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  • 27 Jun 2008
    Common sense, mercy and sacrifice

    Much religion is dripping in sacrificial language, says Keith Walton. The appeasement of the gods is a common theme in many traditions. But in the biblical tradition, love that does justice becomes the core of a new perspective, based on a different understanding of who God is.

  • 6 May 2008
    Why Christians are troublemakers

    Within Christianity there is a long history of trouble making, says Glynn Cardy. And rightly so if it is about building the vision and reality of a different kind of world in which all may flourish.

  • 22 Apr 2008
    Why Christianity remains a novel idea

    The Gospel has been much talked about but practically sidelined under Christendom, says Jonathan Bartley. Rediscovering the radicalism of Jesus' message is vital to the recovery of a proper public role for Christian faith.

  • 26 Mar 2008
    The God elusion

    The current media-propelled debates about God are mostly hopelessly out of touch with their own intense fallibility, says Simon Barrow. He tries to explain why God-talk will always be helpfully elusive if it is faithful to what it seeks to point to.

  • 21 Mar 2008
    Remembering Romero

    Easter Monday marks the 28th anniversary of the murder of Monseñor Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, in El Salvador - killed for defending the poor in the name of Christ.

  • 20 Mar 2008
    Resurrection is no Easter conjuring trick

    The modern temptation is to dismiss resurrection as fantasy or reduce it to spiritualised sophistry, says Simon Barrow. The shape of the core Christian hope is both more substantial and more subtle than that.

  • 14 Mar 2008
    Thou shalt not offend anyone: BBC's Jesus is nice but dull

    Forget Maria. How do you solve a problem like Jesus? After all, everyone has a view: well-meaning Jewish guru, dangerous heretic, son of God, charlatan. The list is endless. Mel Gibson gave us the fundamentalist's Jesus of gruesome realism: a tortured body offset by expensive LA orthodontistry (bad teeth would have been a realism too far). This year's Easter offering from the BBC - boldly scheduled for primetime on BBC1 - reaches for the other extreme and presents the inoffensive Liberal Democrat Jesus: Nick Clegg with a beard.

  • 11 Mar 2008
    Which citizenship? Whose kingdom?

    In Christian and biblical terms, good citizenship is not about flag-waving, says Simon Barrow. It is about the good practices and ways of organising our public lives which enable people to belong to one another across nation state boundaries.

  • 19 Feb 2008
    Travel Light: Following Jesus in a Consumer Culture

    The Breathe Conference aims to equip and inspire us to live well for Christ in a consumer culture.

  • 5 Feb 2008
    Just People: The Micah Course in 2008

    What would happen if your church or youth group took ‘acting justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with God’ (Micah 6:8) seriously?