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Graphic confusion in Rome | Andrew Brown

I feel we should start a competition to reduce Rowan's speeches to the same format. I have read carefully his talk in Rome, and the task is beyond me. The nearest I could get to his message to the pope is "Forgive us our women, as we forgive those who ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2009

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Backlash | Andrew Brown

This is in some ways hard on the Anglo-Catholics. The settlement they were offered in 1992, when hundreds were threatening to go to Rome, did seem to offer them an "integrity" of their own: a right to stay in the Church of England forever. Now it is ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009

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Rowan's economics for humanity | Andrew Brown

'Economy" is simply the Greek word for "housekeeping".  Remembering this is a useful way of getting things in proportion, so that we don't lose losing sight of the fact that economics is primarily about the decisions we make so as to create a habitat ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009

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From the campaign for real patriarchy | Andrew Brown

People here often lightly say that religions are misogynistic or patriarchal. But it takes a Chechen to tell us what these words really mean. Here is Ramzan Kadyrov, the Putin-approved dictator of Chechnya, haranguing an audience of former resistance ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Nov 2009

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A miracle baby in Dagestan | Andrew Brown

A nine-month old boy in Dagestan, a North Caucasian region bordering Chechnya, has become the object of pilgrimage after his parents and the village imam reported seeing Quranic verses, in Arabic, appearing on his skin. These have been attested by the ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009

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Adam and Eve and a banana | Andrew Brown

I had a cold yesterday, and spent it reading in bed, where I discovered a wonderful story about Carl Linnaeus, one of the founders of modern biology. Linnaeus was a doctor in the mid eighteenth century, and his biography offers a fascinating insight ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009

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1989 and all that | Andrew Brown

Anniversary fatigue may be widespread, but there's much food for thought in 1989 A little more than 20 years ago I met the bravest and most inspiring Christians of my career: thin, middle-aged, rather drab women a church in East Berlin. Each one of ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009

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Learning from creationism | Andrew Brown

It's easy to suppose that the whole vast apparatus of modern creationism has taught us nothing at all. All those books, the endless arguments on usenet and then on the web, the museums, the theme parks, the teaching materials – all of it dedicated to ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009

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The Vatican's small print for Anglicans | Andrew Brown

Great news for the inquisition, as the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith used to be known! "The competence of erection has been given to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith", according to the official commentary put out by ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Comment Is Free,  9 Nov 2009

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We're doomed without a green religion | Andrew Brown

The justification for burning heretics was perfectly simple: dissent threatened the survival of society. Nothing was worse than anarchy. This is a viewpoint most people in the West today find pretty much incomprehensible. It is a self-evident truth to ...

From ANDREW BROWN, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Nov 2009

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