Sunday, February 7, 2010

Going clubbing with the Bible (mainly anyone who disagrees)

February 7, 2010

The C4 series The Bible: A History is so loosely interlinked that “series” is almost a misnomer. I gave some attention to the first episode on creation. I suppose one could characterise that by saying Jacobsen wanted to develop an agnostic aestheticism that valued the text as myth and literature. Last week’s episode was essentially [...]

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Living in the present: a word in defence of Aaqil Ahmed

February 7, 2010

There’s another dodgy Wynne-Jones story in the Telegraph today about Aaqil Ahmed (Head of Religion at the BBC), made even dodgier by the headline. Those who tend to knee-jerk reactions whenever the BBC or Islam get a mention, like Cranmer, seem to have only read the headline accusing the Church of England of living in [...]

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