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  • 14 Jan 2008
    Praying for unity across a century of division

    The history of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is not just about church cosiness, says Kersten Storch. It is about the quest for healing in a divided church and an unjust and unequal world.

  • 25 Dec 2007
    Christ is an unwanted gift for the religious

    Whether we love or hate Christmas, we know all about it. But the same may not be true of the coming of Jesus, says Simon Barrow. In Christ, God radically disrupts religious 'business as usual'.

  • 13 Dec 2007
    Has Rowan Williams misunderstood Richard Dawkins?

    While Rowan Williams rightly criticises Richard Dawkins for unfeasibly reducing religion to a pre-scientific explanatory system now superseded by science, says Ricahrd Skinner, he seems to have misunderstood Dawkins on evolution and survival strategies.

  • 13 Dec 2007
    Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot - Review

    Theological truth and creative fiction are much closer to each other than might at first be presumed, Alison Goodlad discovers in reviewing Peter C. Hodgson's evocative treatment of the work of George Eliot.

  • 8 Dec 2007
    Advent in a time of AIDS - Calendar

    As well as preparing worship resources for World Aids Day the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance. has this year put together an excellent Advent calendar of daily readings, pictures and meditations. Many of the meditations are written by people living with Aids.

  • 6 Dec 2007
    Prize-winning film about Mennonites comes to London

    Mexican director Carlos Reygadas’ latest film, Silent Light, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, will be released in London this Friday 7th of December.

  • 24 Nov 2007
    Salaam Bethlehem - looking beyond the wall

    Salaam Bethlehem is touring in the UK throughout the season of Advent with performances until 22 December 2007. This is the story of a production which highlights the situation of a famous city and today's Palestinian Christians and Muslims.

  • 19 Nov 2007
    Open secularism meets open religion

    The debate about religion in public life is often cantankerous, says Simon Barrow. But a constructive new pamphlet on secularism from the Humanist Philosophers' Group shows us that a better standard of discussion is possible.

  • 18 Nov 2007
    Struggle, surprise and sainthood

    Christian faith is about sustaining faith in face of the knowledge and reality of death, says Simon Barrow. The feasts of All Saints and All Souls put us in solidarity with a host of people who have struggled to see right prevail.

  • 15 Nov 2007
    Making Manga out of the Bible

    Manga Bible fever is hitting the shops this month. New Testament professor Deirdre Good explores the cultural and interpretative values involved, particularly in relation to the presentation of 'family'.