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Giles Fraser: A rant about a world I no longer understand I am in the mood for a rant. Subscriber only	Folly of the parking-space prayer It is now six weeks since Madeleine McCann was abducted. Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: Being British comes by assimilation By one of those peculiar coincidences, I was reading an essay by Gordon Brown on Britishness, when the news came through that a Kurdish man had been convicted... Subscriber only

Simon Parke: Coming up with the answer HEARD at a conference of Pentecostal ministers: “Could those who want coffee please put their hands down.” Subscriber only	A birthday worth celebrating It has been difficult to miss the bad press meted out to certain UK Evangelical institutions by the national media. Subscriber only	Why US Evangelicals don’t go green It is estimated that up to 45 per cent of the electorate voting for the Republican Party are either Evangelical Christians or at least in sympathy with... Subscriber only

Voices of faith can make the politicians listen The voices of the world faiths were not silent before last week’s G8 leaders’ meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany. Subscriber only	Leader: All God’s work in the end IT IS as well to be wary of the Church when it proposes to be useful. Subscriber only	100 years ago The bride and the bull-dog Subscriber only

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