Investigative journalist wins world Christian peace award

The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has announced that investigative journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, a daily TV/radio news show airing on more than 700 stations worldwide, is to receive its Communication for Peace Award. The...

Examining fundamentalism in Europe

At the end of July 2008 I went to Prague this for the Tenth International (Dietrich) Bonhoeffer Congress, to present a synoptic view of fundamentalism(s). The conferees were probing ways in which the life and record of the theologian put to death by the Nazis in the...

Keeping an eye on China

Mao Zedong died in 1976, and since then, two big things have hap­pened to China. The first is the explosion of the Chinese economy. Everybody has been talking about that. The other is the explosion of religion. The distinguished sinologist Pro­fes­sor David Ownby went...

Internet mapping bypasses ‘church and pub’ navigation

People in Britain, whether religious or not, have been used to negotiating their directions by first locating churches, pubs and other notable landmarks. But in the age of web maps that will have to change, because traditional sites are disappearing. That is the view...