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Papists’ Progress

Posted on February 1, 2018 by David Gelber

To grow up a Catholic in Britain in the 1960s was to feel slightly separated from the rest of the country. Our parish rituals set us apart – all the incense and tinkling bells, the way we prayed earnestly for the conversion of England and the little booklets from the Catholic Truth Society at the […]

Matricide Who Found God

Posted on February 1, 2018 by David Gelber

In 1984, after a widely publicised debate, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland agreed to admit as a minister a candidate with a horrific past. James Nelson had fourteen years earlier been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his mother. The original crime, the Church’s decision and its aftermath

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