# Roundup: Arms trade, mentoring scholarship, salvation and economy, Game of Thrones, bums on seats

> the biggest threat to the future of the Church of England is in fact the congregations who now seem to hold all its remaining life.

6 April 2013 · News

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## [How do churches get new bums on seats?](https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2013/apr/01/churches-bums-on-seats)

the biggest threat to the future of the Church of England is in fact the congregations who now seem to hold all its remaining life.

## [The morality of Tyrion Lannister vs. Ned Stark in *Game of Thrones*](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6157/the_morality_of_tyrion_lannister_vs__ned_stark_in_game_of_thrones/)

A Niebuhrian reading of George R.R. Martin’s *A Song of Ice and Fire.*

## [The economy of salvation](https://theotherjournal.com/2013/04/01/the-economy-of-salvation/)

The atoning work of Christ is indeed an economic act. It is a movement of the divine economy of plenitude, ceaseless generosity, and superabundance. As such, it runs counter to every economy that operates on the basis of scarcity, debt, desert, and a strict accounting of what is due.

## [Children’s rights campaigner wins leadership scholarship](https://www.womensagenda.com.au/talking-about/top-stories/childrens-rights-campaigner-wins-leadership-scholarship/201304031929)

UnitingCare director of Social Justice Karen Bevan will soon commence a 12-month mentoring program with a leading business person after being awarded the annual Not For Profit Mentoring Scholarship by McCarthy Mentoring.

## [UN adopts landmark treaty to regulate multibillion-dollar global arms trade](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/un-general-assembly-to-vote-tuesday-on-first-un-treaty-to-regulate-the-global-arms-trade/2013/04/02/eaa49ed0-9b5e-11e2-9219-51eb8387e8f1_story.html)

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Tuesday, after a more than decade-long campaign to keep weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, warlords, organised crime figures and human rights violators.