Reviving interest

Terrorism and fiction are reviving an interest in religion in Britain. An article in the media section of the Observer describes how religious programming is forcing its way into peaktime schedules. The BBC is planning a major series called The Passion about the life of Christ. The first since Lew Grade's Jesus of Nazareth (in which Holby City's Robert Powell played Christ).
The DaVinci Code has also aroused religious passions amongst both the faithful and the sceptics. The book is fiction and according to the critics, the film is a tedious dramatisation of it. But it is already a box office hit.
The people who bring us the Alpha Course are grasping the opportunity to promote their own response to the book. It's worth watching, especially if you want to know why the code is merely fiction and not afraid of the facts about the integrity of the New Testament gospels.