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Which are the 'Twelve Churches' that made Christianity?
What links the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and St Peter's in Rome, with the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and Canaanland in Ota, Nigeria? These are just some of the churches that Anglican priest and writer the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie has chosen as examples in his new book Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings that made Christianity. The Anglican priest and writer joins Damian Thompson on Holy Smoke to discuss how each Church tells a story but also raises a surprising dilemma for modern believers.
Fergus aims to tell the history of the Churches 'warts and all' and explains why, from Turkey to Britain, modern Christians must be prepared to defend their religious spaces. Plus – why is the Church of England one of the worst offenders when it comes to preservation?
Produced by Patrick Gibbons.
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