Violet White argues that all who are engaged in the struggle for a just society – whether of faith or of no faith – stand on the... Continue reading
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by Alan McGuire In our consumerist societies, where individualism is pushed in our faces by influencers everyday, and our communities feel increasingly more superficial and fraying, ancient... Continue reading
Image credit: copyright Ben Wildflower by Rebecca Lowe I’ve always had something of a fascination with Mary. I’m not a Catholic, but as a long-time believer, I... Continue reading
It is not only about sex and religion. It is also about power and class. The Church of England is in chaos: just weeks after Justin Welby... Continue reading
Professor Terry Eagleton discusses the revolutionary politics of the meeting of Mary and Elizabeth, the mothers of Jesus and John the Baptist. Image above: The Visitation, by Lorenzo... Continue reading
In the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, city and church leaders cancelled all Christmas festivities this year to mourn the more than... Continue reading
In Part 1, I argued that a historical materialist understanding of Jesus in a world of competing class interests needs to be revitalised, updated, and developed further... Continue reading
Who or what is “the historical Jesus”? Put crudely, the historical Jesus is the figure historians reconstruct from behind the embellishments, mythmaking, and ideas attributed to him,... Continue reading
Anointing Jesus as a king ready to take his place in the coming transformation of the world was among the most obvious cultural options for an emergent... Continue reading
Since the rise of early capitalism, the quest of working people for liberation, equality and peace for all – not only for the evolving bourgeois class –... Continue reading
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