Image / crashcalloway A large-scale reconstruction of the Passion of Christ, the story of Christ’s trial and execution, will be staged in Trafalgar Square this Easter. A troupe of 150 performers will decamp from the Wintershall Estate, Surrey, bringing with them a sprinkling of donkeys, …
Photo / andykee How to get modern man, with all his digital devices, to darken the doors of your church? Just tell him that God’s down with all the tech. The Rev Canon David Parrott, of St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall in the City, blessed …
Hanukkah – or Chanukah as the london.gov.uk website prefers – is the eight day Jewish festival that started last Friday, marking the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabee uprising a long, long time ago. A 30 foot tall Menorah has been …
What better way is there to spend Halloween than at an exhibition detailing the gratuitously violent death of a pacifist? Clearly the directing mind of the National Gallery had one eye towards timing when their latest exhibition, The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Paintings & Sculpture …
The Immanuel International Christian Centre in Waltamstow PRAISE THE LORD! are under orders to turn the sound down during Sunday services, having received a complaint from a resident living nearby PRAISE HIM! Now limited to only 20 minutes of music between 11.30am and 11.50am, the …
Biologist, presenter, atheist love/hate figure and Dr-Who-assistant-marrying author Richard Dawkins has a new book out. Naturally, that means opportunities to see the controversial thinker talk about his latest work. The Greatest Show on Earth carefully explains the evidence for evolution by natural selection (as opposed …
We’ve got a double-whammy of suggested talks tonight, taking place practically next door to each other on Holborn. At 6pm, the currently ubiquitous Iain Sinclair will be speaking about the lost rivers of London…only metres from the course of the River Fleet at Barnard’s Inn …
The atheist bus ad sparked a lot of controversy, but perhaps the most trenchant issue was the wording of its message. For some it was too agnostic to be of any worth, for others, it was simply a glib and meaningless message. The ASA even …
That’s probably not a fair summary of the survey in question, but hear this Londonista out. A London church commissioned a survey of people’s religious beliefs, with the results released (exclusively it seems) to the BBC. The Beeb reported, with a surprised look on its …
Back in August, a project to raise money for a bus advert promoting atheism seemed to fail after a lack of sufficient pledges. However, there’s one thing you can say about atheists – they’ve got the patience of Job. This morning, the British Humanist Society, …
As if our hard working, Square Mile and Docklands’ financial sector workers didn’t have it tough enough right now, it seems they’ve provoked the wrath of god with their wicked debt trading. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have seized plum media opportunities to comment …
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