Year: 2013

Durham lights up

About 200,000 people are expected to visit Durham city centre to see the return of Lumiere Festival, Durham County Council says. One of the main attractions sees Durham Cathedral, UK, turned into a canvas for a projected light show about the Lindisfarne Gospels.

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On being the first female bishop in Africa

I have tried to emphasise the issues of transformation and not just reciting the catechism. I would like to see transformation in the Church and my message has always been about a renewed church. It’s been a message of being Anglican but doing things differently. ~The Rt Revd Ellinah Wamukoya, Swaziland

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Counting martyrs

Religious persecution happens all over the world and in some places in the world proclaiming the Gospel out loud can result in death, but is it really true that over 100,000 Christians are martyred every year and that over a million people have been killed for their faith in the last decade?

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Margaret of Scotland

Readings: Psalm 112:1-9 Deuteronomy 15:7-11 2 John 1-9 Luke 4:16-22 Margaret of Scotland was a queen but also an exemplar of what it means to

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Welby’s practical moral conscience

Archbishop Justin Welby has become the practical conscience of the UK, speaking out about the moral consequences of the banking industry in the UK and the consumer culture in the west.

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The Bible re-tweeted.

Blogger Jana Riess tweeted every book of the Old and New Testaments. The Mormon author of “Flunking Sainthood” spent four years summarizing each book in 140 characters or less. These tweets have been complied into a book called “The Twible” (rhymes with Bible).

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