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Tag: Church of England
More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC's "Rev"
by Abhimanyu Das The Church of England inhabits a unique place in this busy trafficking of religious stereotypes. They’re the Church that’s known for being, well, not that religious. Continue Reading →
More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC’s “Rev”
by Abhimanyu Das The Church of England inhabits a unique place in this busy trafficking of religious stereotypes. They’re the Church that’s known for being, well, not that religious. Continue Reading →
Say Little Prayers
News of the Silly: England’s General Register Office has revised rules that banned all religious references from civil marriage ceremonies to now allow the incidentally religious references to God, prayer, Continue Reading →
Arbishop of York
Dr. John Sentamu, the new Archbishop of York, the second-highest official in the Church of England, and the Church’s first black Archbishop, announced his receipt of racist threat letters, some smeared with Continue Reading →
Who's Afraid of the Holy Ghost?
In a set of guidelines for religious education released this week in England, teachers have been instructed to avoid frightening children with certain explanations of religious practice, such as describing the Eucharist Continue Reading →
Who’s Afraid of the Holy Ghost?
In a set of guidelines for religious education released this week in England, teachers have been instructed to avoid frightening children with certain explanations of religious practice, such as describing the Eucharist Continue Reading →
The Joy of Battle
“In the sitting room of a flat in Bloomsbury, Geoffrey Kirk introduces himself jovially as the man who is going to split the Church of England.” So writes Jamie Wilson in the British Guardian, deftly Continue Reading →