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With a voice of singing Leader Subscriber only	Giles Fraser: The Bible is not a legal document The relationship between Christian theology and law is disputed and complex. Jesus railed against the lawyers for not understanding, and Paul contrasted... Subscriber only	100 years ago: Echoes of the 1870s The Bishop of Liverpool was threatening to prosecute the incumbents of St John Baptist, Tue Brook, and St Thomas’s, Toxteth, over their use of incense... Subscriber only

Is there really an anti-Sunni plot? It seemed that things could get no worse in Iraq, but they did. The hope of the Baghdad government and its US backers was that the swift execution of... Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: Big Brother is watching? Fine by me The speed of technological change is so breakneck that it is hard to comprehend just how radically it has overhauled our lives in a comparatively short... Subscriber only	Simon Parke: We who are about to die salute you “IF YOU could just wait in here . . . there’s coffee, fruit juice, toast, and croissants — and the papers, of course. Someone will collect you.” Subscriber only

Warmer words, but little substance The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be an occasion to take stock of relations between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, which have been... Subscriber only	Guilty of aiding and abetting Stories of online gambling, which are to be broadcast on the BBC World Service this weekend (20-22 January), are unlikely to allay apprehensions about... Subscriber only	Is this a boundary we should not cross? If you believe the media, there was an important skirmish in the war between science and religion last week. Subscriber only

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