BBC defends The Goes Wrong Show festive episode after ‘offensive’ Christianity complaints

Titled The Nativity, the BBC‘s festive special of The Goes Wrong Show aired at primetime back on December 22 at 7pm. The half-hour Christmas play saw a handful of amateur performers take to the stage to deliver a take on the classic nativity associated with Christmas Day. However, it’s safe to say the tone of […]

Christianity and conservationism collide in ‘Pangolin’s Puzzle’

Pangolin’s Puzzle is a new mobile game that offers a refreshing approach to the puzzle genre — instead of relying solely on spatial manipulation or number-based solves, it serves up written logic problems. Players manipulate patches of the environment on a grid, building landscapes according to descriptions of how each feature relates to one another. […]

The new Great Schism? What's next for the world of Orthodox Christianity

The Russian Orthodox Church has broken all ties with the See of Constantinople, seen as the center of Orthodox faith, though whether it will continue to be seen as such a center is up for debate. Constantinople’s decision to recognize two breakaway Ukrainian churches has cost it the support of the Moscow Patriarchate, the biggest […]

A millennium of Christianity: What makes Russian Orthodoxy unique?

The faithful in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are marking 1030 years since their ancestors adopted Christianity – the faith that would ultimately become Orthodoxy, made unique by ten centuries of divergence from Western branches. Switching an entire nation’s religion was obviously not a single day’s business – Kievan Rus’, the enormous nation that incorporated parts […]

LibDem leader Tim Farron resigns, says his Christianity made job ‘impossible’

Tim Farron, leader of UK’s third most-popular party, the Liberal Democrats, blamed media scrutiny and intolerance of his Christian faith, as he stepped down from his post in the aftermath of last week’s election. “From the very first day of my leadership, I have faced questions about my Christian faith,” Farron, 47, said in a […]