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  • 20 Feb 2013
    US seminars to offer a radical vision of Christianity

    US theologian/activist Matthew Fox and author Andrew Harvey have launched a 3-year series of workshops on what they call "radical, relevant Christianity".

  • 3 Jan 2013
    Review: Fingerprints of Fire, Footprints of Peace

    Bernadette Meaden reviews the book that many radical Christians have been waiting for. It shows, she says, how spirituality can be a unifying, liberating force, and how looking at the world from a Jesus perspective can be joyful and life-enhancing.

  • 3 Aug 2012
    Festival invites people to reflect on 'sharable futures'

    The 2012 Festival of Spirituality and Peace in Edinburgh celebrates its twelfth year with 400 discussion and cultural events across 21 venues from 3 to 27 August.

  • 3 Nov 2011
    Philippine churches engage with indigenous spiritualities

    Indigenous spirituality is enhancing the Christian tradition in many Philippine churches, as they retrace the local context of their faith.

  • 15 Oct 2011
    After Japan disasters, religious leaders explore 'another way of living'

    A major interfaith symposium in Tokyo has urged further 'Thinking about Natural Disasters and Religion: Looking for Another Way of Living'.

  • 18 Sep 2011
    Book examines post-9/11 spiritual transformations

    Among the most profound effects of the 11 September terror attacks in the US were the spiritual changes undergone by some people affected.

  • 13 Jul 2011
    Celebrating spirituality and peace after 9/11

    The Festival of Spirituality and Peace, which runs this year in Edinburgh from 6 - 29 August 2011, seeks to reawaken the heart of the Edinburgh festival for people who, ten years after 9/11, want to work together for a peaceful future. The director, Donald Reid, introduces its main theme.

  • 20 Aug 2010
    Edinburgh Festival of Spirituality and Peace

    Alongside the world famous Edinburgh Festival (throughout August) and the accompanying Festival of Politics (which we highlighted last week) stands the adventurous Festival of Spirituality and Peace (

  • 13 Mar 2010
    Spirituality and politics: Oscar Romero's legacy

    On 24 March 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated by the government of El Salvador, Savi Hensman reminds us. But his legacy of prayerful Christian engagement with the cause of justice and peace in the world cannot be killed off.

  • 17 Aug 2009
    Prayer for the non-pious

    Many people have lost touch with ‘institutional religion’, but not with spirituality. Henry Morgan explains how people’s passions and everyday experience can reconnect them with the God they already knew, and with prayer as a natural, integrating, liberating activity.