Category - passion

A Twitter of a Passion Play

Simon Barrow — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:59:33 +0100

This year, you can travel the Stations of the Cross online via cell phone, Blackberry, iPhone, or other Internet connection – for what may be the world’s first twitterised Passion Play...

New York church performs Passion Play on Twitter

staff writers — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:41:12 +0100

For Good Friday, a New York church has been circulating the story of the Passion, the biblical narrative leading up to Jesus' crucifixion, on the popular social networking site Twitter.

Thou shalt not offend anyone: BBC's Jesus is nice but dull

Giles Fraser — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:30:53 +0000

Forget Maria. How do you solve a problem like Jesus? After all, everyone has a view: well-meaning Jewish guru, dangerous heretic, son of God, charlatan. The list is endless. Mel Gibson gave us the fundamentalist's Jesus of gruesome realism: a tortured body offset by expensive LA orthodontistry (bad teeth would have been a realism too far). This year's Easter offering from the BBC - boldly scheduled for primetime on BBC1 - reaches for the other extreme and presents the inoffensive Liberal Democrat Jesus: Nick Clegg with a beard.

BBC prime time series about Jesus expected to attract audience of 10 million

staff writers — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:56:16 +0000

The BBC are to broadcast a new prime time series about the days before Jesus' crucifixion which it is suggested will attract audiences of ten million. The series follows several other major programmes exploring the Christian faith.