The most dangerous man in Tudor England, BBC2 viewers learned last Thursday evening, was the scholar who first penned in English such Biblical phrases as: ‘let there be light’, ‘filthy lucre’, ‘signs of the times’, ‘the meek shall inherit the…
Human dignity and rights needed to be set free from religious foundations; only a secular basis could maintain their continued existence free from religious violence and tensions. At least, that was the learned opinion one of Holland’s best-known atheists expressed…
After his 89th minute goal in at Wembley last Saturday, finally winning the Champions League final for Bayern Munchen, Arjen Robben declared he was going to get drunk that night, and probably for the next couple of days too. Such…
When Judah was taken into exile to Babylon, God’s instructions to the Jews through Jeremiah was to seek the city’s shalom, or well-being and harmony. What then might God’s word to us be today as ‘exiles’ in what many see…
Live blog from Dublin by VOX magazine’s editor Ruth Garvey-Williams, Friday 10 May: Delegates from 20 countries across Europe have gathered at Croke Park Conference centre in Dublin today for the annual ‘State of Europe Forum’. Inspired by Robert Schuman’s…
