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  • April 6, 2012
    Evacuating religious power: foot-washing and altar-stripping

    Two days ago, I had a fascinating conversation with a good friend of Ekklesia's - someone who, though not Christian, has a real and personal concern for spiritual journeying.

  • March 16, 2012
    Wedding blessings: friendship across boundaries

    Families and communities may be made up of single people, couples and smaller sub-groups or networks, differing in sexual orientation, gender identity and many other ways, says Savi Hensman. In the Christian vision, and especially in the community of Christ, all may make a unique contribution, and grow in unique ways while drawing closer to the One whose love sustains the universe, brings abundant blessings and satisfies the deepest thirst.

  • February 23, 2012
    Lent: Christian realities in the lands of Christ's ministry

    To mark the start of Lent 2012, there is a departure from the usual style of my podcast regional analysis of the Middle East and North Africa for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW).

  • June 22, 2011
    Pilgrimage Day 6: Walking home to a different Christ

    I am currently on a pilgrimage of repentance for my former homophobia, walking from Birmingham to London between 16 June and 1 July. For more details and updates, please see: http://repenting.wordpress.com/

  • June 8, 2011
    New York art exploration of 'The Man of Sorrows'

    An acclaimed exhibit ending a four-month run in New York City has given art lovers the chance to explore a single theme, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and the Venetian artistic tradition that gave it full flowering.

  • April 24, 2011
    Mysterious stranger, risen Christ

    Through the Gospel of resurrection, says Savi Hensman, God is not just a remote ruler, but intimately present, able to empower the despairing and defeated so that they can play their part in transforming the world.

  • April 21, 2011
    Philippines churches unite around Good Friday radio reflection

    Philippine Catholic, mainline Protestant and evangelical churches have united in a radio programme on Christ's seven last sayings before his death.

  • March 28, 2011
    Christian students 'inspired by message of Jesus' to resist cuts

    The Student Christian Movement has welcomed the large turnout by Christian students at the 26 March 2011 protest against government cuts.

  • March 13, 2011
    Pope issues vehement denunciation of 'violence in the name of God'

    Violence committed in the name of God or religion is a "favorite instrument of the Antichrist," Pope Benedict XVI writes in a new book on Jesus.

  • December 25, 2010
    Christmas and the rebirth of 'peasant Christianity'

    Soothing 'Christmas messages' have become practically unavoidable, says Simon Barrow. But most of them are bland beyond belief. In truth the birth of Christ confronts us with something much more demanding - a choice between two ways of living in a world dominated by empire.