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COMMON DECENCY | Compassion, not ideology, for assisted dying
A recent survey revealed that the majority of people believe in a controlled, supervised, and extremely limited form of assisted dying for those who are suffering, and whose death is close and will be otherwise painful and likely isolated.
Jul 15, 2022 4:09 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | The curtains may draw, but the magic never ends
W hen my daughter Lucy was a tiny child, just turned four years old, I took her to see The Nutcracker, in Toronto, that annual event of pristine Christmas escapism.
Jul 8, 2022 7:09 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | Belated but beloved understanding
R ecently we celebrated Father’s Day. I’m the father of four, and only after I became a dad did I understand my own father. Oh, the memories: happy and sad, joyous and tearful.
Jun 30, 2022 6:42 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | When followers of Christ are the least Christian
L ast month The Church of Scotland, once considered arch-conservative, voted to allow its clergy to conduct same-sex marriages.
Jun 24, 2022 11:51 AM
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COMMON DECENCY | The New Puritanism hardens the heart
F orgiveness is vital. Its angry and fierce absence within contemporary discourse has turned social media, and even the greater public conversation, into an increasingly cold and dark place.
Jun 16, 2022 12:55 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | Pride in The Beautiful Game
I n the October before the lockdown I was in London having lunch with the chaplain of one of Britain’s most famous and successful soccer teams.
Jun 10, 2022 1:02 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | Another brick in the Handmaid’s wall
N ancy Pelosi’s eternal soul is, apparently, in deep, dark danger. This, at least, is the opinion of Salvatore Cordileone, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco.
Jun 1, 2022 7:13 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | Parliamentary prayer more show than substance
I begin and end every day with formal prayer. Glutton that I am, I also pray throughout the day, both in an organized manner in church, and while I’m simply walking and being. It rather comes with the job, in that I’m an Anglican priest.
May 26, 2022 10:09 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | Food, family, and faith
L et us say grace, as it were. The 60s are beguiling. I don’t mean the 1960s. I was born in 1959 and couldn’t say “permissive society” back then, let alone live it.
May 18, 2022 4:00 PM
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COMMON DECENCY | The unholy battle over abortion
T here is nothing Christian about allowing women to die in illegal backstreet abortions. Nothing Christian about removing the basic right of a woman to control her own body. Nothing Christian about wanting to criminalize female equality.
May 11, 2022 10:26 PM
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