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The Cry Of The Unheard
- Art compels a response, especially when it is serving up pain during entertainment. The Obama era TV drama, Homeland, about a US Marine who emerges from a protracted period of incarceration
Girls In The Hood
- God is present in the estates the Church talks about reaching; unlike his followers, he never left these spaces. It is to be seen whether the furore over the lack of black actors among the Oscar nominees for 2016 will make a difference
Remembering Srebrenica
- Hitler knew that forgetting history helped the cause of cruelty, which is reason to remember a Balkan atrocity. Among the centenary commemorations surrounding the First World War, one has been largely overlooked in the UK:
Is There Something Wrong With You If You're Not On Facebook?
- There is a dignity to human privacy which tells of the mystery of being made in God’s image,but try telling that to our social media gurus.
Jimmy Carr And The Politics Of Hypocrisy
- Is it right to single out one private citizen for public shaming? The Prime Minister took a step the Church has largely forsworn in an era of self-determination. The deaths of seven hundred migrants off the coast of Libya
Looking Up To Others
- Famous people have the most diffused power to influence others, but more concentrated power lies closer to home.
Role models have always featured in culture but never more so than now.
Not The Ten O'Clock News
- Why do we feel an almost religious duty to follow the daily news? Following the news is an unconscious ritual of many households, compelled by the felt need to stay abreast of big developments.
When The Sun Turns To Black
- A solar eclipse says a lot about the kind of world we have made, but even more about the God of creation. On March 20, 2015 the sun will be extinguished over the UK.
The Most Debased Word In The English Language
- We can’t stop talking about community today, yet there is less of it about than when Baroness Thatcher seemed to deny the existence of society
The Image Which Cannot Be Erased
- A new genre of extreme violence has emerged on social media which renders impotent any restrictions in broadcasting
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