by Sean Reilly | Aug 31, 2008
A well known supporter of faith schools has said that the discriminatory practices of church schools are what give them their special Christian ethos. Writing in the Independent on Sunday, Catholic Melanie MacDonagh, championed the routine discrimination in employment...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 30, 2008
Recently released on DVD, David Di Sabatino’s 2005 documentary Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher tells the story of Lonnie Frisbee, a significant figure in the Jesus People Movement, a strain of evangelical Christianity that emerged from the...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 30, 2008
The government is being urged to reform faith schools to ensure they cannot discriminate against pupils and teachers on religious grounds and to give a clear commitment to inclusive, community-wide education for all Britain’s pupils. A new coalition involving a...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 30, 2008
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...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 29, 2008
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...
