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  • 22 Jun 2011
    Pilgrimage Day 6: Walking home to a different Christ

    I am currently on a pilgrimage of repentance for my former homophobia, walking from Birmingham to London between 16 June and 1 July. For more details and updates, please see: http://repenting.wordpress.com/

  • 8 Jun 2011
    New York art exploration of 'The Man of Sorrows'

    An acclaimed exhibit ending a four-month run in New York City has given art lovers the chance to explore a single theme, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and the Venetian artistic tradition that gave it full flowering.

  • 24 Apr 2011
    Mysterious stranger, risen Christ

    Through the Gospel of resurrection, says Savi Hensman, God is not just a remote ruler, but intimately present, able to empower the despairing and defeated so that they can play their part in transforming the world.

  • 21 Apr 2011
    Philippines churches unite around Good Friday radio reflection

    Philippine Catholic, mainline Protestant and evangelical churches have united in a radio programme on Christ's seven last sayings before his death.

  • 28 Mar 2011
    Christian students 'inspired by message of Jesus' to resist cuts

    The Student Christian Movement has welcomed the large turnout by Christian students at the 26 March 2011 protest against government cuts.

  • 13 Mar 2011
    Pope issues vehement denunciation of 'violence in the name of God'

    Violence committed in the name of God or religion is a "favorite instrument of the Antichrist," Pope Benedict XVI writes in a new book on Jesus.

  • 25 Dec 2010
    Christmas and the rebirth of 'peasant Christianity'

    Soothing 'Christmas messages' have become practically unavoidable, says Simon Barrow. But most of them are bland beyond belief. In truth the birth of Christ confronts us with something much more demanding - a choice between two ways of living in a world dominated by empire.

  • 24 Dec 2010
    Why the Pope is - and isn't - the issue in broadcasting politics

    Some people seem to have got the idea that Ekklesia objects to the BBC broadcasting a Christmas message from the Pope. We don't. We simply think that the BBC ban on non-religious and some minority religious people sharing their reflections in the same 'Thought for the Day' slot should be ended. Giving an immensely powerful individual (and head of state) access to airwaves denied to those he attacked when he was last in Britain also raises wider questions which should not be ducked.

  • 30 Nov 2010
    Christmas lights give way to radical Jesus film in Hoylake

    A community group in Hoylake, Wirral, will this Christmas be projecting the radical 1964 Pasolini film about the life of Christ onto a church in the town’s High Street.

  • 6 Sep 2010
    Kremlin fresco of Christ rediscovered

    A fresco of Christ on the Kremlin Wall in Moscow rediscovered after being plastered over after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution has been presented to the Russian Orthodox Church.