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  • December 24, 2018
    Christmas and the spirit of patient resistance

    “We can, and should also, celebrate Christmas despite the ruins around us.” So wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a letter to his parents on 29 November 1943.

  • October 3, 2014
    Who would Jesus shoot? A debate

    This is the provocative title of a conversation and debate between Tom Yoder Neufeld, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies (New Testament) at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo and Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University.

  • December 24, 2013
    Abbas sees Jesus as a 'role model' for Palestinians

    Palestinian President Abbas has called Jesus "a role model for the Palestinians", in a Christmas message from the West Bank.

  • November 12, 2013
    The physicality of language and the fleshy word

    The fourth lecture in Dr Rowan Williams' Gifford Lecture series, "Making representations: religious faith and the habits of language", was given on Monday 11 November 2013 at the University of Edinburgh.

  • March 29, 2013
    Good Friday: Is Christianity life-giving or death dealing?

    Christians need to re-envision the meaning of the Cross in history and in our culture, such that we are equipped to go and do the Gospel that shapes us in a confused, broken, unjust and often violent world, says Simon Barrow. This will help us see that it is not true that the only ‘weapons’ at the Church's disposal are not the coercive ones wielded by our opponents. Rather, God’s cross points to the resources of suffering love that only the God of life can offer, because they are ‘beyond our means’ humanly, but not beyond divine gifting.

  • March 23, 2013
    The media, the temple, and learning to turn the tables

    As politicians fret about the Leveson inquiry and struggle to square the circle of defending a media free from state interference that some argue needs to be better protected by the state from unethical corporate politicking and domination, there is great value in us returning to examine Jesus’ engagement with the a major medium of communication in his day: the Temple. Keith Hebden argues that across the chasm of the centuries, lessons in confronting power and 'domination systems' are there to be learned if we pay proper attention.

  • February 20, 2013
    US seminars to offer a radical vision of Christianity

    US theologian/activist Matthew Fox and author Andrew Harvey have launched a 3-year series of workshops on what they call "radical, relevant Christianity".

  • January 26, 2013
    No one is meant to be excluded, churches' chief says

    In the face of divisions in the church and the world, "no one has the right to exclude the other," says the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.

  • December 27, 2012
    Discovering a vulnerable God at Christmas

    How does God communicate with us when words are not adequate? How can we even try to talk of God when literal language so lets us down? Mark Wakelin, President of the Methodist Conference, says that the whole point of the Christmas story is to show us that the God of Jesus Christ is disclosed in humanity, vulnerability and personalness, rather than abstract theory or proposition. Like love, this calls for a personal and social response within the life of the world.

  • April 7, 2012
    From 'Royal Maundy' to a real Maundy of equality

    At present the symbolism of the Royal Maundy service in York ritualises economic inequality, the subservience of the Church to the Crown, and the sanctification of an unjust order, says Simon Barrow. Maybe a ritual re-ordering of it could help remind Christians, and the Established church, that we are called to oppose injustice and who who "act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus" (Acts 17.7)?