Dear friends,How do religions begin in the first place? Not by clever theologians producing lists of doctrines for the faithful to believe, nor by moralists producing codes of ethical behaviour. Religions begin with experiences which are then reflected on, interpreted and shared with others.
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Dear friends,Nobody much today reads Etienne de La Boetie’s work ‘On Voluntary Servitude’. Yet there was a time when this treatise – little more than a student essay dashed off by a sixteen-year-old in the 1550s amidst the French Wars of Religion- was the hottest book in Europe. Even in modern
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Dear friends,Nobody much today reads Etienne de La Boetie’s work ‘On Voluntary Servitude’. Yet there was a time when this treatise – little more than a student essay dashed off by a sixteen-year-old in the 1550s amidst the French Wars of Religion- was the hottest book in Europe. Even in modern
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Dear friends,Imagine an Anglican Church riven with conflicts, in which the Low Church party was making increasingly strident demands of the ruling body, determined to extend its power and influence. No, it’s not the Anglican Church of 2011 in its upheavals over homosexuality. The year is 1611,
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Dear friends,Imagine an Anglican Church riven with conflicts, in which the Low Church party was making increasingly strident demands of the ruling body, determined to extend its power and influence. No, it’s not the Anglican Church of 2011 in its upheavals over homosexuality. The year is 1611,
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Dear friends,I wish you a happy New Year. Or, as we might soon be saying, I wish you a high rating in your felicific calculus. For our level of happiness is, according to the government, something which the Office for National Statistics is soon to measure in its survey of households. Strictly
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Dear friends,I wish you a happy New Year. Or, as we might soon be saying, I wish you a high rating in your felicific calculus. For our level of happiness is, according to the government, something which the Office for National Statistics is soon to measure in its survey of households. Strictly
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