Jenny Taylor

An established media professional, academic and writer, she trained with Yorkshire Post Newspapers and became the first race reporter in the Westminster Press Group, disconcertingly finding herself interviewing her heartthrob Cat Stevens, just after he became Yusuf Islam. She has travelled widely seeing the work of civil society organizations all over Asia and Africa at first hand. She is an expert on the connection between faith and culture, on which she has addressed parliamentary and Commonwealth gatherings. Her doctorate is from SOAS in London on Islam and secularization.

 


Agencies criticise film exposé of Muslim missions

by Jenny Taylor - 25th October 2007

Steve BellBritish mission agencies who were involved in the Dispatches film “Unholy War”, broadcast on Channel 4 on Monday, fear negative repercussions, after the film bracketed them with what they describe as “unaccountable” American evangelists.

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Salvationist quits over ‘Muslim’ violence

by Jenny Taylor - 13th May 2007

A Salvation Army officer is quitting the neighbourhood project she set up, after being subjected to violence and abuse.

A grandmother and heroine of the London bombings, Captain JD who set up the Middlesex Outreach Project just three years ago, has recently raised a further £65,000 development funding for the work. Now she is losing the sight in one eye from an arterial bleed she claims is caused by stress.

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Peace or Justice?

by Jenny Taylor - 5th September 2006

The unsung churches of Northern Uganda have played a crucial role in what could be the best chance of peace after the 20-year war in this devastated land.

A cessation of hostilities agreement was signed in Juba by Ruhakana Rugunda, Ugandan Minister of Internal Affairs and leader of the Kampala delegation, and Martin Ojul, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) delegation.on 26 August. It was witnessed by Riek Machar, Vice-President of the government of southern Sudan and the mediator of the talks.

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Christianity or the Occult? Emerging Trends in the African Diaspora

by Jenny Taylor - 23rd May 2006

A senior Roman Catholic scholar launched an attack on a 'sensationalist' response to what is being loosely called 'witchcraft' in Britain, when he addressed an international symposium at Westminster Central Hall yesterday (Monday 22 May), hosted by Jesus House for All Nations, flagship church of the African-derived pentecostal Redeemed Christian Church of God denomination.

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Churches respond to witchcraft revelations

by Jenny Taylor - 23rd May 2006

London’s Pentecostal churches are responding to the child ‘witches’ scandal with training and education.

Horrific cases of brutality to children in the name of a blend of bogus ‘Christianity’ and African traditional religion shocked Britain last year.

More than three hundred Congolese and Angolan Protestant pastors and church leaders have attended or booked onto ‘child safe-guarding training’ run by the Churches Child Protection Advisory Service since February.

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The man behind the bombings

by Jenny Taylor - 29th August 2005

The 'clash of civilizations' is really a dialogue of the deaf. In Britain, the State has not taken religion seriously for maybe a century. And Muslims are not spiritual in a way that fits what sense of religiosity Britain has left.

The bureaucrats' operational theory is that just as Europe has 'secularised', so other 'faiths' that come to Britain will secularise too. This largely explains the decades-long complacency about clerics preaching hatred: it would pass just like Anglicanism is (said to be) passing.

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