Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot – Review

by | Dec 13, 2007

Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot: The Mystery Beneath the Real, by Peter C. Hodgson, 256 pages, SCM Press. Earlier this year I re-read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, looking at it from a theological perspective (see Finding at-one-ment in Middlemarch), so I...

Advent in a time of AIDS – Calendar

by | Dec 7, 2007

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. Click on one...

Prize-winning film about Mennonites comes to London

by | Dec 6, 2007

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. The language is Low German. The film takes place entirely in a Mennonite community in...

Salaam Bethlehem – looking beyond the wall

by | Nov 24, 2007

Salaam Bethlehem (http://www.ridinglights.org/sb/index.html) is now on tour in the UK throughout the season of Advent with performances until 22 December 2007. Back in May 2006 Riding Lights Theatre Company, a professional touring company noted for their eclectic...

Open secularism meets open religion

by | Nov 19, 2007

This is the text of a speech at an RSA lecture meeting in response to a new booklet from the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society. ——————- As the director of a Christian...