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Simon Parke: Nothing but the truth SO, just how inauthentic can the truth be? Subscriber only	Leader: Time to adopt a foetal position THE tremendous heat generated over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is an indication of the anxiety felt by sections of the public about its... Subscriber only	Recover the old dynamic sense of Bible-reading We live in a secular age, and yet a book on the Bible has rocketed up the sales charts. Subscriber only

100 years ago NEW DEVELOPMENTS in connexion with the Bishop of Newcastle’s attempt to enforce Privy Council law have occurred. Subscriber only	Giles Fraser: I believe the new puritans will fail This week’s stop (my final one) on my American adventure is Pittsburgh, the belly of the beast. Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: people are not convinced on climate ‘There is nothing visceral to defer the gratification’ Subscriber only

What kind of party spirit am I on? ‘We all need grace, and we all need to talk. That’s an argument for coming together, not walking apart’ Subscriber only	The lesson of Spartacus’s followers THIS WEEKEND sees the anniversary of a shameful event. Subscriber only	Find a new space for the incarnation “ADVENT is the consecration of waiting in our lives,” writes Maria Boulding in The Coming of God Subscriber only

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