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Letters: The public has been bamboozled by the blurring of guidance and law


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SIR – Your recent leader and letters (May 25) drew attention to the multiple nonsenses emanating from Whitehall – particularly the ruling on amateur choirs. Yesterday there was also further confusion over travel rules.
What the public needs is a guide on which of the Government’s pronouncements are merely advice and which have the force of law.
I fear that we have become so supine during the pandemic and the lockdowns that we are losing the confidence to trust our own judgment.
Edward Sharp
 
SIR – The suggestion that our freedoms will be curtailed beyond June 21 (“Vaccine not enough to avoid self-isolating”, report, May 25) has nothing to do with protection from the virus and everything to do with extending control over us. ....

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Scholars have 'no doubts at all' that Jesus existed: expert


This ancient mosaic depicts the Last Supper, which contributed in to the superstition surrounding the number 13. There were 13 guests, the last being Judas Iscariot, shown at the mosaic s bottom receiving the bread that Jesus dipped (John 13:18-30). | Public Domain
Secular mainstream historical academia has “no doubts at all” that Jesus of Nazareth was an actual historical figure, according to an Australian scholar and Anglican priest.
A recent episode of the Dallas Theological Seminary podcast “The Table,” posted to YouTube last week, focused on the question of the historicity of Jesus.
John Dickson, a religion historian who specializes in early Christianity and is the director of the Centre for Public Christianity in Australia, was one of two experts interviewed on the podcast. ....

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Lifting Spirits: Religion Books Preview 2021


By Cathy Lynn Grossman
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Dec 11, 2020
Most titles slated for publication in 2021 were written before the Covid-19 pandemic, the divisive presidential election, and the traumas that brought more urgency than ever to racial and social justice issues in 2020. Yet their authors address faith, family, and society in ways that are relevant in any year. They can even point toward joy.
It’s not a superficial “ephemeral, cliché-ridden kind of joy,” says David Bratt, executive editor for Eerdmans, for which he acquired Angela Gorrell’s
The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found (Mar.). Gorrell was studying Christian ideas of joy for the Yale Center for Faith and Culture when confronted by the sudden deaths of three close family members from suicide, addiction, and a previously undetected medical condition. “She found that authentic, lasting joy has ‘a mysterious capacity to be felt alongside of sorrow and even sometimes most especi ....

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