Category - giles fraser

Overcome fear, urges gay bishop as protestor disrupts sermon

staff writers — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:26:46 +0100

The openly gay Anglican Bishop of New Hampshire in the USA has spoken today of his sadness for a protester who interrupted his sermon on Sunday - urging Christians to overcome prejudice and fear with love.

Fairness, trade and free market ideology

Simon Barrow — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:01:26 +0000

Free market ideologues have used Fairtrade Fortnight to attack what they regard as counter-productive do-gooding, says Simon Barrow. But what does freedom mean in economic terms, and is fairness something to be left wholly to markets?

The Passover message of radical freedom

Giles Fraser — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:58:07 +0100

Giles Fraser says that Christianity should recapture the liberating core of its message - in partnership with its Jewish friends

How the Bible was used to justify slavery

Giles Fraser — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:06:59 +0000

Giles Fraser reflects on John Newton’s painful conversion from uncritical theology

Giving fundamentalism a secular boost

Giles Fraser — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:09:27 +0000

Giles Fraser laments the unlikely alliance between some vociferous atheists and religious fundamentalism

A church that still embodies Britain's radical tradition by Giles Fraser

Giles Fraser — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:56:15 +0000

How the spirit of the Putney Debates lives on