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Posted in Education, Existential, Government, Morality, Religion on May 25th, 2008
What would you do with £1.5 million?
I suppose if I were given it to spend just on myself and not feel bound to give it away, I could quite happily think of things. In order of priority - a new phone with all the latest gizmos (yes, I really am that shallow), a visit [...]
Posted in Education, Faith, Human Rights, Religion on May 16th, 2008
In America, apparently, many people say they want it but can’t get it, and in the UK many don’t want it, but can’t get rid of it - god in school, that is.
As a school pupil I had to endure it every day - the compulsory hymn and routine prayers. Just imagine it, 600 [...]
Posted in Isolation, Religion, Society, Television on May 4th, 2008
Dr Who has been summonsed in an attempt to ward off the imminent threat of extermination.
The Telegraph carried a story today about a conference which was held last week in order to revitalize the Church of England. Doctor Who has caught the attention of Anglican leaders, who are encouraging clergy to study the science fiction [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion on May 1st, 2008
Why is sexism still tolerated within the Anglican church?
In a hard-hitting article in The Guardian, Theo Hobson takes the Church of England to task for its ‘wet clerics’ and their failure to carry through a reformation of the church in relation women. He laments the fact that division and injustice are being perpetuated because [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Politics, Religion on Mar 16th, 2008
It took an arcane debate to the hasten the end of an arcane law, but that is what happened in the House of Lords on Wednesday 5 March when an amendment to repeal the UK blasphemy law was finally passed (148 votes to 87). The Christian tenets of the Church of England will no [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Feb 4th, 2008
I can understand a sentimental attachment to the notion of unity. What I find difficult is the concept that the appearance of unity must be preserved at all costs, even when it doesn’t exist.
The Anglican church is tearing itself apart over the issue of homosexuality, and at present, church politicians are burning candles at [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Religion on Jan 28th, 2008
Senior clerics within the Church of England are protesting that trainee priests will be brought to their knees because of UK government plans to reform university funding and raise tuition fees for second degrees.
Three quarters of the 1,500 students training to become Church of England clergy at any one time are taking second university [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Religion on Dec 23rd, 2007
It’s shocking to think that even the ‘respectable’ broadsheet newspapers can tell a blatant lie.
Posted in Isolation, Morality, Psychology, Religion, Society on Dec 4th, 2007
‘Shunning’ is a good word. I like ’shunning’. It has something solid about it and sounds like what it does.
There was a lot of shunning this week in a very interesting article about morality in Time Magazine. Jeffrey Kluger argues that there are one or more of three main factors operating behind [...]
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