Category - radical

Renewing the Vision

Press Office — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:38:00 +0100

Start: 07/06/2008 - 14:00

End: 07/06/2008 - 16:30

At a time when religion is back on the political agenda, when politics seems more about ‘management’ than vision, when consumerism and globalisation have made state socialism seem outdated - and y

New Muslim think-tank aims to challenge extremist ideology

staff writers — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:59:22 +0100

A new Muslim think-tank, Quilliam, which aims to bring together voices who oppose violence and extremism, and who want to explore Islam in a modern European setting, was launched at the British Museum yesterday.

St George is no crusader

Press Office — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:53:42 +0100

The religion and society think-tank Ekklesia has welcomed a new painting of St George, the patron saint of England, which portrays him as a man of compassion and challenges the myth of 'the crusade

The God elusion

Simon Barrow — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:11:34 +0000

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.

Anti-gay stance distances church from the young

Tim Nafziger — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:58:39 +0100

For many years now, high profile Christian leaders have been saying that homosexuality is destroying the church, says Tim Nafziger. It turns out that it may be their homophobia that is isolating the church from young people and many others.

A church that still embodies Britain's radical tradition by Giles Fraser

Giles Fraser — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:56:15 +0000

How the spirit of the Putney Debates lives on