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  • 11 Feb 2013
    Will Cardinal Martini's '200 years out of date' comments echo in the Conclave?

    Not long before he died in August last year (2012), the Catholic Archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini's final comments on the Church were that its leadership was “200 years out of date” - bureaucratic, pompous, autocratic, inflexible and seemingly remote from the spirit of Christ on key issues.

  • 6 Aug 2012
    Beyond institutional faith... disorganised religion?

    We live in an era where people are inquisitive about spirituality, but hugely distrustful or even hostile towards ‘organised religion’, especially in its Christian forms.

  • 8 Feb 2011
    Ten theses about the church as a social ethic

    Whether you find him inspiring or exasperating (and I sometimes find him both!), the work of US theologian Stanley Hauerwas provides a challenging alternative vision of church as subversive, exemplary community - rather than the cement or glue of society, as in the top-down Christendom model.

  • 2 Jan 2011
    Reform, persecution and future church

    The current ills of the Western church are more to be found in sickness within than in threats without, suggests Simon Barrow, echoing a recent landmark comment from the Pope. Likewise the way forward is through radical reformation not fearful reaction.

  • 27 Oct 2010
    History today: war religion, peace religion

    Today and tomorrow, 27 & 28 October, are key dates in Christian history. Constantine's 'vision of the Cross' in 312, and his attribution of military victory at the Battle of Milvian Bridge the next day to God, was the beginning of Christendom in Europe - an era which mixed civilisation with bloodshed, saints with militarism, and faith with often brutal sacralised-secular power.

  • 16 Dec 2008
    Religious Defamation

    A year after the repeal of blasphemy from English law, religious defamation laws are tightening their grip on the world, with the apparent support of the United Nations.

  • 21 Oct 2008
    Non-religion beyond Christendom
  • 19 Feb 2008
    Youth Work After Christendom: launch event

    Youth Work After Christendom by Nigel and Jo Pimlott will be published in June 2008.

  • 25 Apr 2007
    The Book of Revelation: How the church turned a book of extreme Political Subversion into one to preserve the status quo

    Xchange Reading Group present

    The Book of Revelation:
    How the church turned a book of extreme Political Subversion into one to preserve the Status Quo.

  • 17 Feb 2007
    Sociologist says Islam questions privatization of religion thesis

    The growth of Islam in Europe is challenging deeply-held notions that faith is a private matter which should be banished from public life, a prominent sociologist of religion has told a gathering of European Christian leaders - writes Stephen Brown for Ecumenical News International (ENI).