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| Former ‘This Morning’ presenter, Fern Britton, has revealed she struggled with her faith after failing three IVF attempts. She explained that her previously strong faith was shaken while she was longing for a family. She said: ‘At that point, I just said to God, 'I don't believe in you anymore, so I won't have to worry about my conscience or judging right from wrong'. It turned out I could only keep that up for half a day.’ | |
| What famous people say | Bible Society (Premier) - 8th January 2016 |
| Westlife singer Shane Filan has explained how his faith in God helped him when he was declared bankrupt in 2012. The Catholic popstar said he couldn’t have got through the difficult time if it hadn’t been for God. | |
| What famous people say | Christianity - November 2015 |
| In a wide-ranging interview Chris Evans said he talked to the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, about answers to ‘the whole God question’. He says: ‘I definitely believe in something because where does it all come from? But I don’t know what that was and wanted to go and try and find out. Just as there is no scientific formula for love... how do I know I love my son? I just know. And faith is the same thing’. | |
| What famous people say | Bible Society - 16th October 2015 |
| Germaine Greer has criticised Elton John and David Furnish for naming David as the 'mum' on their sons’ birth certificates. She says this demonstrates how motherhood has been emptied of its meaning. She blames the fertility industry for manipulating “the process of conception”, convincing women to donate eggs by offering them discounted IVF treatments. Now, motherhood in our society means nothing more than being a “genetic mother who supplies eggs". | |
| What famous people say | Christian Concern - 30th May 2015 |
| The leader of the Liberal Democrats told Nick Ferrari, on Classic FM, that he has never been a firm atheist. He said: ‘I'm actually not and never have been a rigid atheist. I was asked once, do I know whether God exists or not, and I'm actually quite agnostic. I don't know.’ Nick Clegg’s wife is a practising Catholic and his children are being raised in the faith. | |
| What famous people say | Bible Society - 1st May 2015 |
| Appearing on Desert Island Discs, Theresa May said she was deeply influenced by her father, an Anglican priest. She is also a practising Anglican but said she doesn’t flaunt her faith. | |
| What famous people say | Bible Society - 28th November 2014 |
| During a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Pope Francis said the continent felt ‘less and less a protagonist’. He called for action over the deaths of thousands of migrants who have drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean saying, ‘we cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast graveyard.’ He added: ‘Despite talk of human rights, too many people are treated as objects in Europe. Upholding the dignity of the person means acknowledging the value of the gift of human life.’ | |
| What famous people say | Bible Society - 28th November 2014 |
| Prince Charles has said Muslim leaders must warn their followers about the "indescribable tragedy" of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. | |
| What famous people say | Sky News - 5th November 2014 |
| Christian Bale talks about playing Moses in Hollywood movie When Christian Bale first talked with the Director, Ridley Scott, about playing the role of Moses in Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, he went home and rented Monty Python's Life of Brian. He also read the Pentateuch and said the big lesson he took from his reading ‘was how complex a character he [Moses] was. He really was a very troubled and tumultuous man.’ | |
| What famous people say | Bible Society - 10th October 2014 |
| In an interview published to mark his first anniversary as pontiff, the Pope said that he dislikes the media painting a picture of him as a celebrity and a star. Francis told Italian daily Corriere della: ‘Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me’. | |
| What famous people say | Daily Telegraph 5 March 2014, via Bible Society |
| The film actor, Matthew McConaughey, 44, thanked God profusely after winning the best actor Oscar for his role as Ron Woodroof in the film ‘Dallas Buyer's Club’. He said: ‘I want to thank God, 'cause that's who I look up to. He's graced my life with opportunities that I know is not of my hand or any other human hand’. | |
| What famous people say | The Christian Post 3 March 2014, via Bible Society |
| High-profile atheist Richard Dawkins has described himself as a ‘cultural Anglican’ in an interview with The Spectator magazine. The evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion was speaking at the lunch of his new memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, which traces his early life and scientific career. ‘I suppose I’m a cultural Anglican and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green,’ he said, admitting that he had ‘a certain love for it’. Dawkins also said he thought people should be educated in the Bible in order to understand history, and that not all religious people should be put in the same category as suicide bombers. | |
| What famous people say | Christianity, November 2013 |
| Olympic sprint champion Linford Christie has expressed his “deepest regret” for crashing head-on into a taxi carrying a newlywed couple while driving the wrong way down a major road. The 100m gold medallist at the 1992 Barcelona Games described the accident as “one of the worst moments in my life” after he was disqualified for 15 months and fined £5,000 for careless driving. Christie, who was also ordered to pay £1,000 prosecution costs, was cleared of the more serious charge of dangerous driving. | |
| What famous people say | The Sentinel July 22 2011 |
| “God is in my life. I don’t hide from that. The search has been on since the 1960s. I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto it, thank God.” The former Beatle Ringo Starr. | |
| What famous people say | Third Way July/August 2011 |
| Faith is a “civilising force”, the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said. While launching his faith foundation in the Ukraine, Blair told an audition of 400 students in Kiev about the value of improving relations between different faiths. Echoing Gandhi, Blair said: “in the end things can change but not unless there are people committed to doing it. It is your generation who will make the difference. If you don’t think the world you live in is perfect get involved and make it better.” | |
| What famous people say | Church Of England June 10, 2011 |
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