by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
Members of different faith communities will gather in Friends House in central London on Saturday to discuss The Iraq War and Occupation: Ethics and Values with leading lawyer Phil Shiner, who has helped uncover atrocities committed by coalition forces, and Mazin...
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 14, 2008
The United Reformed Church has appointed the Rev Roberta Rominger as its general secretary. She becomes the first woman to hold the senior post in the Church, or in any of its predecessor denominations. Congregationalists, Presbyterians and members of the Churches of...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
The Council of Churches in Indonesia has joined a growing chorus of calls for a controversial Dutch film about Islam not to be shown – writes Andreas Havinga from Utrecht, Netherlands. The film, made by far-right politician Geert Wilders, is entitled...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has accepted a one-year position at Yale University in which he will participate in a course examining issues related to religious faith and globalisation – writes Chris Herlinger from New York. Blair will serve as...
