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Book review: The Crown of Thorns: Humble gods and humiliated kings by Faith Tibble FAITH TIBBLE traces the representation of the Crown of Thorns, in Western iconography, from the so-called Passion Sarcophagus (c.350, Vatican Museums) to the present day. A concluding chapter races from the 14th century to the present and includes...

Nicholas Cranfield reviews The Crown of Thorns: Humble gods and humiliated kings by Faith Tibble 📚

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Book review: Exploring Spirit: Finding what matters in a broken world by Giles Goddard GILES GODDARD’s new book, Exploring Spirit, is attractive, profound, and well worth reading and then reading again. He writes beautifully, in an almost lyrical style, which is clear and easily accessible — whether he is writing about deep mystical...

Lyle Dennen reviews Exploring Spirit: Finding what matters in a broken world by Giles Goddard 📚

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Faith: In my end is my beginning IN 1994, the BBC was at its most imaginative and creative. Starting on the Eve of Palm Sunday, it broadcast the première of Sir James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross over seven nights. To my mind, this work stands as the equal of anyth...

Andrew Davison offers a theological analysis of James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words 🎶✍️

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Book review: Convent Wisdom by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita THIS book is nuns for the TikTok generation: the authors, who met at Brown University while working for their doctorates, run a popular podcast, Las hijas de Felipe. Although their writing is clearly well informed by their studies, it has somethin...

Hilary Pearson reviews Convent Wisdom by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita ✍️

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Book review: All is not Loss by Duncan MacLaren, and Ashes to Crowns by Kate Patterson IT MAY at times be hard for us to believe that death can lose its sting, and yet here we are offered convincing evidence that, with patience, time, and courage, grief can bring transformation and growth. Duncan MacLaren is a priest in the Scottish...

Jennie Hogan reviews All is not Loss by Duncan MacLaren, and Ashes to Crowns by Kate Patterson 📚

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Book review: The DARE Primer on Global Queer Theologies, edited by Lisa Isherwood and Hugo Córdova Quero DARE is the Discernment and Radical Engagement Programme of the Council for World Mission, a worldwide partnership of 36 member Churches, which, since 1977, “has wrestled with how to decolonize mission globally and locally — its praxis, pedagogy a...

Adrian Thatcher reviews The DARE Primer on Global Queer Theologies, edited by Lisa Isherwood and Hugo Córdova Quero

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Book review: Goethe: A life in ideas by Matthew Bell THE name of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is perhaps the first that comes to mind when thinking about German literature, certainly before the 20th century. Some regard Goethe as Germany’s “national poet”, drawing parallels with England’s Shakespeare ...

Natalie Watson review Goethe: A life in ideas by Matthew Bell 📚

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Evangelical Alliance survey suggests complex picture of faith in public life A cross section of 884 Evangelicals asked about their Christian experiences

Evangelicals broadly feel free to live out their faith, but almost half believe that it has been harder to practise it publicly in the UK in the past five years, a survey from the Evangelical Alliance suggests

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Book review: Goethe: A life in ideas by Matthew Bell This biography skips anecdotes for the work, says Natalie Watson

Natalie Watson review Goethe: A life in ideas by Matthew Bell 📚

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Patriarch Kirill praises Putin’s ‘daring’ Ukraine raids Message published as the Ukrainian President Zelensky proposes Easter ceasefire

Patriarch #Kirill of Moscow, praising the elite Russian Guard for its “glorious accomplishments” during the war against Ukraine, has reiterated his Church’s support for President Putin’s “most daring projects”.

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Notebook: Patrick Kidd Patrick Kidd on real tennis, mini-rugby festivals, sportsmanship, and counting Harry Potter characters in a procession

Patrick Kidd on real tennis, mini-rugby festivals, sportsmanship, and counting Harry Potter characters in a procession ✍️

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Angela Tilby: Pitfalls of the Easter vigil ceremonies THE liturgy of Holy Saturday is full of hazards. The first is getting there at all, especially if it is scheduled for dawn. The second is the lighting of the fire. I can remember rainy nights when the fire refused to light, in spite of the firelig...

"The liturgy of Holy Saturday is full of hazards. The first is getting there at all, especially if it is scheduled for dawn. The second is the lighting of the fire" 🔥

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Lent series: How fantasy can enrich reality GOOD FRIDAY Tolkien, Lewis, and the Road to the Cross C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King; and “The Dream of the Rood” (anonymous) THE events of Good Friday are so seminal, so foundational ...

"Meet these events afresh this Good Friday. Imagine being there: put yourself in the shoes of the onlookers, the soldiers, the thieves on the cross"

Reflection: Read Mark 15.16-39 ✝️

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Podcasts review IN THE episode “Rosamund Pike: Failure is Pretending to be Someone You’re Not”, of the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, the Oscar-nominated actor speaks of her experiences with failure in various aspects of her life, including language, and...

Azariah France-Williams on How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, Atonement: The John Paulk Story, A Slight Change of Plans, and The Bible for Normal People 🎧

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Alarm raised over fate of pipe organs in Britain They face extinction by 2070 unless their rapid decline is arrested, new research suggests

Pipe organs in Britain face extinction by 2070 unless their rapid decline is arrested, new research from the organ charity Pipe Up for Pipe Organs concludes

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Easter ad ‘promotes Jesus over AI counsellors’, visiting choir, and Palm Sunday procession

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Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople comes under further attack by Russia Foreign intelligence service accuses him of trying to displace Russian Orthodoxy and dismember Orthodox Ukraine

Foreign intelligence service accuses him of trying to displace Russian Orthodoxy and dismember #Orthodox #Ukraine

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UK news in brief Dyce painting sells for £100k above estimate A CHURCH-OWNED painting, The Good Shepherd, by William Dyce FRSE, RSA, RA (1806-64), a Scottish painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, has sold at auction for more than £250,000 — £100,...

#UKnews: Among the snippets this week: Dyce painting sells for £100k above estimate, and CEO of Church Commissioners steps down

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Ecumenical visitors to Cuba report of ‘complex reality’ of a nation living under oil blockade Delegation ‘deeply moved’ by resilience of the people, WCC reports

Delegation ‘deeply moved’ by resilience of the people, WCC reports

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Easter messages acknowledge ‘troubled times’ THE suffering of Christ reminds Christians to stand with “those living amid war and violence and with “the churches of the Holy Land, bearing faithful witness under immense strain”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has written in her first annual East...

Remember, in Holy Week, ‘all who are displaced, oppressed, or forgotten’ #ArchbishopofCanterbury says in #Easter ecumenical letter

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Palestinian Christians prepare for a difficult Easter ON ORTHODOX Holy Saturday, the tradition for many of Palestine’s 2000-year-old Christian community is to make the journey up to Jerusalem to attend a special ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. On the site where it is believed that Jesus...

A Lutheran minister, the Revd Dr Munther Isaac, speaks of an ‘increasing sense of impunity’ among extremist settlers

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Theology matters: Change of manna at Ridley WE ARE fasting — in the hollow hunger of Lent. We are waiting — in the entombed darkness of Saturday. We are watching — for the golden dawn of Easter, the turning of death to life. And then we hear it. With unbelief and ecstasy, trembling and joy ...

"I began to build a case for leavened bread — with the tremulous thrill of trespassing the margins of heresy" 🍞

For #MaundyThursday, Josephine Gabelman goes back to basics ✍️

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Church News - Bremen Bethel Presbyterian Church

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April News from Bremen Bethel Presbyterian! ⛪🌷
Rev. Larry Hoffmann and the congregation invite you to a month of spring fellowship.
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Bishop of Southwark expresses doubts over assisted-dying Bill THE Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, was among the speakers who last week expressed further doubts over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill when it was debated in the House of Lords. Bishop Chessun raised the prospect...

The Bishop of #Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, was among the speakers who last week expressed further doubts over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill when it was debated in the #HouseofLords ⚖️

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Together Alliance protests against Christian nationalism in London march MORE than 1000 Christians and people of other faiths marched against so-called Christian nationalism in a demonstration through London on Saturday organised by the Together Alliance. The Bishop of Croydon, Dr Rosemarie Mallet, who took part at a s...

More than 1000 Christians and people of other faiths marched against so-called Christian nationalism in a demonstration through London on Saturday organised by the #TogetherAlliance

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Archbishop of Canterbury to visit West Africa in the summer THE Archbishop of Canterbury is to visit the Anglican Church of the Province of West Africa “to strengthen the ties between the See of Canterbury and the Province”. Archbishop Mullally will visit Ghana and Cameroon from 26 July to 8 August. The in...

The #ArchbishopOfCanterbury is to visit the Anglican Church of the Province of West Africa “to strengthen the ties between the See of Canterbury and the Province”.

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Historic England grants more than £1 million to repair three church buildings in London TWO “at risk” churches in London, and the Sunday school at the Union Chapel, Islington, are to be awarded funding worth more than £1 million by Historic England to help with repair works. The three sites are currently on the Heritage at Risk Regis...

Two “at risk” churches in London, and the Sunday school at the Union Chapel, Islington, are to be awarded funding worth more than £1 million by #HistoricEngland to help with repair works

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Peter Hitchens: ‘I began to meet women who’d been ordained . . . and thought: what can possibly be wrong with that?’ PETER HITCHENS, an Anglican conservative commentator and columnist for the Mail titles, has spoken about how he came, on the basis of his reading of scripture, to appreciate the ordination of women. He said that female priests had rescued the Chur...

Peter Hitchens: ‘I began to meet women who’d been ordained . . . and thought: what can possibly be wrong with that?’

Commentator distances himself from far-Right ‘Christian’ nationalism

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I had to hide sexuality in Church of England, says Archbishop of Wales THE Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, has spoken of the difficulty that she experienced as a gay woman in the Church of England. Archbishop Vann preached during a service in the American Cathedral in Paris for the Fourth Sunday in Le...

The Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, has spoken of the difficulty that she experienced as a gay woman in the Church of England.

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