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    Christmas or Christ mass: What does Christmas mean to you?

    Josie Nasmyth-Miller With recent tragic events, such as the Bondi Beach Massacre, which targeted a Hanukkah celebration and the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, it would be easy to add Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, more commonly known as Tommy Robinson, and his ‘Unite for Christ this Christmas’ campaign to...
  • Crystal Palace’s FA Cup Triumph: A Tale of Christianity, Collectiveness, and Sporting Unity

    Charlie Wood Crystal Palace lifted their first-ever major trophy after inching past Manchester City 1-0 in the FA Cup Final, capping off an impressive season that once threatened regression in league placement. Eberechi Eze’s winning goal in the 16th minute sent the Palace fans into jubilant celebrations. Yet on...
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    Reclaiming our year 2 module ‘Chaucer and his Contemporaries’ back from news outlets

    Amelia Cropley In early October, the Daily Mail took to their Sunday edition Mail on Sunday, to write about one of our university’s second year English modules, ‘Chaucer and his Contemporaries’. The Mail on Sunday surprisingly requested information using Freedom of Information laws and found it necessary to speak...
  • How It Went Down: Notts PPE Society’s Westboro Baptist Church Event Cancellation

    Last month, the University of Nottingham’s Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) society invited a representative from the US-based Westboro Baptist church for an online ‘Q&A’ session. Within days, after sustained student backlash, the society decided to cancel the event....
  • Coming together, Apart: Religious Festivals in Lockdown

    With Easter, Passover and Ramadan commencing, people of faith have been reminded to follow government advice and to celebrate at home. As the good weather is set to continue, religious leaders have been exploring new ways of delivering their sermons online, in an effort to persuade people not to...
  • Has the Church Cancelled Easter?

    Easter is one of the busiest weekends for travel of the year; many families choose to spend this time to go on a short break to meet up with other relatives. This year, with social distancing policies being enforced, the world will have to spend the Easter holidays staying...
  • Baroness Cox Address at Christian Union Event

    On Thursday the 20th of February Baroness Caroline Cox gave a keynote evening speech to the Christian Union at the University of Nottingham. The Baroness recounted how she was originally not interested in politics during the time she worked as a nurse, but through gaining a peerage was able...