Month: Oct 2022

Preposterously Reverend Lord Professor Bishop Baron Lord Richard Harries, Baron Pentregarth, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Baron, Bishop, Professor, Lord…

Women in Iran are standing up to religious fanatics telling them how to run their lives. Large parts of the world do not enjoy freedom of religion, largely because of, well stuff.

Christianity has, very, very occasionally, in one or two places, restricted freedom of religion. But now that we’re a tiny minority we’re very much in favour of it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6CLiJEonxXcyu1zBF648Lkh3yHCaeOj/view?usp=sharing

Rev Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields

It’s fantasy to believe that our new PM can fix everything. Christians don’t believe in fantasy. Instead, we believe in the temporarily visible third of the Invisible Magic Friend telling us things and the particularly invisible third of the Invisible Magic Friend helping us, working towards the mystery of resurrection.

Now that’s what I call being realistic.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qO_kvOGhwl7oz4W8nCOlGF-Q7zsMMRC3/view?usp=sharing

Dr Elizabeth Harris, Honorary Research Fellow, Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Christianity and Buddhism are both brilliant, but brilliantly different. They’ve made me brilliant too. You could be brilliant too, like me, if you adopted both these brilliant religions, like I did. Isn’t it brilliant that Christianity and Buddhism and me are so much in the news today.

Oh, and there’s a new government, that looks pretty much like the old government.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1frZ6dpzBBXaoKlccdragLCXgSCPeWVEh/view?usp=sharing