National Theatre King James Bible 8 October – 6 November In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Book that changed the world, an ensemble of leading actors will read twelve extracts from the King James Bible. Casting includes Nancy Carroll, Alan Howard, Paterson Joseph, Alex Jennings, Maureen Lipman, Patricia Routledge, John Shrapnel and Simon [...]
The Faith of the English Nigel Rooms SPCK, pb, £12.99 Nigel Rooms has come to the same conclusion many other overseas missionaries have reached on returning home to the UK: the church here needs to be as keen to relate the gospel to the local culture as the church in Africa or the Pacific. But [...]
Sir John Gilbert exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery until August 28 2011 Art lovers and devotees of the Victorian Age are indebted to the Guildhall Art Gallery for its ongoing project to revive interest in neglected 19th-century English artists. Its current exhibition presents the work of Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897), lauded in his day as [...]
Until September 11. Admission: £15.50, concessions available Streamers of paint pirouette with curious figures and strange symbols, creating playful patterns across the canvas, leaving the viewer to puzzle the meaning. For the art of Joan Miro (1893-1983), leading Spanish Surrealist painter, designer, graphic artist, and worker in ceramics, while often magical and fantastical, also often [...]
The traditional method of reading verses and worshiping Christ may not be as exciting and interesting as it was years ago. With technology and new ideas, worshipping Christ is starting to reach across and involve a broader range of individuals. Technology has officially started to merge itself with the word of God. A new method [...]
The Archbishop of York has paid tribute to Prince Philip on his 90th birthday. Dr John Sentamu said that in his devotion, duty and loyalty in his service to the nation the Duke had been a “model example to us all.” Speaking in the House of Lords hours after he was discharged from hospital following [...]
Aesthetic Movement exhibition The Victoria & Albert Museum until 17 July 2011 The mid to late 19th century saw a revolution across the world of art and design, transforming attitudes towards art and paving the way for the Modern movement. Visions of young women in Classical robes of flaming orange and shining white, neo-decadent versions [...]
Some clergy do not consider the Authorised Version their favoured translation of the Bible, so their congregations are not allowed to hear it, even on the 400th anniversary year, announced by HM the Queen in her Christmas message. But such was the interest in the sell-out King James Bible exhibition in the Lambeth Palace Library [...]
The Bodleian Library at University of Oxford will be hosting an exhibit this summer about Oxford’s role in the creation of the King James Bible in honour of the KJV Bible’s 400th anniversary. “Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the King James Bible” will highlight the work of two Oxford Bible translation [...]
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first publication of the King James Bible by staging a recital of the Bible in its entirety this spring. The recitation of the Bible will take place between Palm Sunday, 17 April, and Easter Monday, 25 April, a total of 69 hours spread [...]
