Believe in a Marks & Spencer Christmas jumper
Many consumers of social media will have noticed a growing number of women clergy posting photographs of themselves wearing a plain black Marks & Spencer Christmas jumper bearing the simple…
Nativity
Silent Night, Holy Land
As our minds turn once again to the baby that was born in Bethlehem two millennia ago, amidst social unrest, foreign occupation, political turmoil and religious zealotry, we might reflect on the fact that journeying from Nazareth to Bethlehem is…
Ding-Dong Merrily Online: what can the bust-up over Greggs vegan sausage roll tell us about the Nativity?
In Gilbert and Sullivan's (probably mercifully) under-performed final collaboration The Grand Duke, a group of political degenerates try and bring down the government of a second-rate European power by means…
Follow that star tonight, Bethlehem, Bethlehem…
Thousands upon thousands of people will go to church tonight, and that'll be it for another year. They'll hear about Mary and a donkey, a star and three kings, shepherds…
Jeffrey Archer: “I’m what I call an agnostic moving towards believer”
Jesus Christ is "the best known person on earth", says Jeffrey Archer in a recent interview on Premier Christian Radio. "If the name Jesus Christ has survived for 2,000 plus…
For unto us a child is born
Christmas has become an annual sabbath; almost the only time of the year now when families come together, friends are remembered, and the ghosts of Christmases past are recalled, some…
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us
'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.. Through him all things were made.. In him was life.. the light of…
Behold your God!
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be…
#ChristmasMeans anything but peace on earth
Today marks the official start of the Church of England's #ChristmasMeans Twitter campaign. Church congregations and clergy are being encouraged to get out their smartphones to let the Twittersphere know…
Douglas Alexander champions a Global Envoy for Religious Freedom
"Yet, at this time of great peril, I deeply regret that the British Government seems to be stepping back, rather than stepping up," writes Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander…
The blessing of the Nativity of the European Parliament
The Crib has been solemnly blessed in the European Parliament - that Brussels temple dedicated to the cause of ever closer secularity now has a discordant Nativity scene located…
Charles – Defender of the persecuted Faith
"God brings him here," said Maijida Nissan, 64, speaking about the visit of the Prince of Wales to the Chaldean Church in England gathered in Acton yesterday, many of…
Surely Jesus would approve of 'Christmas with the Aliens'?
I distinctly remember my very first school Nativity play. Being a rather quiet and unassuming child, I was bypassed as the major roles were cast and left with the…
Black Friday demonstrates that greed is now the god of Christmas
There's that classic moment in Monty Python's Life of Brian when the People's Front of Judea, during their meeting to discuss the overthrow of the accursed Romans, end up getting into…