Mission “Very Possible”… The task: To read Romans 3 in its seventeenth century language version from the King James Version of the Bible…. The date: May 1, 2011 – the 400th birthday of the “Authorised Version”… The location: The Christian Science plaza in Boston, Massachusetts, home of “The Mother Church”…established in 19th century New England. The [...]
The Guardian recently ran an editorial entitled Religion: respecting the minority. The “minority” in question are Christians. This is based on a “British Social Attitudes” survey which asked a sample of British people whether they regard themselves as belonging to any particular religion and, if so, to which one? The editorial reports ”when the [...]
Apparently a Christian organisation called “We Can Know” assures us that the Rapture will take place on May 21st of this year, as reported by BBC Radio London broadcaster Jumoke Fashola, in a recent Inspirit programme. Those not invited to rise as faithful Christians in the Rapture will experience the “end of the world” on [...]
Okay, so they do things slightly different “over there” in the US of A. But it was interesting to read the results of a “prayer versus alcohol” survey in The Christian Post. According to the poll an “estimated 66 percent say they will say a prayer before the start of 2011″ while “more people said [...]
here are times when it can be tough being someone who loves Christianity and art. Is creative spirituality necessarily at loggerheads with organised religion, as sometimes seems to be the suggestion? At times some artists seem to want to revel in that presumed divide as if free-thinking, unaffiliated spirituality is the superior breed. At other [...]
There is a really cool, jazzy video of the nativity doing the rounds on Facebook. It has already been viewed over 3 million times on YouTube…three of them by me! In case you have missed it, here is The Digital Story of the Nativity: I crack up each time I see that click on the [...]
“The Nativity” – which airs in half-hour segments on BBC 1 at 7pm from Monday December 20 to Thursday December 23 - is a drama that is beautifully filmed and acted. It has a classy screenplay by award-winning East Enders and Life on Mars writer Tony Jordan which, you could say, is ably adapted from an original script by…God! [...]
With the author’s permission, I am sharing some Brooklyn thoughts on Christmas today (hence the Brooklyn Bridge above!)…read it with a New York accent! It is called Guess What? You can’t take the Christ out of Christmas by my colleague and eager Twitter-er Adam Scherr, writing on behalf of the New York Christian Science Committee on Publication [...]
Christmas lunch that is…! So, no blogging today at the London Office of Christian Science Committees on Publication. On the other hand, our Merseyside colleague, Irene Hall, has been published again in Liverpool’s Daily Post. Her weekly “Thought for the Day” this week is on Christmas and it is a good reminder to find moments of quiet [...]
The worldwide Manager of Christian Science Committees on Publication, Russ Gerber – my boss! – has been invited by The Washington Post to comment in response to the question of whether faith values have a place in determining issues like levels of taxation. Citing the example of Jesus at a meal offered to him by [...]
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