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A Eucharist on the Moon: Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 Regret - Professor Alec Ryrie

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Alec Ryrie


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3.05


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25 April 2016

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19 November 2025


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Years after Buzz Aldrin celebrated his communion on the Moon, he wondered whether he had been right to do it live via televised NASA broadcast.

This is an extract from the full-length lecture by Professor Alec Ryrie, “What Would Jesus Do? Christian Culture Wars in the Modern West”: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/what-would-jesus-do-christian-culture-wars-in-the-modern-west

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