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Leader: Gordon Brown takes the floor THE General Director of the Evangelical Alliance, the Revd Joel Edwards, tried to gee up Gordon Brown at the end of last week. Subscriber only	Giles Fraser: Community life isn’t all about pubs I have a deep ambivalence about the word “community”. Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: How not to cope with a trauma First, he was a suspect. Then he was a scapegoat. Subscriber only

Simon Parke: We live in Confucius times THERE’S a new kid in town, though he’s as old as the hills. The breaking news from China is that Confucius is back in favour. Subscriber only	100 years ago: Protestant flak for Mirfield Kensitite Protestants disrupted a fund-raising meeting on behalf of the Mirfield Fathers’ university hostel in Leeds Subscriber only	What happened to servanthood? ‘No other Western democracy gives power to unelected religious leaders’ Subscriber only

Why unity matters so much ‘The Church should not copy secular liberal politics’ Subscriber only	Beware the aggressive extremist within ‘The militant atheists refuse to engage with belief in any deep way’ Subscriber only

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