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Just before dawn here. I got out of bed about an hour ago and did some preparation with the turkey. It’s still too early to put it in the oven. I’ve lined out the roasting tin with foil, got the stuffing ready, and a couple of hours from now I’ll put it all together. I [...]
Republican Presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, believes that Jesus would support capital punishment because he didn’t ask for clemency on the cross.
We should be getting used to having madmen running our countries by now. At a Republican Governors Association Dinner, Huckabee took to the stage and almost immediately his cell phone rang. He took the phone [...]
The British Blogs site aggregates the feed content of a variety of UK based blogs, listing truncated posts shortly after they have appeared on their original sites. Around 100 categories range widely between soccer, film, food, satire, books, politics, music, humour and religion, to name but a few.
If you click on your chosen category in [...]
The UK government’s Department for Children, Schools and Families has proposed the expansion of the number of faith schools. This has worried the teachers’ unions and should give the rest of us cause for concern.
Faith schools, the government tell us, do not only offer religious parents the assurance that their offspring will be similarly prejudiced to themselves, they also offer exchange visits, studies in comparative religion and outreach programmes.
But instead of studying with other children of different faiths and cultures, instead of experiencing each day the similarities and differences between them, the pupils at these schools will be introduced to other faiths as part of a curriculum.
The cohesion of our future communities can only be undermined if these proposals are adopted.
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