Interesting article about religious tensions in Jerusalem with lovely photos! Not essential for the course but it wouldn't kill you to know more than you're expected to, would it? :)
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Monday, 23 October 2017
Monday, 18 September 2017
Friday, 1 September 2017
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Resurrection did not happen, say quarter of Christians
However,
almost one in 10 people of no religion say they do believe the Easter story,
but it has "some content that should not be taken literally".
A fifth
of non-religious people believe in life after death, the poll suggests.
Monday, 24 April 2017
Faith still a potent presence in UK politics
Faith remains a potent presence at the highest level of UK
politics despite a growing proportion of the country’s population defining
themselves as non-religious, according to the author of a new book examining
the faith of prominent politicians.
Nick Spencer, research director of the Theos thinktank and
the lead author of The Mighty and the Almighty: How Political Leaders Do God,
uses the example that all but one of Britain’s six prime ministers in the past
four decades have been practising Christians to make his point.
READ HERE
READ HERE
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Jesus's tomb unveiled after $4m restoration
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the heart of the
Christian quarter of the walled Old City, covers the assumed site of Jesus’s
crucifixion, burial and resurrection. It is a huge attraction for pilgrims and
tourists from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos
or photographs of loved ones and forming long queues for the shrine.
Friday, 17 February 2017
HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)
HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond
Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII,
saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier
in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while
the war was justified, HIS CHRISTIAN FAITH TAUGHT HIM THAT killing was
nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded
from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded
by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector to
ever earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Church of England votes against gay marriage report
Members of the Church of England's ruling body have voted
not to "take note" of a controversial report on homosexuality and
same-sex marriage.
The report by the House of Bishops called for a
"culture of welcome and support" for gay Christians.
But it maintained that marriage in church should only be
between a man and a woman, and services should not be held to bless same-sex
relationships.
The motion was defeated by the House of Clergy, following
hours of debate.
The House of Bishops voted overwhelmingly (43-1) in favour
of the report, and the House of Laity backed it by 106 votes to 83.
But to win approval the report had to win backing in all three
houses and the Clergy rejected it by 100 votes to 93, with two abstentions.
Bishops will now have to produce a new report on the issue.
Monday, 13 February 2017
Heal Me in the Name of Jesus
Heal Me in the Name of Jesus
An Australian Healer claims that he can cure people of their
disabilities through Jesus. Emily Yates, a wheelchair user, attends a UK
session to investigate.
Friday, 20 January 2017
Donald Trump goes to Church and the Pastor is a good example of Christian conflict between Catholics and Protestants.
Before the inauguration ceremony, Trump and his family are
due to attend a private service at St John’s church in Washington, at which
controversial pastor Robert Jeffress is expected to preach, writes Harriet
Sherwood.
Jeffress is the Southern Baptist leader of a 12,000-member
megachurch in Dallas, a regular Fox News contributor and a strong supporter of
Trump during the election campaign.
He has described Islam as an “evil religion” that “promotes
paedophilia” and has said the Roman Catholic church is a “counterfeit religion”
which represents the “genius of Satan”.
He has accused Obama of paving the way of the Antichrist by
his support for same sex marriage, and that gay people lead a “miserable
lifestyle” that is predisposed to “depression, or suicide, or alcoholism.”
Jeffress tweeted on Thursday that he was “Honored to deliver
sermon ‘When God Chooses a Leader’ for Trump/Pence private family service at
St. John’s Church before#Inauguration.”
READ HERE
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
C of E archbishops call on Christians to repent for Reformation split
It unleashed an orgy of death and destruction across Europe.
In England alone, more than 800 monasteries, abbeys, nunneries and friaries
were seized, libraries were destroyed, manuscripts lost, treasures stripped and
works of art appropriated. Thousands of people were hung, drawn and quartered,
or burnt at the stake for their religious beliefs.
Five hundred years after the Reformation, the religious
revolution that swept across Europe, the leaders of the Church of England -
itself created in the decades of upheaval - have called on Christians to repent
for the divisions, persecution and death.
Friday, 13 January 2017
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Christian Persecution - Past and Present
For the new GCSE you need to know about how Christians have been persecuted in the past and present. Here are some resources to help you!
Monday, 21 November 2016
How Gypsies have moved from fortune-telling to fervent Christianity
'At a time when large numbers of people are drifting away
from formal religion, one church is bucking the trend. Huge numbers of Gypsies
and travellers in England now say they've joined a new movement called Light
and Life. Those who join have given up drinking alcohol and fortune-telling,
and many have even abandoned their traditional Catholic faith.
It's centred on charismatic preaching, praying in tongues
and miracle healing.'
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
The Lord's Prayer!
'If somebody said, give me a summary of Christian faith on
the back of an envelope, the best thing to do would be to write Our Lord's
Prayer.'
NEW GCSE requires greater knowledge of thrilling stuff like prayer, here we have a previous Archbishop of Canterbury explaining, in some depth, the Lord's prayer and how it influences individuals, communities and societies. If you learn some or all of this prayer you can drop bits of it into answers all over the place, so it's a useful way of learning quite a few teachings at once.
READ HERE
Friday, 7 October 2016
The Gospel of John • Official Full HD Movie
This film is the whole Gospel of John! Watch it, it's only just over three hours long.
WATCH IT HERE
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