THE DEMISE of religious television was in the spotlight at this year’s Sandford St Martin Television and Radio Awards on Tuesday, as a prestigious core of programme makers were recognised as brilliant but endangered. The chairman of the television programme judging panel, Feedback presenter Roger Bolton, said that the judges “were delighted with the quality of [...]
A massive government works programme to re-engineer South Korea’s rivers has drawn protests from the country’s Christian and Buddhist leaders. The government’s plan to tame nature has brought together the country’s Christians and Buddhists in an unusual coalition to stop the project. The National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK), the Anglican Church of Korea, [...]
HYMNS ANCIENT and modern will be getting the Simon Cowell treatment, as Universal Music announce a nationwide talent search for choristers in the format typified by the influential bogeyman. Industry giant Universal Music will offer a record deal through its subsidiary Decca Records to the winning choir to produce an album of the nation’s favourite [...]
In Werner Herzog’s distinguished career (Aguirre: Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, and latterly documentaries like Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World) there’s not been anything quite like The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans (cert. 18). An English language cop thriller set in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina [...]
The crisis in the Anglican Communion over homosexuality has passed the US Presiding Bishop told a South Carolina newspaper last week, as the Episcopal Church has come around to accepting the normalcy of ‘gay’ bishops. Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s statement to the Greenville News follows upon similar remarks made by the Archbishop of Sydney earlier [...]
The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church has urged geneticists and their critics in the environmental movement not to talk past each other in light of last week’s announcement of the creation of a synthetic cell by a US genetic engineering firm, but to engage in a dialogue that allows science and ethics to find [...]
THE CATHEDRAL chief who earlier this month took a tilt at both atheists and agnostics — declaring God to be “undeniable” — has now rounded on people who say they are “spiritual but not religious”. The latest swipe by Lincoln Minster chancellor Mark Hocknull comes in the cathedral chapter letter issued to members of the [...]
The Archbishop of Canterbury today ruled that Americans will no longer be welcomed on ecumenical groups as representatives of the Anglican Communion. In his Pentecost Letter Dr Williams makes two specific proposals. Firstly, that members of provinces that are in breach of the three moratoria requested by the Instruments of the Communion should no longer [...]
In the early days of his career in journalism Cole Moreton wrote for the church press. After twelve years as executive editor of the Independent on Sunday, he is now working as a feature writer for the Mail on Sunday and for the Sunday Times Magazine. He has twice been short-listed for an award as [...]
The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church has urged geneticists and their critics in the environmental movement not to talk past each other in light of last week’s announcement of the creation of a synthetic cell by a US genetic engineering firm, but to engage in a dialogue that allows science and ethics to find [...]
