by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
Forget Maria. How do you solve a problem like Jesus? After all, everyone has a view: well-meaning Jewish guru, dangerous heretic, son of God, charlatan. The list is endless. Mel Gibson gave us the fundamentalist’s Jesus of gruesome realism: a tortured body...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 11, 2008
Good citizenship is not about flag-waving, metaphorically or otherwise. It’s about the just practices, shared habits and practical ways of organising our public lives which enable people to belong to one another across boundaries like those created by nation...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 5, 2008
Christian activists will make symbolic acts of commitment at the Ministry of Defence in London and at other venues in Scotland and the north of England tomorrow, urging a shift from waging war to waging peace in a divided world. Since 1984, Christians have gathered...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 5, 2008
Representatives of the world’s Historic Peace Churches gathered in Solo, Indonesia in December 2007, to ask what “Peace in Our Land” means practically – through the interrelated topics of injustice, religious pluralism, and poverty. These churches – which...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 1, 2008
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the spiritual leader of the Roman catholic Church in England and Wales, has used his New Year message to stress the importance of marriage and what are thought of as “traditional family values”. He claimed that most...
