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Christian Life
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Meet the cartoon character that united Germany after the Berlin wall fellThe citizens of the German Democratic Republic used to habitually tune into West German TV despite the risk of being caught doing so. But once a day at (Read More)
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Join a strange safari in the desert hunting, not rare animals, but an equally endangered prize – absolute silenceSeveral times each night I wake up. My first thought is usually that I am getting too old to sleep out, even in (Read More)
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A new film bringing the life of John Keats to the big screen prompts a personal Romantic pilgrimage to RomeThe rose-seller is stalking me. It is a brilliant blue-skied November morning in Rome and I am standing on the Spanish (Read More)
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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 polic (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 itsel (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, (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 sa (Read More)
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The plane, carrying a medical patient and four others, had been unable to refuel due to stormy weatherAn Australian pilot has been hailed as a hero after safely guiding his plane – carrying a medical patient and four others – (Read More)
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If parents wish their children to be brought up as Christians, or, for that matter, atheists, what right do others have to stop them?In their latest poster campaign, Ariane Sherine and members of the British Humanist Associat (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
In his speech to the TUC, Rowan Williams called for 'self-critical awareness and concern for balanced universal welfare'"Without a stable economy, the rest is idle dreaming." So argued Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canter (Read More)
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The worst thing about all this tat was that it was rubbish bought with other people's moneyLast weekend, I spent eight hours at simply the only place to be in Manhattan: the US Marshals Service National Forfeited Jewellery Au (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The chief rabbi is blind to the high price traditional societies often pay for their moral certaintyThe question: Are we too selfish to survive?As a keen shopper, and a childless "non-indigenous" Muslim female living in Londo (Read More)
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The actor Edward Woodward, best known for playing righteous enforcers in Callan, The Equalizer and The Wicker Man, has died at the age of 79. We look back over his careerChristopher Lee and Britt Ekland had the splashier role (Read More)
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A fertile society is an energetic and resourceful one, and we must beware of being pessimistic about the problems of populationThe question: Are we to selfish to survive?I am instinctively pro-natalist: I am always pleased to (Read More)
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Exclusive - the raw, unexpurgated first draft of Sarah Palin's biography Going Rogue, complete with author's notes[Sarah, this looks great. But we've noted a few questions and comments in this draft that we'd like to get your (Read More)
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Wilton's Music Hall, LondonGate, LondonSoho, LondonTruth can be subtler than fiction. What is so involving about verbatim theatre is the sense of eavesdropping on real voices – belonging, in this case, to people from Burnley, (Read More)
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Immigration means more and more people in the UK do not accept evolution, says former director of education at the Royal Society Michael ReissMass migration has led to a rise in creationist beliefs across Europe, according to (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Can giving to the poor be seen not simply as alleviating the suffering of others, but about receiving a gift in return?Rowan Williams has called for a broadening of the development agenda, so that secular agencies working in (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Our current system is doomed. But 1989 gives us hope at least that we have the power of self-liberationThe question: Was 1989 a good year for humanity?"We are the people" – this was one of the slogans shouted in the big demon (Read More)
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Jewish leaders too often lose their moral compass over Israel, but we ourselves are to blame if we do not hold them to accountThere was something both homely and understatedly heroic about the Guardian front page photo of Ang (Read More)
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