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I’m not uncomfortable about people talking about faith. I am uncomfortable about defining your politics by faith, and I don’t. . . I don’t take my Christianity and say everyone’s got to believe what I do Ed Davey, leader of…

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We might think that our society is becoming more and more polarised. . . But on Saturday’s train, full of passengers from all walks of life, background, cultures, and ages, there was one common enemy: the attacker Chine…

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. . . because of God, love wins, no matter what can be done or said to control or stop it, no matter how fancy the theology to disguise a prejudice Mark Oakley, Dean of Southwark, sermon preached in Southwark Cathedral, 26…

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Ironically, churches are so embedded in our story and landscape, we tend to take them for granted. Worse still, when their very existence is endangered, we’ve hardly bothered to notice Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph, 21…

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Higher walls and more guards are sadly necessary — but they resemble our hospital in the ravine. They treat the symptoms of antisemitism, not the illness itself. Unless we face the roots of this hatred with honesty and…

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Do what’s hard: talk about God. An archbishop whose presence is a balm and who can beguile us with God might just turn heads and heal hearts Daniel French, The Spectator website, 4 October   We should spare a prayer for those…

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You are not alone and are not expected to be the saviour of the Church of England. Only the good Lord can do that George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, 28 September   There needs to be…

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I forgive him because it was what Christ did and it is what Charlie would do Erika Kirk, speaking at a memorial service for her late husband, Charlie Kirk, 21 September   We’ll never defeat hate with more hate; we can only…