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The piety of a harmless drudge
Dr Johnson first-hand
Interview: Simon Valentine writer and lecturer
Education: Faith is at the heart of independent schools
Education: Can we sing it? Can we sign it? Yes, we can
Education: Pendulum is swinging back
Education: Teachers needed
Education: Academy awards
Education: Actually, we don’t want to indoctrinate your children
Education: Not the time for diocesan cutbacks
Education: Who should go to a C of E school?
Maggie Durran: Broadening a church’s use
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The piety of a harmless drudgeSAMUEL JOHNSON, who was born on 18 September 1709, was not only “a great soul” in Carlyle’s words, but a great Christian layman of an unusual kind. |
Dr Johnson first-handIN 1777, it appears from his Prayers and Meditations, that Johnson suffered much from a state of mind “unsettled and perplexed”, |
Interview: Simon Valentine writer and lecturer‘Muslims think I’m a Muslim. I don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t go clubbing’ |
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Education: Faith is at the heart of independent schools‘We are carrying the torch of an ancient faith’ |
Education: Can we sing it? Can we sign it? Yes, we can‘It’s really important that everyone should be able to celebrate together’ |
Education: Pendulum is swinging back‘Core subjects have become second nature’ |
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Education: Teachers neededPRIMARY SCHOOLS are once more in the news. |
Education: Academy awardsTHE University of Chester Church of England Academy, Ellesmere Port, which opened its doors earlier this month |
Education: Actually, we don’t want to indoctrinate your childrenTHE Code of Conduct of the General Teaching Council — a body that purports |
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Education: Not the time for diocesan cutbacks‘The part played by DDEs has become more strategic’ |
Education: Who should go to a C of E school?‘We have no grounds for smugness or complacency’ |
Maggie Durran: Broadening a church’s useYour consideration of the church as sacred space seems to us a little self-interested. |
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