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  • 23 Mar 2013
    The media, the temple, and learning to turn the tables

    As politicians fret about the Leveson inquiry and struggle to square the circle of defending a media free from state interference that some argue needs to be better protected by the state from unethical corporate politicking and domination, there is great value in us returning to examine Jesus’ engagement with the a major medium of communication in his day: the Temple. Keith Hebden argues that across the chasm of the centuries, lessons in confronting power and 'domination systems' are there to be learned if we pay proper attention.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    World churches' chief welcomes new Archbishop of Canterbury

    The WCC General Secretary joined church and civic leaders as Archbishop Justin Welby was installed in his new ministry at Canterbury Cathedral.

  • 22 Mar 2013
    Do we have a new pope for a reformed church?

    We have begun to learn something of the varied influences that have shaped the new pontiff. What is required from the new pope today, says Dr Harry Hagopian, is more than an evocative name and a humble posture. Catholicism also needs someone who can bringing a cleansing brush to bear on tired structures, on the abuse scandal, and on the existential, ecclesial, structural, ecumenical and global challenges that Christians face in a fast-changing world. It is a monumental task, but which many hope the first Jesuit pontiff can begin and lead.

  • 22 Mar 2013
    New Archbishop of Canterbury’s ministry inaugurated

    The “inauguration of the ministry of the one hundred and fifth Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Portal Welby” (as the order of service described it) was a powerful and sometimes moving act of worship.

  • 21 Mar 2013
    Big challenges ahead for Archbishop Justin Welby

    Justin Welby is enthroned as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury today, in a service the scale, pomp and circumstance of which considerably exceeds the true cash worth of the Church of England at the moment, many may feel.

  • 20 Mar 2013
    Orthodox patriarch and ecumenical visitors greet Pope Francis

    Bartholomew I was the first Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople to attend a papal installation since the great schism of 1054.

  • 20 Mar 2013
    Ecumenical presence at papal installation

    The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches has attended the mass in which Pope Francis was installed on 19 March.

  • 19 Mar 2013
    Budget is an opportunity 'to end myths about poverty', say Methodists

    Paul Morrison, Policy Adviser for the Methodist Church in Britain, says that the Chancellor's Budget this weekmust put right previous unjust rhetoric about people in poverty.

  • 19 Mar 2013
    Edinburgh launch for 'Religion and the News'

    The Edinburgh book launch of a multi-author volume, 'Religion and the News' takes place in association with a panel discussion on "Media, Faith and State post-Leveson" on Tuesday 19 March 2003 in the Martin Hall, Edinburgh University School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX, from 17.45.

  • 19 Mar 2013
    Salvation Army HQ occupied by workfare protestors

    The Salvation Army headquarters faced protests when workfare campaigners paid a surprise visit to challenge the church's use of forced unpaid workers.