Sacred Space

November 2014 Pulse Almost sixty years ago, the Romanian philosopher Mircea Elaide perceptively noted that certain physical spaces in many traditional religions are regarded as sacred. However, modernity with its corrosive secularism has robbed us of the sacramental...

The Rise of the Machines

November 2014 Pulse The title of this article is inspired by the third instalment of the wildly successful Terminator franchise directed by Jonathan Mostow, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger starred (for the last time) as the humanoid whose mission is to protect John...

Women In Ministry

October 2014 Pulse On 14 July this year, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women to become bishops. This decision, which was made some twenty years after the Anglican Church ordained its first women priests in 1992, has finally and completely...

Techno Sapiens?

October 2014 Pulse José Padiha’s recent stylish ‘reboot’ of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 B-Grade movie Robocop is perhaps one of the more successful remakes in this genre. To be sure, Padiha and his screenwriter Joshua Zetumer have much more material to work with than...

Religious Kitsch

September 2014 Pulse In his insightful book entitled, Contending for the Faith, Ralph Wood, Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University describes a sweatshirt on sale at an annual Christian Book Fair designed by a Christian T-Shirt company called Living...