Hints and tips:
...We could get quite a lot of this, of course, by simply going to a church, mosque, temple or synagogue. There is overwhelming evidence that religious faith bolsters mental health....
...The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t have an account but a video of him saying “Oh God” at the funeral of the late Queen has been viewed millions of times....
...How in God’s name have American evangelical Christians become so enthralled by Donald Trump?...
...This weekend, millions of people will celebrate Easter. For Christians, the passion of the Christ signifies redemption through divine self-sacrifice....
...Within the Church, Opus Dei members have been in charge of the Vatican’s press office and its bank....
...In that book, compiled in Bruges for Count Johann II of Oettingen, Christ and the apostles surround a youth arrayed in velvet and furs....
...Donald MacEwan, the university chaplain, articulate and clever, says the church to which he has given his life is “increasingly not part of the society. Belief in God is shrinking.”...
...a church on the site to replace a pagan temple....
...At the heart of the Christmas story is an odd detail that is often missed. At the birth of Christ, two groups are present — shepherds and kings....
...Adding to the incongruity of Killer Mike’s presence in this unexciting suburban town on the edge of London is the venue for his gig — an Anglican church with a flag of St George flapping stiffly from a pole...
...For centuries, biblical exegesis has tried to explain away the Song’s naked eroticism as an extended metaphor for God’s love of Israel or Christ’s love for the church....
...Initially based in a Chicago church, they were famed on the gospel circuit as “God’s greatest hitmakers”....
...the very hour of Christ’s coming.”...
...Church College (model for Hogwarts’ Great Hall)....
...While Saint Veronica is not named in the gospels, the legend of her wiping Jesus’s face on his way to be crucified is one of the 14 stages in the Stations of the Cross, a series of images that adorns many...
...In this scenario, the apparitions were a kind of last hurrah of the church, in retreat in the face of secular modernising forces, questioning the laws and customs governing illegitimacy, marriage, birth...
...In The Gospel of Orla by Northern Irish poet Eoghan Walls (Seven Stories Press £10.99), Ireland represents the land of the heart’s desire for its 14-year-old heroine, living in Lancashire with her father...
...According to the statistics, God has been dying all my life: in the year I was born, 1955, Gallup surveys showed that nearly half of Americans reported attending church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the...
...Many of the [real-life] survivors still have faith, so their experiences may have pushed them away from the church but not from God. That fascinated me.”...
...We say that it has its own language and its own genre of horror. It can be a temple or a weapon, an agent of fear and shock or delight and beauty....
...sporting a goatee that looked woven from golden thread; like God had spent at least some of day six on iboga....
...; in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who suffered for thee; in the name of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out upon thee and anointed thee.”...
...construction set against accounts of the destruction of a Chicago church in the video “Gone are the Days of Shelter and Martyr”, where melancholy gospel songs accompany the thud of collapsing wooden doors...
...The church of Mater Misericordiae (1956-57) in the Milan suburb of Baranzate is a translucent box of ethereal beauty....
...The play has its origins in an oath the village’s elders swore in 1633: that if God protected them from the plague they would perform the Passion of Christ every 10 years from then on....
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