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Article: Oasis of peace in the Bullring; The Bullring has seen its first Christmas and the start of its first New Year sales with shoppers flocking to the complex. In the midst of the bustling shopping centre is the peaceful oasis of St Martin-in-the-Bullring church. Religious Affairs Reporter Emma Pinch spoke to the man who has steered it through the development.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- January 2, 2004
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Byline: Emma Pinch
I t stands at the crossroads between old and new, rich and poor, the worship of money and the riches of heaven.
It is as it always has been. St Martin-in-the-Bullring church has been cleaned up and modernised, but in many ways it is more like the parish church of 1,000 years ago than it ever has been in its recent history.
No longer cut off from the city, the church offers a sanctuary both to shoppers and traders as well as the poor and dispossessed.
Canon Adrian Newman, aged 44, came to St Martin's from Sheffield in ...