No religion please, we’re British
Green and pleasant: Unabashed campaigners once invoked faith to help win progress on everything from slavery to child cruelty
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Tablet features: why we need to talk about religion in the contexts of politics and society
Over the course of the assisted dying debate in Parliament, there has been one thing too sensitive to mention – the perspective of the Christian faith … What sort of progressiveness is this, where words in Parliament lose their meaning, and politicians scarcely dare to confess that “life in all its forms is of inherent worth and value”?
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