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Welcome to the Religion section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

Listening as an Act of Love

  • Date:

    13-01-2012

  • Author:

    Antony Billington

This day, Friday 13 January 2012, sees the London Memorial and Thanksgiving Service for the life of John Stott, held at St Paul’s Cathedral...

The Girl with the Wings of an Angel in her Eyes

  • Date:

    23-12-2011

  • Author:

    Mark Greene

Happy Christmas from LICC! This poem, written by Mark Greene, reflects on Mary's experience of Christ's arrival.

Playing a Part in Advent

  • Date:

    02-12-2011

  • Author:

    Brian Draper

Did you ever star in the nativity? As we enter advent, children across the country will be wondering...

Journey's End

  • Date:

    22-04-2011

  • Author:

    Mark Greene

To mark Good Friday, we present a new, original poem by LICC’s Executive Director, Mark Greene. Inspired by the communion service, the poem offers an opportunity to meditate on the life and death of Jesus, and to reflect on the events of the first Easter...

A Reality That Bites

  • Date:

    18-03-2011

  • Author:

    Ben Care

With continued news of oppression, earthquakes, tsunamis and radiation leaks, we must reflect again on whether 'Jesus, Lord of All' has become for us a pietistic slogan more easily stated, or perhaps sung, than lived...

Moving in the Right Circles

Life to the Limit

One Night Stand

Holding On

Pretenders to the Throne

Crafting Conversation

Remembering and Remembering No More

Disillusioned?

Calvin at 500

Death and the Language of Life

Stop Helping God Over the Road

Weeping over Jerusalem, speaking over Gaza

Treasure Hunt

Charles Darwin

The Power of Story

Fan into Flame

Driven to Distraction?

Take it to the Streets

Neither Private nor Privileged

Disaster Relief

Defender of the Faiths?

Seven Ways to Change the World

Discipleship - and the Bill

Rowan in the Wrong Direction?

Taking Stock

Liverpool Nativity

Talking about the Teddy?

A Time for Sacrifices

Darwin's Angel

Brian Who?

Soul Music

Transforming Presence

Battling Through Lent

Roots to Happiness

Missing the Magic?

Journeys and Stories

Velvet Elvis

The Two Richards

Beyond the Veil

One Step Closer to Paradise

The Opposite of Terror

Putting Faith to Work

Brian Draper in the Guardian

Sunset Ibiza

The Da Vinci Code

Choose Your Words

Demonstrating Love

God's Politics

Change One Thing

Standing up to Big Business

The Root of all Evil?

Forgiveness and the Kingdom

No Sex Please, We're Teenagers

George and the Chocolate Factory

Reporting the Reporters

Angels and Demons - The Opportunity

Harry Potter and the Subjects the Church Forgot

Beyond the Fringe

The New Ten Commandments

The Twilight of Atheism

Dawkins' God

The Excommunication of Rocco Buttiglione

Thought for the Day - 9/11

God is not a Republican

Godly Play

The Secret of Kabbalah

Positively Vulgar

When is a Christian not a Christian

What the World Thinks of God

Religious Education

Today the Headscarf, Tomorrow the Cross

Bye Bye Christmas, Hello Holidays

Remember All Souls

In a League of our Own?

Hungry for attention

Change from on High? Alastair Campbell and God

Of Media, Evangelicals and Bigotry

Bruce Almighty

Beckham's Foot

Learning to Read

Sifting the Rubble of 9/11

The Horror in the USA

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