Christmas at Fezziwig’s Warehouse from ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens

 

 ’Yo ho, my boys!’ said Fezziwig. ‘No more work to-night. Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer! Let’s have the shutters up,’ cried old Fezziwig, with a sharp clap of his hands, ‘before a man can say Jack Robinson!’
You wouldn’t believe how those two fellows went at it. They charged into the street with the shutters-one, [...]

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Anthroposophy

This small spiritual movement began with Austrian esoteric philosopher Rudolph Steiner in the early 20 th century as an effort to use the scientific method to explore the spiritual experience.
Steiner said the process of inner development takes three steps: imagination, inspiration and intuition, comparing his anthroposophical position with that of natural science which he said was limited to observation [...]

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Sefer ha-Chinuch

ספר החינוך
The Chinuch is a 13 th century book of interpretation of the Torah and Jewish laws. In the 19 th century Rabbeinu Yosef of Galicia wrote a commentary on the Sefer ha-Chinuch, Minchat Chinuch, also used for religious study.
New books continue to be written to update and refine interpretation of mitzvot, the Bible commandments.

 You must [...]

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Dr Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell PhD is a psychotherapist, psychologist, film-maker and writer of the best-selling book Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion

 
In my opinion, it’s all about how we live, and not what we “believe.”
~ Marlene Winell
 

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Women and The Bible

‘Do not neglect to show kindness to strangers, hereby some have entertained angels unawares.’
~ Bible, Hebrews 13:2
Several religious scholars have argued Paul is not the author of the Letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament , but a compelling 1997 book ‘Priscilla’s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews’  suggesting the [...]

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‘Jediism’

This is the ‘public doctrine’ of the new Church of Jediism, based upon the ideas and values of the Star Wars fiction series by George Lucas:
Everything in the universe is bound by energy, from the mighty power of the sun down to a tiny grain of sand on a beach. All living creatures share a connection [...]

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‘Pastafarianism’

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ( CoFSM ) was born out of concerned citizen Bobby Henderson’s 2005 letter to the Kansas State Board of Education challenging their plans to teach Intelligent Design as part of the science curriculum:
Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the [...]

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Some Things Come Together in Nigeria

One of Africa’s foremost writers Professor Chinua Achebe travelled from his US home to his Nigerian homeland this week, accompanied by The Royal African Society’s director Richard Dowden who helped film a movie of the return and writes in a BBC article today:
He has lived in America since he suffered a terrible car accident in 1990, [...]

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Evolving Theory

 
This week sees the 200 th anniversary of the birth of natural history scientist Charles Darwin, marked by a church conference in Oxford, UK.
One of our aims in holding this conference is to go some way towards redressing the impression that some of the general public have that Christians are anti-science and anti-Darwin.
~ Organiser Rev.Tim Stead
Reverend [...]

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Around the World in Eighty Faiths

Anglican vicar Peter Owen Jones embarked on year-long a journey to uncover the world’s religions for the BBC to make an eight-part documentary about his experiences.

The BBC UK website has a set of religious discussion message boards for people to discuss these faiths and a religious information section and ethics pages.
A book of the journey is also available.

Religions are very good at [...]

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