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Julian Treasure is concerned about how the world we live in sounds.

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They are not words we are accustomed to hearing, particularly in public from a writer famous for regularly expressing his strong opinions in print.

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Tim Hoch describes himself as “a lawyer, mistake repeater, embellisher of past accomplishments, forgetful husband, capricious father, double standard practitioner, weak ass raconteur.”

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How could I resist the headline when it popped up in my Google newsfeed?

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In his book The Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness, Yehuda Bauer tells a moving story from Auschwitz that he was told by Holocaust survivor Yossel Rosensaft.

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Yesterday I listened to a great address by Stacy McGhee speaking at “Marketplace” sponsored by The Table and held at Church of Our Lord.

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Benjamin Carter Hett is Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In his “Introduction” to the diary of Werner Otto Müller-Hill, published in English in 2013, he discusses the perplexing historical question of the degree of awareness most Germans had of the atrocities perpetrated throughout Europe during Nazi rule.

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In the sermon Irwin Shaw puts in the mouth of the vicar Noah encounters in his novel, The Young Lions, the preacher, starts with a stirring call to love as the embodiment of the message Jesus brought.

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How do you respond to someone who believes that Christianity teaches that the majority of people in the world are condemned to an eternity of suffering after physical death?

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I have not heard them lately, but ten years ago rumours of the imminent demise of the Anglican Church of Canada abounded.

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