by Sean Reilly | Jan 8, 2008
An MP will this week seek to bring an end to Britain’s controversial blasphemy laws – as a broad cross-section of believers, humanists and civil rights campaigners continue to argue that they are unnecessary, repressive and outdated. Today British Humanist...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 31, 2007
In a message that will be shown on BBC2 at 20.30 GMT this evening and again on BBC1 at noon on New Year’s Day, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams warms Britain that a throwaway society risks creating throwaway people. Dr Rowan Williams, who is also...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 30, 2007
The key message of Christmas is that God in Jesus commits to dignifying and transforming human ordinariness, not to fantasies about a super-hero figure or military conquerer, the Rev Dr Martyn Atkins, President of the Methodist Conference in Britain, has declared in...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 29, 2007
In spite of its many weals and woes, life has meaning and purpose expressed through our experience of love and creativity. That is the message of Christmas to humanity, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams says. In his recent Christmas Day sermon, Dr Williams...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Recently, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, a noted theologian and philosopher in his own right, gave a lecture at Swansea University entitled ‘How to Misunderstand Religion’. He was responding in particular to the writings of Richard Dawkins, arguing...
