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This weekend I intended to tidy my study, which is indisputably the messiest room in our house. Unfortunately, as often happens, I soon found myself side-tracked from the task and absorbed in reading a document that had no obvious place amongst my piles of bills and letters. It turns out it may not have been the most appropriate reading material for a Sunday afternoon, because now imagined images keep flashing before my eyes, causing me to weep.

There has been a lot of coverage of the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem over the past few days and of the remarks of Bishop Peter Akinola inparticular. Those who applaud the bishop for his ‘conservative’ views ought to be made aware of what these include.

I have just read news on the BBC that three Indonesian Christian girls were beheaded as they walked to school – news buried under the frenzy surrounding David Blunket’s business dealings. What an utterly sick age we live in. Even as we anticipate it in our Prophet’s words, the depravity never fails to appall. The [...]

It is a manifestation of the dignity of man that Islam has placed an infinite value on human life.