Category - christmas

Muted Christmas follows violence in India

staff writers — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:01:09 +0000

Christians in India have been muted in Christmas festivity this year, following violence in Orissa, Karnataka and the tragic Mumbai attacks.

The Christ child, the vulnerable and human rights

Savi Hensman — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:55:45 +0000

Confusing divine greatness with human notions of power and grandeur can end up justifying human rights abuses, says Savi Hensman. The Christmas story is a radical corrective.

Christmas means compassion not crusading

Jonathan Bartley — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:59:34 +0000

Those who 'crusade for Christmas' will end up losing the very festival they would defend, says Jonathan Bartley, because they miss its true meaning.

Red Mary: This real Christmas message isn't meek and mild, it's subversive, a challenge to wealth and power, Guardian CIF

Press Office — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:20:52 +0000

The Christmas offensive has been waged well this year.

Alternative Christmas message about Jesus causes outrage

staff writers — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:13:26 +0000

Channel 4's decision to broadcast an Alternative Christmas Message by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has angered human rights campaigners. Ironically, it is about the love of Christ.

Rescuing God from our attempts at belief

Simon Barrow — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:37:51 +0000

It is in welcoming a poor child into the world and into our hearts that we begin to meet a love that cannot be contained or used as a pawn in any war of position, says Simon Barrow.

All you need is love, says archbishop in Christmas message

staff writers — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:34:49 +0000

Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has said that the first Christmas changed how everyone thinks about universal human dignity and points the way beyond theory to active love as the way forward.

Which Jesus are we expecting?

Simon Barrow — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:30:15 +0000

The season of Advent is about waiting and anticipation. But what kind of Jesus is the church expecting by the way it behaves, asks Simon Barrow. What is it truly mortgaging itself on?

Do nothing: Christmas is coming, says bishop

agency reporter — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:09:36 +0000

With just 31 praying days to Christmas, a Church of England bishop has penned a book which aims to be just the tonic for the frenetic activity of Advent.

Campaigners refuse to let Christmas arms merchants off the hook

agency reporter — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:17:00 +0000

As the Spirit of Christmas Fair opened in London this morning, its owners Clarion Events faced ridicule over their complacent assertion that they were "entirely comfortable" with their recent purchase of arms fairs.