by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
The second meeting of an Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue took place in Tripoli last week, and was heralded by participants as an important step forward in understanding between two faith traditions that have often been at loggerheads. The aim of the gathering in...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 24, 2007
The Anglican bishop of London, Richard Chartres, says in a Christmas letter that the return of religious issues to centre stage in the public sphere is welcome, but he claims it has provoked a dangerous reaction from “secular fundamentalists” –...
by Sean Reilly | 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...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 10, 2007
Rupert Murdoch’s global media organization News Corporation has announced it has acquired Beliefnet, said to be the largest faith and spirituality information site on the World Wide Web, for an undisclosed sum – writes Cheryl Heckler. “Beliefnet has...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
A new report from United States intelligence agencies has undermined those close to the White House who have been arguing for unilateral military action against Iran by saying that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003. The findings, issued yesterday (3...
