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You think there’s a multiverse? Get real
From today’s New Scientist COSMOLOGY is in crisis. Recent experiments have given us an increasingly precise narrative of the history of our universe, but attempts to interpret the data have led to a picture of a “preposterous universe” that eludes… Read More ›
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A sneak preview of the cover of this week’s Catholic Herald.
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Middlemarch
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a… Read More ›
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I’m currently reading this tasty morsel
I haven’t read a book like this for some time – now I crave a theoretical perspective that can demystify and make sense of the economic and political systems of the world. This book, by a professor at Kings College… Read More ›
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A little slice of Heaven
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‘Is there any difference between Jesus and Muhammad in terms of violence?’
reblogged from Nieuwwij.nl The terrorist attacks in Paris rendered her new book Fields of Blood, Religion and the History of Violence suddenly and tragically very urgent. In over five hundred pages Karen Armstrong, once a nun and the respected author… Read More ›
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Pro-life
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Rules for freedom of speech
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Does a ‘de facto blasphemy law’ operate in Britain today?
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An Unhelpful Commentary To The “British Islam” Panorama Documentary
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Head of a Damned Soul
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A simple answer to a silly question by erudite scholar, Dr Jonathan AC Brown.
Jonathan A.C. Brown (born 1977) is an American Islamic scholar who is currently Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
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Meanwhile in London..
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Kant’s project in The Critique of Pure Reason
Professor Dan Robinson gives the first lecture in this series on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. It remains a matter of controversy as to just what the central project of the Critique is, but surely one objective is to establish… Read More ›
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Saudi Arabia’s history of hypocrisy we choose to ignore
BY ROBERT FISK – 15 JANUARY 2015 Sir William Hunter was a senior British civil servant and in 1871 published a book which warned of “fanatic swarms” of Sunni Muslims who had “murdered our subjects”, financed by “men of… Read More ›
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‘I did not go to heaven’: Paralyzed boy admits he made up best-selling book about how he ascended to paradise and met Jesus after car wreck
A boy whose tale of dying and going to heaven after a car crash that became a best-selling book has admitted to making the whole thing up. Alex Malarkey, now 16, lay in a coma for two months and was… Read More ›
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Monteverdi – Lamento della Ninfa
Just love this piece
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Karl has a message
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Don’t mess with this Pope
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Allah
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A poet
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Have I been misunderstanding the concept of freedom of speech?
rebogged from The Intercept France arrests a comedian for his Facebook comments, showing the sham of the West’s “free speech” celebration. Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a… Read More ›
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Liquefaction
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History of English
A look at the history of the English language.
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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf – The Critical Importance of Al-Ghazali in Our Times
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I’m forwarding this as received. Make up your own minds…
Freedom of Speech in France: For the Powerful, By the Powerful, With the Powerful Leaving aside closer to home; allied British and American Troops repeatedly bombing and killing Al-Jazeera journalists, locking up Moazzam Begg for exposing British collaboration with the… Read More ›
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Tasbih
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Trouble in paradise
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O Lumen Ecclesiae, Magnificat
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Annunciation
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