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Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start. It's the better-off who benefit most from t (Read More)
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The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg with a friend who is also an Anglican priest. Opened in 2007, this $25m museum's mission is not only (Read More)
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He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he (Read More)
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Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, Robert Crumb confirms that God is a hell of a lot less fun than Fritz the Cat. "The first book of th (Read More)
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The Anglican church should no longer put the virtue of uniformity above the need to challenge prejudice and suffering"United we stand, divided we fall" is a common saying. Likewise there is a Japanese proverb "A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle."To stay united (or appear to be), members of families, re (Read More)
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Converts to Rome cannot pick and choose, says Vincent Nichols, as Rowan Williams and pope prepare to meetAnglicans should not become Catholic to protest against female clergy or sexual ethics, the archbishop of Westminster said today, as he warned traditionalists against adopting a "pick and choose" approach to the religion (Read More)
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Subscribe here for your own daily copy delivered to your inboxTHIERRY ENNUIThe Fiver has always prided itself on its highly-evolved damage limitation skills. The excuse about having just sort of forgotten about the litre of Irish Knights tucked inside its specially-adapted sleeve at the supermarket exit gate. The wheedling (Read More)
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Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of 'the new religion of climate alarmism'A Tory MEP has accused the Church of England of having "abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the new religion of climate alarmism instead".Roger Helmer, who resigned from the Tory frontbench in Europe wh (Read More)
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Both main approaches to church unity have failed. Perhaps what we need is a flow chartAmong the stranger Anglican blogs out there is The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley, which has published a flow chart that will be helpful to anyone trying to understand the choices facing the Anglican clergy right now.I feel we should star (Read More)
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Boiling the complex issue of population decline down to selfishness, as the chief rabbi has done, is absurdThe question: Are we too selfish to survive?The chief rabbi's comments were the most muddled of any recent religious leader. His speech managed to combine so many problematic statements and assumptions that it is hard (Read More)
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The Association of Chief Police Officers' proposed register of domestic violence perpetrators is welcome and long overdue (Report, 17 November). The home affairs select committee found in our domestic violence report last year that there was no "single risk tool" available to all agencies which have a part to play in keepin (Read More)
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A new book claims the Top Gun star had a tendency to chat to ashtrays, bottles and other inanimate objectsJust a teeny tiny amount of space left to say, hey, guess what? Tom Cruise? He's a bit fricking weird! Yuhdoansay.In Blown For Good, the latest book by an escapee from the Galactic Confederacy, AKA Scientology, Marc Hea (Read More)