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The rising cost of energy is the price of Europe’s liberty

August 27, 2022
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The energy regulator Ofgem has hiked the price cap on household bills by 80%, meaning the average bill will rise from £1,971 to £3,549 a year from October. The average bill is for 2.4 people living in a three-bed semi:…

International Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference 2022

July 3, 2022
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The inaugural International Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference takes place in London this coming week, on 5-6th July, under the aegis of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).…

Baby P and the legal politics of parole which shames his memory

May 10, 2022
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Baby P was Peter Connelly. He was born on 1st March 2006, and died on 3rd August 2007. That's him above. A lovely little blond haired, blue-eyed baby boy, reaching…

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World Council of Churches must expel the Russian Orthodox Church

April 25, 2022
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What kind of Christian conscience can slaughter a young mother and her three-month-old baby one day, and pop off to church, light a candle, and praise Jesus the next? Ukrainian…

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Praying for Putin’s downfall, doom and destruction

March 28, 2022
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There was a prayer for Ukraine in church on Sunday: "Lord, we pray for peace in Ukraine, and that Putin would see sense." That was it. There was no mention…

Why doesn’t Patriarch Kirill excommunicate Putin forthwith?

March 22, 2022
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In the flaming ruins and rubble of Mariupol, dogs are eating people and people are eating dogs. Bloodied corpses line the streets, some covered with dusty sheets for burial shrouds,…

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Welby and Kirill demand peace in Ukraine (but woolliness won’t stop war)

March 18, 2022
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The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Patriarch of Moscow have had a video conference in which they both agreed on the need for disciples of Jesus to be peacemakers, and…

Patriarch Kirill: Ukraine is paying for its Gay Pride

March 7, 2022
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We know that Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow, doesn't recognise the His Beatitude Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine, and that he wants the schismatic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine to…

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Ukraine: no grave is large enough to contain the spirit of freedom

March 3, 2022
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President Putin is turning cities to rubble, making life unlivable, and bombing civilians to kingdom come. The sacred Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial to the 33,000 Ukrainian Jews who were summarily…

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The Prime Minister partied while clergy lamented

January 13, 2022
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"Could the Minister advise those of us on these benches," ventured Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds, "how we should respond to clergy who took an enormous personal toll in having…

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Rev’d Will Pearson-Gee: “I am not going to close our services”

December 31, 2021
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As 2021 draws to a close, with Covid mutations multiplying, millions isolating, thousands dying, gas prices soaring, inflation pressing, poverty increasing, Putin and Xi agitating, and the Church of England…

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Martyn Percy empathises with Holocaust victims, and a conspiracy emerges

November 15, 2021
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We are supposed to believe that a Christ Church undergraduate was casually surveying the website of the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy, as students at the University of Oxford regularly…

Hardship of Life

October 25, 2021
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Meet Munzir al-Nazzal and his five-year-old son Mustafa. They live in Reyhanli, in the Turkish province of Hatay, at the border with Syria. Munzir lost his right leg as he…

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Former archbishops split on assisted suicide, and there’s no Anglican via media

September 13, 2021
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In the red corner is George, Lord Carey of Clifton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1991-2002. He favours the legalisation of assisted suicide (or assisted dying, if you prefer) because "there is…

Myanmar nun offers her life to protect protesting civilians

March 7, 2021
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Unarmed civilians are being arrested, tortured, or summarily shot and killed. Children are being slapped, teenagers beaten with batons, and the elderly maimed with rubber bullets. People have become police…

Covid: God’s judgement upon Brexit?

December 21, 2020
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"We have sown the Brexit wind, and now reap the Covid whirlwind", tweeted John Milbank ("Theologian, philosopher, poet, political theorist"). "Past generations would have seen divine judgement manifest here", he…

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As a child drowns in the Channel, the Bishop of Dover demands action

August 20, 2020
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"What are we waiting for?" asked the Rt Rev'd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover. "Our children are being washed up on our beaches," she lamented, after the body of a…

‘I am the resurrection and the life’

April 12, 2020
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No matter how many times this day comes and goes; no matter how many years of how many decades and centuries Easter Sunday passes with a myriad of sorrows or…

Coronavirus and the Kingdom of God: we reap what we sow

April 3, 2020
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This is the 10th contribution to His Grace’s emergency team ministry during the coronavirus pestilence. It comes from Graham Wood, an ex-police local government officer, now retired, and author of…

The Plague of Cyprian

March 26, 2020
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This is the seventh contribution to His Grace’s emergency team ministry during the coronavirus pestilence. It comes from Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage and Father of the Church, from his work…