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Bits & Bobs

Next to the fruit fly, the most popular insect (arthropod) of the creation scientist could very well be the common honey bee. Much has been written and filmed of this insect’s incr ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 2

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Bits & Bobs

According to scripture, God ‘created the heaven and the earth’ on Day One of Creation Week. Initially all was dark, until God said, ‘Let there be light’ ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 1

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Bits & Bobs

Is the ‘God particle’ singular or plural? Finding the Higgs boson is the primary aim of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment in Gene ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 4

Exposition

Bits & Bobs

100th Anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s death Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12 May 1820 and was named Florence after her birt ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 3

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Bits & Bobs

Cohabitation in the 21st Century A recent report published by the Jubilee Centre, Cambridge, and authored by Dr. John Hayward and Dr. Guy Brand ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 2

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Bits & Bobs

‘Christians shouldn’t keep faith private’, says Gordon Brown Britain remains a Christian country and believers should not privatize their ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 1

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Bits & Bobs – ‘World’s oldest Torah’ found at world’s oldest university

It was virtually ignored for centuries, but what may be the world’s oldest Torah has been discovered at the world’s oldest university. The priceless scroll was found in the archi ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 3

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Bits & Bobs – Brilliant Butterfly Feature Challenges Darwinian Selection

How do butterflies’ wings shine? Like almost all other butterflies, the Morpho has wings covered with scales. Typically, pigmentation patterns across these scales generate wing col ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

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Bits & Bobs – Moles Can Smell in Stereo

Most people have heard of ‘stereo sound’, but not many may be familiar with ‘stereo vision’, which helps many mammals discern depth. Seeing and hearing in stereo helps creatu ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 2

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Bits & Bobs – No Big Bang?

Christians who believe the universe began billions of years ago often point to the Big Bang model to try and verify a creation-like beginning, but a new origin of the universe model ...

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 2

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Bits & Bobs – The Amazing Jewel Beetle

Scientists made a startling discovery in the world of insects. It involved a common beetle called the jewel beetle, which is designed with the uncanny ability to detect flames of a f ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 4

Bible Bytes

Bits and Bobs

Rare King James Bible found in Wiltshire village church A rare original King James Bible has been discovered on a shelf in a Wiltshire church ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 2

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Bits and Bobs – Men and Women See Differently … Literally

A husband and wife don’t always see eye-to-eye. Sometimes, this is simply because they have differing preferences, but often it is because they are wired with differing thinking ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

Contemporary Issues

Bits and Bobs – So, what is a Gene?

DNA is the famous molecule of heredity that carries the code of life – an altogether remarkable biopolymer (polynucleotide). As expected, the more research that is conducted on t ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 1

Contemporary Issues

Bits and Bobs – What is ‘Nothing’?

It seems like a simple question. The Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary defines ‘nothing’ as, a) ‘something that does not exist; b) the absence of all magnitude or quantity’. ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

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Editorial

‘Jesus … touched him’, Mark 1. 41. Here we have the unclean in the presence of the clean, the true Nazarite from Nazareth, v. 24! Trace His steps in this chapter a ...

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 2

Editorial

‘Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you’, 1 Pet. 5. 7. As Peter encourages his trial-burdened readers to cast ‘all your care upon’ God, there are some in ...

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 4

Editorial

‘And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn’, Gen. 41. 35. ‘As I have seen thee in the sanctuary’, Ps. 63. 2.

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 3

Editorial

‘They found fault … in vain do they worship me’, Mark 7. 2, 7. How sad it is to note that some only came among the disciples to find ...

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 2

Editorial

‘Take heed therefore how ye hear’, Luke 8. 18. In every generation, God has His messengers. In Old Testament ...

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 1

Editorial

‘Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep’, John 11. 11. He knows! Although the care and concern of ...

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2017 Volume 72 Issue 4

Editorial

It was divine hands that first planted anything in earth’s soil, Gen. 2. 8. That planting established a place where man and God might commune – a place where not only man might e ...

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2017 Volume 72 Issue 3

Editorial

Editorial – February 2022

‘From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures’, 2 Tim. 3. 15. There are many lessons that emanate from the early days of Timothy th ...

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2022 Volume 77 Issue 1

Editorial

Editorial – ‘A brother beloved’, Philem. 10. What a difference salvation brings!

One day, as a prisoner in a Roman prison, a young man came face to face with the challenge of the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This young man had been a servant in a wealth ...

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 3

Editorial

Editorial – ‘Be thankful unto him, and bless his name’, Ps. 100. 4.

As we move into another decade, 2020 sees the 75th anniversary of the first publication of Precious Seed magazine and, on behalf of the current Committee, we readily acknowledge th ...

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 1

Editorial

Editorial – ‘Jesus standing’, John 20. 14.

Dead men don’t stand! How energizing it is to rejoice in the certain truth of the message of the angel to visitors to the tomb, ‘he is not here: for he is risen’, Matt. 28. 6! ...

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 1

Editorial

Editorial – ‘The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham’, Matt. 1. 1.

First words are often waited on with expectation. These first words, laid down at the threshold of the inspired first-century writings, carry an important lesson that we do well to c ...

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2017 Volume 72 Issue 1

Editorial

Editorial – ‘The just shall life by faith’, Heb. 10. 38.

The first four ‘elders’ named in Hebrews chapter 11 have some simple lessons to teach us in relation to the nature of living by faith. From Abel we can le ...

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 2

Editorial

Editorial – ‘The Lord shut him in’, Gen. 7. 16.

It is nearly twelve months since, here in the United Kingdom, society was ‘put into lockdown’. How we live our lives has changed in so many ways. For some they have had to deal ...

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2021 Volume 76 Issue 1

Editorial

Editorial – ‘They were cleansed … where are the nine?’ Luke 17. 14, 17

How precious it is to be ‘cleansed’! The defilement that sin brings to the human condition is not to be underestimated, and as these ten lepers ‘stood afar off’ they knew som ...

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2017 Volume 72 Issue 2

Editorial

Gospel Work and Other Activities

England Devon The Gospel Hall at Teignmouth has been in existence for almost 200 years. It is quite a sm ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 1

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Gospel Work and Other Activities

ENGLAND Merseyside During April, the assembly at Huyton held gospel meetings with Andrew Dutton and Stephen Baker. These meetings were ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 4

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Gospel Work and Other Activities

ENGLAND Surrey The assembly at Manor Road Evangelical Church, Guildford, held a holiday Bible club in February. Twentytwo children were present on the Monda ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 3

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Gospel Work and Other Activities

ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Norfolk The Postal Bible School was introduced into the county of Norfolk in 1976 by David Dixon. Being a ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 2

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Gospel Work and Other Activities

ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Somerset During the summer the assembly at Colefordextended the Gospel Hall buil ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 1

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Reports

England Berkshire At the end of April, Daniel Rudge, together with the saints at Bracknell, held a series of gospel meetings. Fifty unsaved, twenty of which were ad ...

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 4

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Reports

ENGLAND Lancashire Stephen Baker has been working with the assembly in Haydock. This has involved door-to-door vis ...

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 3

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Reports

England Oxfordshire For the third year in a row, the believers at North Leigh have sought to reach out to the local area with a February half-term Children’s Holi ...

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 2

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Reports

ENGLAND West Yorkshire The assembly in Skelmanthorpe appreciated a week’s visit from Jonathan Black. Jonathan ministered the word and gave reports on the Lord’s ...

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 1

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Reports

ENGLAND Northumberland The Red Row assembly, in Northumberland, had a visit from the small Church of England school in Acklington, a neighbouring village, where the ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 4

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Reports

England Kirkby-in-Ashfield Since January of this year, the assembly in Kirkby-in-Ashfield has been involved in a town centre outreach in the Idlewells Shopping Cent ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

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Reports

England Surrey The assembly at Guildford were really encouraged during the February half-term school holiday. From the Monday to the Wednesday ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 2

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Reports

England Devon Clive and Christine Williams from Barnstaple, along with Trevor Howard, took the opportunity to take the gospel to those attending the Barnstaple and ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 1

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Reports

England West Yorkshire The assembly in Hemsworth is able to go into around ten local schools to take the assemblies. Once a year, the assembly takes the Open Air Mi ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

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Reports

England Liverpool The gospel radio programme on local university radio is a work which Stephen Baker has embarked on. This is a one-hour programme on Mondays from 1 ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 3

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Reports

England Dorset The believers from Bethany Chapel, Lyme Regis have been encouraged in seeing some confessions of faith from some of the elderly ladies who have been ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 2

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Reports

ENGLAND Nottinghamshire The assembly at Kirkby-in-Ashfield held its second Evangelism Day for 2012 on Saturday, 13th October. A number of young people from across th ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 1

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Reports

England Nottinghamshire On June 23rd the small assembly at Kirkby-in-Ashfield held their second Evangelism Day assisted by Stephen Baker, (Liverpool). Twenty young p ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

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Reports

England Merseyside Titanic Opportunities – the City of Liverpool hosted an event in memory of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic called ‘Sea Ody ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 3

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Reports

England Tyne and Wear From Gateshead, brother Jim McMaster writes, ‘As always, the backbone of the work continues to be the outrea ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 2

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Reports

England London Jonathan and Joy Black, who have been commended by the Harryville assembly in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to serve the Lord in London, have been i ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

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Reports

Gloucestershire In August, the assembly at Hesters Way, Cheltenham, ran a Holiday Bible Club with Philip Dean leading the team. There was a good response ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

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Reports

England Lincolnshire The small assembly at Bethesda, Kitty Briggs Lane, Grantham, commenced an outreach work through a literature stall in ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 3

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England Northamptonshire In March, the believers in Spencer Bridge Road, Northampton, hosted the Ayrsh ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 2

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Reports and News – Gospel Work and Other Activities

Editorial Note You may note that this issue of the magazine has only one page of Reports. This is part of a planned review being undertaken in response to a decreasing numbe ...

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2016 Volume 71 Issue 1

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The Lordship of Christ is Recognized

Maybe it is not surprising that truths concerning our salvation should tend to interest us most, but there are other truths of equal value in the estimation of heaven – truths whic ...

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An Assembly of the Lord’s people will be a people among whom …

2018 Volume 73 Issue 4

Assembly Principles

Views from the News

Alabama Supreme Court orders halt to same-sex marriage licences Alabama’s Supreme Court has ordered the state’s judges to stop issuing marriage licences to same-sex coup ...

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 2

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Schools ‘failing to teach children about the Bible' A Bible Society study found that large numbers of children are not being taught about the Bible, Koran, or Torah to av ...

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 1

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Richard Dawkins apologizes for causing storm with Down’s syndrome tweet Richard Dawkins has apologized for the ‘feeding frenzy’ triggered by his tweet claiming it woul ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 4

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Russia sentences secret agents over theft of Gutenberg Bible Russia has sentenced three agents belonging to its Federal Security Service (FSB) for trying to sell a rare 15th ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

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Rising numbers of children no longer read Bible stories A study by the Bible Society finds that a large number of children are failing to read or hear Christian stories. The ...

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 2

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Head teachers removed in row over ‘creationist’ church Two head teachers who allowed members of a US-based creationist church to help out at a Scottish primary school ha ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

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Church of England gives up fight against gay marriage The Church of England has effectively accepted defeat over gay marriage, signalling that it will no longer fight agains ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 3

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Christians mark David Livingstone’s bicentenary Christians have been remembering the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, as 19th March marked 200 years sin ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 2

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2011 Census Returns Now fewer than six in ten people say they are Christians Proportion of Christians in England and Wales down to 59.3 per cent ...

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 1

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Australia votes against redefining marriage The Parliament of Australia has overwhelmingly rejected attempts to legalize gay marriage in two decisive votes. Prime Minister ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

A Word for Today

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Cameron CANNOT protect Church against gay marriage laws (says his own Justice Minister) UK Prime Minister, David Cameron’s promise to protect churches from gay marriage ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 3

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Twitter users invited to help choose the new Archbishop of Canterbury The Church of England is to use the social networking site Twitter to help select the new Archbishop ...

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 2

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Postal workers refuse to deliver Bible recordings because the CDs are ‘offensive' Postal workers refused to deliver CD’s of Bible readings after deciding they were ‘ ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

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Christians take prejudice row to Strazbourg In a significant legal development, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has requested that the British Governm ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 3

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Equality Commission sorry for Christian ‘infection’ jibe The Government’s equality agency has said sorry for a sneering remark that imp ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 2

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Most under-35s have not heard of the King James Bible More than half of young adults have never heard of the King James Version of the Bible, a ...

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 1

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Suicide clinic Dignitas under investigation The controversial suicide clinic Dignitas is under investigation by the Swiss authorities over cla ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 4

Exposition

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Pagan police win the right to take time off for festivals Pagan police officers have been given the right to take days off to celebrate festiva ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 3

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Politicians and Faith Schools It has emerged that Foreign Secretary David Miliband – an avowed atheist – sends his five-year-old son to a s ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 2

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HATE CRIME A Norwich grandmother who objected to a gay march is accused of hate crime. After witnessing a gay pride march, committed Christian ...

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 1

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