The Worker of the Future Overthrowing the Chaos of Capitalism (1935) fresco by Viscount Jack Hastings at the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in London. Photo... Continue reading
Jesus on the Cross, from the interior of Grazia Chapel. Lars Hammar, CC by SA 2.0 On Good Friday, Violet White argues that our response to the... Continue reading
The Masses, 1917 political cartoon by socialist Art Young Geoff Bottoms offers a commentary on Good Friday In the award-winning film Conclave, based on the book by Robert... Continue reading
This is the first of a new series of articles from Geoff Bottoms, showing how the principles of cultural democracy can be applied in detail to religious... Continue reading
Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing the crowd during the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. Image: Public Domain By Geoff Bottoms Terry Eagleton suggests that... Continue reading
By Geoff Bottoms In applying the Jewish and Christian scriptures to contemporary social and political issues, the various churches recognise that the origins of the teachings... Continue reading
In this edition of Our Culture, Geoff Bottoms examines the Church as a cultural and political institution, tracing the gap between the radical inclusivity of the early... Continue reading
Jesus casting out the money changers from the Temple by Giotto, 14th century By Geoff Bottoms Just as the late Pope Francis completed the apostolic exhortation that... Continue reading
Christ in the Rubble By Father Geoff Bottoms I recently celebrated a humanist funeral for a comrade of mine, and at the reception afterwards his daughter caught... Continue reading
St Francis of Assisi Church stained glass window, Churches Complex, Dubai By Alan McGuire “The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those... Continue reading