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Leader comment: Cold comfort
NEWSPAPERS relish headlines about cold weather, especially at this time of year: “Met Office issues severe weather warning”; “Snow could force schools to close”. For those attending Sunday worship, clad in winter coats, the…
Leader comment: Category error? What is, or isn’t, a safeguarding matter
WHILE attention has naturally focused on her recommendation for independent structures, the “most egregious” issue reported by Professor Alexis Jay after an extensive consultation on the state of Church of England…
Leader comment: Whom to trust?
“DO YOU want people to trust you?” “Was it a lie. . .?” “You misled people. . .” Laura Kuenssberg’s questions in a BBC interview on Sunday were as much about the Chancellor’s character as about the details of the Budget.…
Leader comment: Hungry nation
TWENTY-FIVE years after the foundation of the Salisbury Foodbank — a charitable venture that would evolve into the Trussell Trust (now simply Trussell) — foodbanks have become a staple in the UK. To start with, most were…
Leader comment: A powerful — and overdue — show of support for Palestinian Christians
IN OCTOBER 2023, Palestinian Anglicans living in the West Bank wrote of their acute distress in the light of the then Archbishop of Canterbury’s response to the unfolding conflict in Gaza. They wrote of being “utterly…
Leader comment: Festive strain
IT MAY be only mid-November, but the Christmas shopping season is well and truly under way. The supermarkets are full of seasonal food; TV adverts are running on a loop. Black Friday, imported to the UK in 2010 by Amazon from…
Leader comment: In service
THE knife attacks on the 18.25 LNER train from Doncaster to King’s Cross on Saturday have horrified all right-thinking people. Reports of passengers hiding in toilets and the buffet carriage, as a man wielding a blade went on…
Next in Gaza — and around the world
AT THE time of writing, the ceasefire in Gaza is barely holding. The pause in the general fighting means that the agony for most of the Israeli hostage families has ended, and the bombardment of the people of Gaza is at…
First, read — and then mark, learn, and inwardly digest
THE Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, is on a mission to get children and young people reading. “Reading holds the key to so much of children’s education; so the decline in reading for pleasure among young people…
Leader comment: Free spirits: liturgical anarchy?
THE use of unauthorised texts for the eucharist is not confined to new worshipping communities, a new report from Cranmer Hall observes: “It is common to find Anglican churches in the evangelical tradition which hold…
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