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The Chancellor has been doing his sums, so we have to do ours.

Like it or not, a Budget week encourages us to think about our domestic profit and loss accounts, to weigh whether we should be cutting back or can afford to be a bit more relaxed about our spending.

But what should the way we use our money have to do with what we believe about God? Where do faith and finance meet? Methodist founder John Wesley said his policy was: Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. What might such a principle mean today? Roy Jenkins and his panel of guests discuss the issues.

Also this week Roy talks to one of the leading figures in church life in this country, the Rev Joel Edwards. Later this year he'll be leaving the Evangelical Alliance UK after eleven years as its General Director. It's the largest grouping of its kind for Christians of many different denominations. He's also a member of the government's Equality and Human Rights Commission - an appointment which enraged some representatives of gay and lesbian organisations, because of his alliance's stand on issues of sexuality.

He's about to embark on a 20 city tour following the publication of his new book, An Agenda for Change (A Global Call for Spiritual and Social Transformation). In this interview he talks to Roy Jenkins about the place of evangelical Christians in the world, and his encouragement to them to re-think who they are and what they're about.

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