it and the uncertainties surrounding its operation. It is shown that, in the context of charitable trusts, the concern of securing the due administration and execution of the trust lies at the heart of the rule. The final section of this paper discusses the significant theoretical implications of the necessary interest rule. It considers the beneficiary-enforcer debate concerning the conceptual nature of express trusts and highlights the insights that analysis of the rule can provide into this debate.

Women and the Faith in Icons in Early Christianity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Herrin
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Funerary Art ◽  
Mediterranean Culture ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses the place of icons in worship, their character, and the way they came to symbolize the holy and mediate between earth and heaven. In particular, as icons became a vivid focus of devotion, they began to embody human relations with God the Creator and Ruler of the entire Christian world. It is argued that women played a notable part in this developing cult of icons. The chapter concentrates on some features of Late Antique Mediterranean culture, shared by Jews and Gentiles, pagan and Christian alike. These provided a common social experience within which the artistic evolution of the Christian church took place. In particular, the first part of this chapter is devoted to a discussion of funerary art, for this represents one of the most striking ways whereby Christians transmitted pagan rituals and artistic forms to their new faith. The second part examines some of the reasons for the preservation of these forms, once assimilated to a Christian mode, when they came under attack in the East. It asks how much that response informs us about the role of women in the cult of icons.

Voice Change in Pop Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-132
Author(s):  
Bridget Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Music Television ◽  
Adolescent Voice ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses the way popular understanding and misunderstanding of voice change is largely perpetuated by mainstream media. Portrayals of voice change distributed via music, television, and movies have contributed to a simulacrum of adolescent voice change, a situated reality not based in fact but accepted in pop culture. The generally embraced perception of voice change is that it is a time of humiliation, anxiety, turmoil, and dread. Voice change is not always pleasant, but students and music educators perceive and approach the experience with such angst and trepidation well before it begins that is rarely given the opportunity to be something positive or exciting. The chapter examines and distills episodes of The Brady Bunch, The Wonder Years, and The Goldbergs, popular television series that spanned a period of more than 40 years, each with an episode focused on the adolescent changing voice.

R (Independent Schools Council) v Charity Commission for England and Wales [2011] UKUT 421 (TCC), Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Whayman
Keyword(s):  
Independent Schools ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Charity Commission

Essential Cases: Equity & Trusts provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R (Independent Schools Council) v Charity Commission for England and Wales [2011] UKUT 421 (TCC), Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber). The document also includes supporting commentary from author Derek Whayman.

Media Business Literacy in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-129
Author(s):  
Inci Tari
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

The digital age is changing everything forever. Media is changing in many ways ranging from the way people screen it to the way it is operated as a business. Profitable mainstream media of yesterday is struggling to survive against disruptive innovation brought by new technologies and being challenged by giant technology companies such as Google and Facebook, which are forming a duopoly, especially in terms of digital advertising revenues. These conditions are forcing media managers to be more literate than ever. Although there is a definition for media literacy and business literacy, there is no definition for media business literacy yet. This study will try to make a definition of media business literacy, which should involve stakeholders, markets, products, customers, competitors, financial terminology, and financial statements. After this broad definition, the rest of the chapter will focus on the changing media industry structure providing an insight on some financial and numerical information that needs to be understood by everyone interested in media business.

The human lifespan

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (A) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Bernard Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Human Lifespan ◽  
Future Extension ◽  
Length Of Life ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the distribution of deaths in life tables for the population of England and Wales as a means of exploring the way in which the length of life is steadily advancing. To assess the possibility for future extension, some extreme assumptions are made about the reduction in mortality rates for certain causes. A distinction is made between ‘anticipated' deaths and ‘senescent' deaths, the latter group falling within bounds either side of a terminal peak in the distribution of deaths by age. For males, the extreme assumptions yield a peak at age 86 with some 85 per cent of deaths within the senescent area. For females, the peak is at about age 92 with 90 per cent of deaths in the senescent area.

scholarly journals The Sacrosanctity of the Holocaust and its Influence on Judaism and the State of Israel

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-247
Author(s):  
Victoria Nesfield
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Of Israel

The Holocaust maintains a status of inviolability in the Christian religious public sphere and also the mainstream media. The scale, gravity and sheer atrocity of the Holocaust still commands a response. The article argues that questions demanded by the Holocaust of the Christian church and the free world’s passivity in the face of genocide, led to a Christian support for the State of Israel driven by guilt and a sense of moral obligation which side-lined the impact of the State on the Palestinian people. With the Israel-Palestine conflict in its seventh decade, the imperative to overcome the hegemony of Holocaust memory is more urgent than ever. Seventy years after the Holocaust, its legacy in public and theological memory dominates questions of Judaism within the polity and the State of Israel. Two legal cases, which attracted media attention, illustrate how Holocaust memory is evoked in response to questions of Jewish practice in the European polity. Two further examples demonstrate how the pernicious influence of Holocaust memory and rhetoric colour responses to criticism of the State of Israel.

R (Independent Schools Council) v Charity Commission for England and Wales [2012] Ch 214, Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Whayman
Keyword(s):  
Independent Schools ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Charity Commission

Essential Cases: Equity & Trusts provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R (Independent Schools Council) v Charity Commission for England and Wales [2012] Ch 214, Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber). The document also includes supporting commentary from author Derek Whayman.

Restorative youth detention: The way forward?

2020 ◽  
pp. 174889582097325
Author(s):  
Katherine Doolin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Penal System ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
The Way

This article explores a range of normative, conceptual and practical issues that arise from utilising restorative justice with young people in custody in England and Wales, and considers the appropriateness of doing so within the coercive and oppressive space that prison occupies. It is suggested that, while there are some clear benefits for victims and offenders, there is a need to proceed with caution. This is because children who are incarcerated are particularly vulnerable in addition to simply their age owing to the resilience required to survive a penal system that can be isolating and dangerous, as well as their often complex needs, and difficult life histories. This is also because there is a need to ensure that the process adheres to the ethos of restorative justice, and does not divert attention from the current problems within the youth secure estate or the pressing need to continue reducing child imprisonment.

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