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  • 6 Jun 2012
    Daily Mail criticises Rowan Williams' Diamond Jubilee sermon

    The Daily Mail has criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury for comments on "ludicrous financial greed" and "environmental recklessness" in his Diamond Jubilee sermon.

  • 4 Jun 2012
    The local and the universal: reflections on a jubilee weekend

    Almost thirty years ago, I went to the Yorkshire Dales with a group of friends to undertake an ascent of the Three Peaks. Penyghent, Whernside and Ingleborough make for a stiff day's walking. But we were very young and the challenge of quantity was more significant to us than the quality of more leisured ascent.

  • 31 May 2012
    Campaigners launch 'Jubilee for Justice' petition

    Global poverty campaigners have called on the public to remember the original meaning of Jubilee during this weekend as they launch a ‘Jubilee for Justice’

  • 30 May 2012
    Alternative perspectives on the Jubilee
  • 30 May 2012
    Bread and circuses

    The Roman satirist Juvenal lamented the fact that his fellow citizens had given up being politically engaged and were happy to sell their votes to politicians in exchange for free food and entertainment; ‘bread and circuses’. Let’s hope that 2000 years later we’ve not become even cheaper, settling for just the circuses.

  • 27 May 2012
    Jubilee and pageantry: the impiety of false pride

    “Gross impiety it is that a nation's pride should be maintained in the face of its poor.” William Penn wrote these words in 1669. We have no means of knowing what his voice might have sounded like when he read them aloud, as he undoubtedly would have done, but when I hear them in my mind's ear, they are spoken with firmness and a touch of anger. They are words we do well to heed in our own time.

  • 25 Apr 2012
    Queen’s record in office ‘one of failure' says Republic

    A new pamphlet published today (25 April) by the campaign group Republic says the Queen’s record in office has been one of failure.

  • 7 Apr 2012
    From 'Royal Maundy' to a real Maundy of equality

    At present the symbolism of the Royal Maundy service in York ritualises economic inequality, the subservience of the Church to the Crown, and the sanctification of an unjust order, says Simon Barrow. Maybe a ritual re-ordering of it could help remind Christians, and the Established church, that we are called to oppose injustice and who who "act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus" (Acts 17.7)?

  • 29 Jan 2012
    Schools challenged over political bias of royal jubilee

    Democracy campaigners have warned schools that they may be breaking the law by taking part in uncritical celebrations of the Queen’s diamond jubilee.

  • 20 Sep 2011
    Monarch, jubilee and conscience

    Christians of all denominations have been invited to take part in lighting church beacons on 4 June 2012 to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.