Iran’s treatment of the Bahá’í community is “truly shocking” and described it as a matter of concern for all faiths, according to the Church of England’s leading advisor on foreign policy. Dr Charles Reed was speaking after a delegation of faith leaders…
Franks on Friday
Archbasher of Bankers
by Alan Franks
From some of the reactions to the new Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks about the banking industry, you would think he had just stormed into the City and overturned the money-changers’ tables. In…
Hare Krishnas today
By Charlotte Oliver
Peace, love and flower power: such ideals bloom in the mind when talk turns to the Hare Krishnas. Having entered the global stage at a time when hippy counterculture was gaining momentum, moving at pace from the…
Why did we create the #StGeorge4All initiative?
Julian Bond explains the thinking behind the new ‘St George 4 All’ statement, signed by multiple faith groups to “reclaim” England’s national saint
One article this time last year had the headline: ‘St…
Peter Tatchell at Lambeth Palace after meeting the new Archbishop last week. Story at The Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Ruth-Gledhill
Franks on Friday
By Alan Franks
Even before her coffin had arrived in the cathedral, iron had entered the soul of the service. It was there in the durable faces of her old allies and rivals, in the solemn imperishable senior royals, the serious…
Watch the video here! Singing the Muse cover ‘Feeling Good’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnaABYPCKg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
West Gallery Music: a timely resurrection
Franks on Friday
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Alan Franks
Last week, when I was writing about the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s time in east London during the 1930s, I mentioned that I’d been remindied of his presence there…
Ahmadi Muslims challenge mainstream IslamThere is a palpably tranquil atmosphere in the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, London. Hundreds of guests, including: MPs, Secretary of States and Senior Members of…
Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne
‘Any prayer requests?’
‘Yes. For my brother, who has just been shot in the thigh in Blue Nile state, over the border in the Republic of Sudan.’
A Catholic priest, from the Uduk ethnic group, was sharing in a bible…
