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Unitarian takes Tate to court over 'religious discrimination'

Anthony Padgett's employment tribunal case alleging religious discrimination on the part of Tate Modern was heard in London today. Our news story is now online. My favourite part is where he refuses to swear on just one holy book. Being a Unitarian, he asks to swear on them all. At the end of the post, there's another video of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem last year to pray for the success of his case.

Hundreds queue for 'Erotic Church Service'

Yes, this really is a picture from a recent liturgy celebrated at a Protestant church in Cologne, as reported here. Thanks to Chris Gillibrand for his translation, which I've shamelessly lifted from his CathCon blog. I think this is a first for the Protestant Church anywhere. What a relief that it should have happened in Germany, and not the US or the UK. Is this Church of Carthusians part of one of the numerous Protestant assemblies worldwide that are 'in bed with' with the CofE or TEC, so to speak? Preliminary enquiries with the CofE in London suggest they think not, because they're not part of the EKD. However, Chris's own clarification, that I've put at the end, indicates otherwise. Meanwhile, read on for Chris's translation or the original in Kölner Stadt-Anzeigerbelow. (Update: CofE insists are definitely neither 'in bed with' nor 'in communion with' this lot. See end for their statement.)

Chocolate Jesus

With only two days of Lent left, this may be enough to make you give up chocolate all year round. This statue of Jesus, cast in chocolate, was meant to be in New York's Lab Gallery this Good Friday but protest from Christian groups called off the exhibit.