Earlier this year, the first-ever discovery of a British crucifixion victim, dating back to the Roman occupation, was announced by archaeologists. The skeleton of a man in his late 20s or early 30s, which had a large iron nail driven through the right heel bone (the calcaneous), was found just outside the town of Fenstanton, near Cambridge, which was a…
In March, we hosted an online series of Tuesday evening conversations, focusing on four of the great Questions of our Times. The series of free-to-view webinars explored some of today’s big questions with leaders in the fields of physics, astrophysics, social robotics, and in the religion and science debate. The videos for all the webinars are […]
The second series of Questions of our Times, our four webinar evenings which begin on 1 March, is hosted by Major Nigel Bovey, a Salvation Army officer, journalist, and musician. He will be asking our guests his own questions, plus the questions of the audience, so we thought we’d turn the tables and ask him […]
Over the past 150 years, Jerusalem has become one of the most excavated and archaeologised (if there is such a word) cities in the world, and with good reason. The city is holy to three of the world’s faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – and is famous not only as the place where Jesus died, […]
