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ActsFourThirtyFour
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A modern, liberal take on Anglicanism and Politics in the UK and worldwide, bringing Christian Socialism into the heart of current debates in the Church and in Politics.
Recent Posts
Not good but better
Excuse me for writing again, but I have been a little surprised by the innaccurate reporting of the Pope's speech to the Curia a few days ago. It was not a great speech, it seemed to be based on wonky science much closer to prejudice than reason,...
Intolerance
Truly one of the most inaccurately used phrases in the English lexicon must be "Christians believe..." It so often prefixes a statement of something I don't believe in, for example in Alexander Chancellor's column in tod...
"After Rome"
I'm not a big Boris fan (by a long shot) but his new BBC series 'After Rome' is exceptionally good, you can catch it on the BBC's iPlayer if you're not in the UK. For those of you not in the know Boris Johnson is the (fairly) rece...
Song and Pain
By a not very well known war poet: Song and Pain Out of my sorrow have I made these songs,Out of my sorrow; Though somewhatof the making's eager painFrom Joy did borrow. Someday, I trust,God's purpose of Pain for m...
Literature in a Time of Disbelief - a talk by Lord Harries
At Lord Harries' (former Bishop of Oxford) lecture to Gresham College this afternoon he spoke about the different challenges that atheist novelists and playwrights pose to Christianity. It was a great talk, the peer is obviously a very erudite re...
Great St Mary's, Cambridge
Great St Mary's, CambridgeOriginally uploaded by gb332An evening picture of a powerful Church, built from the bottom up in the Perpendicular style, with great galleries added in the 18th Century. Great St Mary's, the university church, is an attracti...

