by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
The bludgeoning conclusion of Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-lauded, Oscar-nominated film “There Will Be Blood,” which has recently been released on DVD, features a preacher forced to renounce his faith in God and admit charlatanry. Offering a mythic...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
School students will soon be able to study humanism as part of a Religious Studies GCSE under new proposals from the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations board (OCR). A Philosophy and Ethics element will allow the study of topics, like God, and issues, such as...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
Hundreds of nuns, monks and clergy will be marching on Westminster to ask MPs to strengthen the Climate Change Bill and ‘kick the carbon habit’ for the sake of the poorest in the world. The march takes place this Wednesday, 23 April. Their core message will be that...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
Christians in the US should close their churches and channel their energies into helping the poor. This is the message from the campaign ‘Faith in Action’, a resource developed by Christian humanitarian organization, World Vision, church communication...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 21, 2008
United Methodists from Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States will gather this week in Ft. Worth Texas at the denomination’s quadrennial conference, where they will consider corporate divestment from companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine...
