The proposed revisions, the most significant since the RCL’s introduction in 1993, aim to address anti-Jewish bias in the Passion from John and the Acts of the Apostles.
For an increasingly secular Britain, the Auckland Project is an important and generous way to introduce people the role in their local history played by the church and the unique religious heritage of the north of England.
We live in the midst of a season of forgetting, a time when the discipline of memory seems too troublesome, too unfashionable, too anachronistic in a time seduced by the new.
Bishop Mark Hollingsworth Jr.: “Anti-Semitism is anathema to Christian faith. We are disciples of Jesus, a Jewish teacher to whom we refer in our own scripture as rabbi.”
