Interview: Mark Thomas – Palestine & Christianity
Anti-terror laws, government-sponsored arms-dealers and testing the limits of free speech and protest: Mark Thomas has tackled them all. His comedy manages to be full of conscience and political...
View ArticleGay marriage: Christianity & the cult of family values
Do I support gay marriage? I barely support straight marriage. That’s why I don’t get why so many people get so worked up about gay marriage. I mean, marriage is fine. And I get that some Christians...
View ArticleInterview: Peterson Toscano, gay Christian activist
Peterson Toscano is an American gay Christian activist and performer. That’s an awful lot of labels. He’s also an actor, a Quaker, a survivor of the ‘Ex-Gay Movement’, a comedian, a playwright and an...
View ArticleOccupy: the next phase – Q&A with Kalle Lasn
Flash encampments. Guerilla occupations. A movement for change driven by people with a ‘spiritual backbone’. Kalle Lasn, founder of Occupy Wall Street, Editor of Adbusters Magazine and author of...
View ArticleInterview: Aradhna, Yeshu-loving Bhakti
Traditional Hindu worship songs or bhajans, sung in praise of Jesus (or Yeshu). Christian lyrics in Sanskrit, penned 100 years ago and still with the power to trouble Indian Christians and make western...
View ArticleRichard Rohr: two questions, two halves
Fr Richard Rohr is a true man of God. And, in the great tradition of mystics and men and women of God, he is equal parts comforting and challenging, frightening and affirming. Whenever I worry that my...
View ArticleGovernment attacks Greenbelt? (er, no)
This time they have gone too far. When I saw the Daily Mail headline I felt sick. Sicker, even, than one would expect from reading that paper. “Green Belt at risk as ministers ‘think the unthinkable’…”...
View ArticleBad reasons for NOT attacking Syria
Why Christians should not support an attack on Syria and why some of the reasons they’re hearing are stupid. There’s a video doing the rounds, of John McCain making a good point in the service of a bad...
View ArticleIt’s Sunday, but Friday means we don’t always have to win
“It’s Friday, but Sunday’s comin’!” Legendary American preacher Tony Campolo’s trademark phrase always makes an appearance around Easter. Yes, he’s saying, it all looks dark right now. Our Lord looks...
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