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The Liberal and Reform movements are exploring a union to be known as Progressive Judaism. JL: We were both born into Progressive Judaism, and also made conscious decisions. I went on a journey, exploring other parts of Judaism, and then decided ..read more
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IT HAS been usual to think of three literary forms: the epic or narrative, the dramatic, and the lyric. The great Hans von Balthasar sought to relate his theology to the second or dramatic form. Elizabeth Dodd is concerned with the third one, the ..read more
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ROSEMARIE DAVIDSON’s optimism is energetic and infectious: “My dreams for the Sam Sharpe Lectures were, and remain, lofty,” she says, “that one day the annual lectures will be on a par with the beloved Reith Lectures hosted by the BBC.” The Church ..read more
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I SOMEWHAT doubt whether concert promoters pay attention to the liturgical calendar, and it would be an unkindness to suggest that hearing Danielle de Niese and the forces corralled by Ed Gardner for the LPO out-of-town performance of Kurt Weill a ..read more
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THE indignities that the aspiring actor must endure are legion; but, even so, you might justifiably complain about being upstaged by a giant Styrofoam mountain. The tale is told by Michael Goldfarb in last week’s series of The Essay: Watching from ..read more
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AFTER a generation of neglect and depreciation, Byron, the centenary of whose death is celebrated on Saturday, now stands unchallenged among the greatest of the English poets. He is one of the tragic figures of the world, an idealist who lost his ..read more
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TEARFUND is urging United Nations negotiators to agree a global plastics treaty to save communities from being buried under piles of plastic waste, which, the Christian aid agency says, are damaging human health, ecosystems, and wildlife. The rout ..read more
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Kenneth Shenton writes: THE hymn-tune writer Peter Cutts was one of the finest of the many musicians produced by the University of Cambridge in the immediate years after the Second World War. Born in Birmingham on 4 June 1937, Peter Warwick Cutts ..read more
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CHURCH leaders in Ireland have welcomed a Vatican decision to restructure one of their country’s four Roman Catholic archdioceses, in the face of falling church attendance and changing demographics. “We know from personal experience th ..read more
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LIKE most other teenagers, I was obsessed with my image: self-conscious, insecure, and anxious about what others thought of me. What I could not know was that my prefrontal cortex — the area of my brain responsible for social interaction, social-u ..read more