What does the judge know, after all? In passing sentence on the Edlington boys last week Mr Justice Keith described the case as “exceptional”. But in a speech in Gillingham, David Cameron appeared to suggest that it was anything but.
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The Edlington boys are not beyond redemption
It’s judgment day, the war criminal is being brought to trial. Tony Blair’s appearance at the Chilcot inquiry on Friday is turning into a voyeuristic spectacle, a modern-day equivalent of the public hangings where crowds gathered around the gallows to jeer.
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Chilcot is a stage for Labour’s psychodrama
The horrific pictures on our television screens since the earthquake struck Haiti to its core have struck a chord with us all. They also touched those in the harder, usually more impervious world of business
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Friends, countrymen, lend them your ideas
‘God willing, our raids on you will continue,” said Osama bin Laden — or someone purporting to be him — in a message broadcast on al-Jazeera over the weekend. The blunt message to “Obama from Osama” is intended to reaffirm that, despite Barack Obama’s overtures to the Islamic world, he and his country remain infidels, every bit as evil as they were under George W. Bush
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Al-Qaeda is losing. Prepare for a daring hit
Back in November, the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church published a document called “God’s Renewed Creation: A Call to Hope and Action.” It was essentially an update of an earlier document, a theological statement about environmental concerns but also addressing poverty and proliferation of weapons and violence.
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The Bishop vs the IRD
On December 1, 2009, CBA (which was formerly called the Christian Booksellers Association, back when Christian bookstores sold more books than gifts and other merchandise) asked the Department of Justice to investigate alleged predatory pricing by big-box stores and online retailers that threatens the very existence of the nation’s dwindling number of Christian retailing outlets. On January 7, 2010, Adelle M.
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People of the (Christian) book
A glitch in the “don’t be evil” company’s search engine appeared to censor searches for information about Islam. And after nearly three weeks, the company is finally fixing the problem.
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EXCLUSIVE: Islam Is … Finally Being Fixed on Google (Fox News)
Year after year, America’s cultural conservatives say the same thing after the March for Life in Washington, D.C . All together now: “Where’s the coverage in the mainstream press?
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Abortion issue will not die soon
A Malaysian court on Monday overturned a government ban on a book about Islam, in a decision hailed as a landmark for freedom of speech.
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Malaysian court overturns ban on Islam book (AFP via Yahoo! News)
ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project.
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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com
After 33 years as a Scientologist, the past 13 as the star of Scientology’s recruitment video, Larry Anderson is walking away. He says the church failed to deliver the spiritual gains it promised.
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Star of Scientology recruitment film wants his money back
There was a particular point during my years as a Buddhist when I was struggling with the question whether to give up the vows I had taken as a Buddhist nun and to return to lay life. Aggravating my struggle was the sense that I had somehow irrevocably blown it, that I was hopelessly confused.
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Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul
I want you to meet three of my newest and closest friends. Sophie Sadie and Jack! Yep, we met in the most conspicuous manner. Read the rest at Laced With Grace today and discover how I experience Him in a profound way. You can too
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Oh Here We Go Again. Another Wacky Story.
It concerns me when truth and testimony seem to be separate. For instance: There are some Christians that are very strong on the truth issues relating to Jesus – who He is and what He’s done. They are passionately committed to the truth and will not compromise on it. There are some Christians who have a strong peronal relationship with Jesus. Their testimony is sweet and intimate and personal. They have a deep sense of the love of God and communion with Him
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Truth and Testimony
Mark 16: 15-18 Acts 22: 3-16 or Acts 9: 1-22/ Ps 117: 1-2 Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. (Mark 16:15) Our strifes and trials when we preach Are but a light cross that we bear, There’ll be more souls that we can reach If Christ’s Good News is ours to share. Jesus said to His
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The Feast of St. Paul’s Conversion
When a car full of boy-racers overtakes an older, sputtering jalopy, onlookers give the slower vehicle barely a glance, though the racers themselves might offer it a finger-related gesture. Given that today’s boy-racers happen to be China, and that their super-charged economy has defied the global recession and is about to surpass Japan as the world’s second-biggest, the focus on the overtakers may be understandable. But it is regrettable.
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Don’t write Japan off. The giant is stirring
Last week three criminal convictions provoked uncomfortable meditations on parenthood. Unlike David Cameron, I have no taste for diagnosing Broken Britain: the Edlington horror displayed only the familiar curse of drunken, drugged parents and the equally familiar inadequacy of some local authorities (if you must draw a governance moral out of Doncaster, it is that calling yourself an “inter-agency forum” and adopting a trendy present-participle — as in “Safeguarding Children Board” — doesn’t necessarily make you efficient.) The upbringing of the boy torturers in South Yorkshire should certainly make us think about the human truths of parenthood; but so should the other two cases.
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The moral is: question your motives, parents
Perversely, the charmless, spirit-lowering photographs of street furniture seen in this paper recently would be anathema to any competent Fleet Street pictures editor – which is precisely the reason The Times should publish them. We should force ourselves to look.
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Why do we put up with this plastic plague?
Like an exhausted runner at the very back of a marathon race, Britain tomorrow should finally stagger across the line that marks the end of the “Great Recession”. Although the news will be welcome, it is hardly unexpected. After all, every other major economy started recovering months ago
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How to stop Britain going bust again
I was one of the first English journalists to report the strength of Ronald Reagan in the presidential primaries of 1980; I was also one of the first to forecast that Barack Obama would defeat Hillary Clinton in the primaries and go on to win the presidency. In both cases, I based my judgment on the strength of the relationship between the candidate and the party rank and file; the close leadership relationship is the road to power
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Obama is busy making powerful enemies
Trust me, I am aware that the Eastern Orthodox Churches have some rites that are unique and, to the eyes of outsiders, may seem a bit on the wild side. I mean, watch the video attached to this post, which focuses on traditions — I stress that they are what we call “small-t traditions” — observed by some Orthodox believers during the recent “blessing of the waters” celebrations of Theophany (called Epiphany in the West). It is one thing to see people jumping into blessed waters as they observe these traditions in, well, South Florida
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‘Orthodox’ complaint by reader
Without hesitation, if you were to ask me, “HiScrivener, what music do you prefer when you need a quick pick-me-up,” I would answer before the first verb came out of your mouth. Sure, I like some old school hip-hop as much as the next (or even Nu Soul), but that’s not it. I fancy some New
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Cross Eyed: Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?
Ailia Ahmed wants to start the new year right, so she’s organizing a blood drive to mark Moharram and the Islamic new year. The Islamic year isn’t one meant to be celebrated with big parties, but instead, for Shiite Muslims, is a somber occasion commemorating the martyrdom of the Prophet M uhammad’s grandson, Huss ein, and his followers in the month of Moharram.
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Student organizes blood drive in honor of Islamic leader
In Italy, The Superior Council of Magistrates has removed Judge Luigi Tosti from the professional rolls of Italian magistrates. AP reported on Friday on the action that essentially removes Tosti from office. Tosti has refused to hear cases because there are crucifixes in Italian courtrooms
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Italian Judge Removed In Dispute Over Crucifixes In Courtrooms
You don’t see 2,000-word stories in newspapers every day, so when you do, the editors probably deem it an important story. The Des Moines Register gave several inches to a reporter to explain how Susan McIntyre, a transgender social worker, was fired from her job as a housekeeper at the St
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Transgender + Catholic = story
Today is a partial repost from Randy Alcorn’s blog . Today “Sunday, January 24, is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday; marking the 37th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v
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Truth telling on the sanctity of life
Today’s second Mass reading comes from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and it is a passage I think we could all benefit from reflecting on
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The Body Is Not A Single Part, But Many