by Sean Reilly | Feb 11, 2008
As churches from around the world gear up to respond to the Southern Africa flood emergency, the Methodist Church in Britain is sending a solidarity grant of £30,000 to provide support for the victims of the disaster. Contributions are also in process from members of...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 11, 2008
A prominent Labour MP, speaking on behalf of the Christian Socialist Movement (CSM), has expressed dismay at what he calls “the hysterical and largely uninformed media response” to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture on civil and religious law in...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
Electronics workers in Mexico are regularly subjected to denial of labour rights and dignity by companies – practices which needed to be challenged and changed, says a new report from the England and Wales Catholic development agency, CAFOD. The report from the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is panicking over the demise of organised Christianity’s power and influence in society and seeking a multi-faith settlement to address these concerns, a TV discussion programme heard today. Speaking on BBC1’s ‘The Big...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
In 1987, the Jesuit scholar Michael Buckley published his masterful work, At the Origins of Modern Atheism (Yale University Press). His thesis was that the main cause of atheism is bad theism. In other words, we brought it on ourselves. The argument is roughly this....
