Exploring life with Brian

I love how Brian McLaren explains what it means to be a Christian. See if you think this makes as much sense as I do:

Red Nose Church

Salisbury Cathedral has joined in the spirit of Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. The Cathedral sported a 404ft red nose and all this week and its historic spire has turned red each night to help raise money for the charity. And there’s me thinking it was only what goes on inside some of our churches that I find funny!

To support Comic Relief go to http://www.comicrelief.com/

From Jesus to the Ripper

I am a fan of the author David Peace and last night’s Red Riding 1980 on Channel 4, took us through his fictionalised account of the horrific events of the 70’s and into 1980 when The Yorkshire Ripper exerted his reign of terror over women across Yorkshire. Typically for Peace ,the focus was less on the Ripper himself and more on his highly fictionalised account of police corruption and brutality which hampered an effective enquiry. The drama painted a depressingly bleak picture with no respite from the murder, brutality,misery and corruption- dark,gripping and mesmerising stuff. Well, towards the end of the episode “Peter” was finally caught and taken down to the cells for questioning. Imagine my surprise to find the most notorious mass murder of recent times being played by Joseph Mawle- the actor who made such a highly acclaimed job of playing Jesus in last year’s BBC Easter drama The Passion. It made my think again of  Joseph’s  understated and dramatic portrayal of Christ, so I thought I’d remind you all to watch this again at some stage during Easter.

Find out more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thepassion/

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