Fandom as Substitute Religion

Sep 9, 2024 by

By Mike Mitchell, Juicy Ecumenism. The kind of fandom in question does not ask us to latch ourselves to anything outside ourselves. It is pure self-indulgence, demanding nothing from a person that isn’t fun and reassuring. On the other...

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Flourishing at the End of Life

Sep 8, 2024 by

by Xavier Symons, John Rhee and Tyler VanderWeele, Public Discourse: Dying is part of life, but most people dread their final days. The end of life, which often takes the form of protracted terminal illness, can involve significant pain...

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Cathedral and choir schools will be ‘severely affected’ by Labour’s private school tax raid

Sep 8, 2024 by

from Christian Today: The Bishop of Southwark has said he is “deeply concerned” about the impact of the government’s plans to remove a VAT exemption from private schools. The proposals were debated in the House of Lords...

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Will the Church in Wales be extinct in 15 years?

Sep 8, 2024 by

from Anglican Futures: The Church in Wales may be small (a weekly attendance of 25,000 and falling) but as this blog has noted in the past it seems determined to shrink further.   The Church Growth Modelling website predicts that it might...

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Islamist terrorism is staging a barbaric comeback

Sep 8, 2024 by

by Tom Slater, spiked: Islamist terror has returned to Europe. But in truth, it never really went away. On 23 August, the German city of Solingen was the scene of an all too familiar and barbaric crime. Issa Al H, a suspected member of...

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Free speech is under threat as never before in the world’s democracies

Sep 8, 2024 by

by Andrew Neil, Daily Mail: If we lose it, we won’t easily get it back. We live in an age of authoritarians who have not only halted, so far, the spread of democracy in the 21st century but whose totalitarian methods and attitudes...

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BBC ‘breached guidelines 1,500 times’ over Israel-Hamas war

Sep 8, 2024 by

by Camilla Turner, Telegraph: Coverage was heavily biased against Israel, report into corporation’s output finds. The BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war, a damning...

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Feral children and their feckless parents are leaving the rest of us living in fear

Sep 8, 2024 by

by Camilla Tominey, Telegraph: A new rot has set in since lockdown – as the rise in crimes committed by young people shows. The start of the new term inevitably flooded social media feeds with charming pictures of the children of the UK...

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Paul’s prayer for the persecuted

Sep 8, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, TCW: CHRISTIANS need the spiritual and moral strength for which the Apostle Paul prayed in the Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, whatever the political conditions of the nations in which they find themselves. Paul, a...

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Sandanista govt dissolves Episcopal Diocese of Nicaragua and seizes its assets

Sep 7, 2024 by

By George Conger, Anglican Ink. The Nicaraguan government has dissolved the Episcopal Diocese of Nicaragua, and will confiscate its assets. On 29 August 2024 the Ministry of the Interior (MINT) published the names of 92 churches and...

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