Throughout the ages, leaders and organisations have formed creeds at pivotal times in history which set out what they believe. They are statements which derive from some kind of principal, which usually don’t attempt to make any justification for those beliefs, but which set out clearly their positions on the relevant issues of their […]

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Hell has frozen over.
Today my hometown, Belfast, Northern Ireland, the last major stronghold of fundamentalist evangelicals in the United Kingdom, became the stage for the first legal civil unions of homosexual couples in the UK. What a wonderful juxtaposition between liberal and conservative thought. And what a great discussion.
To understand these groundbreaking new […]

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What a bunch of whiners!
Starbucks printing a Christian quote on this month’s coffee cup in its cafés seemed to really irritate some people featured on your program last week. It “bothered” them because, according to one, the quote is part of the “discourse of the religious Right.” It seems to me that a […]

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