Christianity

St. Mary’s Church stands at the edge of a forest. A path goes from the wrought iron gate through the old graveyard of leaning headstones and into the pines. Sunlight glitters on the surface of the lake that lies behind the trees; a lake…

Henry Prince was born in 1811 in the city of Bath. His family were well off enough to own property in Jamaica - property which included slaves, as his mother was compensated when slavery was abolished there. His father died when he was…

Kimpa Vita was born in 1684 in the Kingdom of Kongo, which isn’t there any more. The kingdom had been founded some time in the 13th or 14th century and was located south to the Congo river on the western coast of Africa. In the…

Dublin’s Whitefriar Street Church is home to one of the most popular modern Saint’s: Saint Valentine. A shrine dedicated to the Saint has pride of place in the church and his remains are put on display every February 14th, but how though…

Between the divinely inspired chaos roaring across the Middle East and the continuing roll call of the horrific abuses of the organised church across Europe, and Ireland in particular, religion has a bad rap. But in a time when young people…

Basically everyone wants to know the future. Maybe not in small details, like when will I die? Or what will I have for dinner on the 5th of August 2017? Perhaps we don't want to know about what becomes of our relationships and family…

Alan Bennett went to Sunday mass in an actual church and livetweeted the entire event to give the rest of us an inside look at this strange other world. An atheist goes to church: