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July 8, 2020
Lockdown restricts our freedom. We like freedom, and want it back. But what for? The governments most strongly committed to economic ‘liberalism’, like the USA and […]
July 8, 2020
A friend and colleague of mine – a Fellow and College Chaplain – has just been completing the latest safeguarding training for the Church of England. […]
June 25, 2020
I’ve just been corresponding with someone who believes in astrology. This post asks about its scientific credentials. In an earlier post I described an experience back […]
June 17, 2020
Should we pull down statues of slave traders? Statues to individuals are erected to honour them. They express the values of the people who put them […]
June 6, 2020
Racism is more than murder… and George Floyd is more than a hashtag. So writes Chris Kimbangi, adding that many black, Asian and minority ethnic people […]
June 5, 2020
Earlier in the year I wrote a blog for MC about links between the Environment Catastrophe and Covid-19. Since then we have had ten weeks in […]
June 4, 2020
As a long-time supporter of Martyn Percy, one of Modern Church’s most distinguished Vice-Presidents, I never thought I would write the words “Think again, Martyn”. But […]
June 2, 2020
On August 15th 1665, the weekly statistics on deaths in London were published. Bills of Mortality had been continuously published since 1603 by the Worshipful Company […]
May 30, 2020
Dominic Cummings’ trip to Durham has become big news. When law-makers break their own laws, fury results – especially from people who have struggled to obey […]