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The Bishop of Liverpool's Awful Thought for The Day'

Chris T-T | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Thought for the Day, Today Programme, Radio 4, Bishop of Liverpool, Mammon, Quaker, James Jones, Church and State, UK Politics News
Chris T-T

The Right Reverend James Jones, Bish Bosh of Liverpool, started his three minutes by telling us of an opulent feast he'd attended, hosted by the Labour Council to make Lord Heseltine a Freeman of the City.

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What We Can Learn From John Martin's 'Apocalypse' at Tate Britain

Neil Simpson | Posted 18.01.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Industrial Revolution, Mammon, Thomas Gray, Martin's the Bard, John Martin, Revolution, Tate Britain, 18th Century, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News
Neil Simpson

The Bard represents a deeper idea. The old prophet - the last crumbling bastion of an antediluvian way of thinking - madly attempting to stem the current of an England representing order and progress at the expense of older values. In vain does he challenge the monotonous and inevitable advance of the English army.

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How the Occupy London Protesters Shook the Church

Jessica Abrahams | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Mammon, Occupy-London-Stock-Exchange, Giles Fraser, Occupy London, Church of England, Money, Common Christian Council for Economic Justice, What Would Jesus Do, Fraser Dyer, Corporate Greed, Occupylsx, St Paul's Cathedral, Graeme Knowles, UK Politics News
Jessica Abrahams

Conor's words reflect a general feeling in the Occupy London camp outside St Paul's cathedral that this is a Church that has lost its way. The protest was never aimed at Christianity; it was intended to challenge the corporate greed of big business but, say the protesters, the cathedral's reaction has highlighted just how pervasive the problem is in our society.

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