Followers of important trends may have missed the debate within the Church of England on the question “Does God, the Almighty Creator of the Universe, have to be male?” A group of leading female clerics campaigned to change the language with which God is described in the Christian liturgy. Their idea was to refer to …
One of the main things that distinguished the Stoics from the Epicureans was that the Stoics embraced public service and politics with enthusiasm and the Epicureans certainly did not. The extrovert Stoics were out there socializing, networking, competing for honor and advancement on the one hand; the introvert and cerebral Epicureans, were content to be …
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Following months of trouble with both telephone and internet connections, British Telecom engineers noted that David Critchard’s password was overdue a change. And so they helpfully changed it. “I was sent an email to tell me that it had been changed, containing the new password,” writes David. “But of course I couldn’t access their message …
A while ago a ten-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by her stepfather, was denied an abortion in Asunción, Paraguay. The child’s pregnancy was discovered at 21 weeks, when she was taken to hospital suffering from a stomach ache. Her mother demanded an abortion for her child, but the authorities refused because the procedure is …
Libertarians no doubt abhor the idea of anything compulsory, and voting is a prime case. They would probably say that a vote denied is a vote in itself. You shouldn’t force people to take part in elections. However, the fact is that the US has the lowest voting rates of any democracy, just when we …
