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Christians must speak out about anti-Semitism in churches
As a non-Jewish Christian, I have to be honest and speak out about the anti-Semitism that I have frequently witnessed in Christian churches. I wrote a comment piece about this issue for this week’s Church Times. The article is copied below. It is much easier to condemn something if we think that we are not […]
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"This is a dark, disturbing book that transports the reader to 1665, London during the bubonic plague. It is a place of fear, filth, pestilence, and death and a time and location where no one wants to find themselves. The cast of characters is mostly "
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"VL Valentine's historical mystery is one that resonates uncomfortably with our Covid-19 contemporary realities, set in the 17th century Restoration period of 1665, a time of the Great Plague in London. Most of the well off have fled the filth, stink "
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“the Christian bishop Gregory of Nyssa (331-395) argued that it was as acceptable to call God either ‘mother’ or ‘father’, insisting that: ‘Both terms mean the same, because the divine is neither male nor female’.6”
― The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
― The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
“to ask simply whether religion is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ is to miss the point. Religion serves as a reason for war and peace, love and hatred, dialogue and narrow-mindedness. Religion can be used for many purposes, just as science can be used to develop life-saving vaccines or to build sophisticated weaponry. We may as well ask whether science is a good or bad thing, or cookery, poetry or politics. The ‘goodness’ or ‘badness’ of religion depends on the ways in which it is used, applied and lived out.”
― The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
― The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
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