Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, has warned that every child should be taught the Bible at school or they will fail to properly understand culture and literature.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4678369/Poet-Laureate-Andrew-Motion-calls-for-all-children-to-be-taught-the-Bible.html
By John Bingham
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion Photo: ANDREW CROWLEY
Mr Motion said that generations of teachers with less and less knowledge of the Bible had left even the [...]
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Poet Laureate Andrew Motion calls for all children to be taught the Bible
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Freedom, Integrity, Literature, Religion, Secularism on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy New Year
Posted in Compassion, Conflict, Control, Crime, Culture, Disaster, Ethics, Fear, Fundamentalism, Hamas, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, Justice, Literalism, Muslim, National Disgrace, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Violence, War on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a blog entry by the Colourful Dreamer, who is far more eloquent than myself on these matters. I totally agree with his stance and the person he is in contact with.
What a way to start. Fireworks. Big crowds at the Mount. All good And in Israel, fireworks and big crowds [...]
President of Iran delivers Channel 4 Christmas Message
Posted in Bad Theology, Christmas, Conflict, Control, Crime, Culture, Deception, Empire, Fear, Fiction, Freedom, Fundamentalism, Indecency, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, Muslim, National Disgrace, Politics, Racism, Religion, Urban Decay, Violence, War on Friday, December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Should we all suddenly be rather afraid? Channel 4 has invited the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to deliver its alternative Christmas message. Our news story on this is now up. My first response was astonished incredulity that they could have done this. But on reading the message, it is clear there are even [...]
Inspirational reading for a season of reflection
Posted in Advent, Books, Christianity, Culture, Literature, Media, Reading, Religion on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5295172.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
Religious leaders and commentators choose a book they found spiritually rewarding this year
Joanna Jepson, chaplain, London College of Fashion
I recommend The Shack by William Paul Young. It is not the best-written book, but the ideas and understanding it conveys about God, human relationships and, in particular, forgiveness are utterly remarkable and will be revolutionary [...]
Teachers ‘beat and abuse’ Muslim children in British Koran classes
Posted in Control, Crime, Culture, Danger, Deception, Fear, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Law, Literalism, Muslim, Police, Politics, Religion, Violence on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5315021.ece
Happy and confident children being taught the Koran at the Jamia Chistia mosque in Rochdale, one of 1,600 madrassas that exist in Britain
Richard Kerbaj
Muslim children are being beaten and abused regularly by teachers at some British madrassas – Islamic evening classes – an investigation by The Times has found.
Students have been slapped, punched [...]
A Dostoevsky Parable…
Posted in Bad Theology, Books, Christianity, Church, Compassion, Control, Culture, Deception, Dostoevsky, Evangelical, Evangelism, Fear, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Integrity, Literalism, Miroslav Volf, Mission, Quotes, Religion, Restoration, Theology on Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Misroslav Volf’s book ‘Free of Charge’, giving and forgiving are explored. The first chapter discusses our motivation/s in doing such a thing and begins by using a quote from Dostoevsky…
“In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells a story about an old peasant woman, very wicked, who died without leaving a singlw good deed behind. [...]
Holiness and the past.
Posted in Christianity, Church, Control, Culture, Deception, Evangelical, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Institutionalism, Integrity, Media, Postmodern, Religion on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here is one of those rare original postings by yours truly…
On Wednesday, some of our denominations leaders gathered along with church board members. Some came from the London area, Wales and the NW of England, and the task was to discuss ideas about the organisation of the Nazarene Church in the British Isles, and to [...]
God is an easy target
Posted in Atheism, Bad Theology, Church, Consumer, Control, Culture, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Institutionalism, Integrity, Literalism, Mickey Mouse Religion, Postmodern, Religion, Secularism, Urban Decay, Violence, War on Monday, November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Dave Hill,at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/17/religion
Attacking faith groups for spreading fear and bigotry is easy, until you look at some of the positive things they do
Dave Hill
guardian.co.uk, Monday November 17 2008 09.00 GMT
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I don’t do God and I don’t like things that some of those who do God do. Bombing Iraq, for instance. Demanding [...]
Bomb threats to embassies ahead of Bali executions
Posted in Capital Punishment, Control, Crime, Culture, Fundamentalism, Institutionalism, Law, Muslim, Politics, Prison, Religion, Violence on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(AFP Photo/Adek Berry)
Militants have descended on the village of two of the bombers threatening revenge for their deaths
Richard Lloyd Parry Asia Editor
Western embassies were threatened with explosions today as Indonesia braced itself for the execution by firing squad of the three men who bombed two Bali nightclubs in 2002, killing hundreds of people, most [...]
View salvation as more than transaction with God, Leonard urges
Posted in Bad Theology, Baptist, Christianity, Church, Control, Culture, Emergent, Emerging, Evangelical, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Institutionalism, Integrity, Postmodern, Reformation, Religion, Restoration, Southern Baptists, Theology on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Firstly, I am not a Baptist, a Calvanist, or a person who depends on everything being clear cut and convenient to measure. I applaud the writer of this article in the attempt to see that emerging does not mean abandoning everything, and in fact looks to reform continually. That should sit with people well, especially [...]
