Stories
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Primiti? & ultima: or, the early labours and last remains that will meet the public eye, in several practical discourses, eminently calculated for alarming sinners and Hypocrites in Zion, and Affording Instruction, Correction, and Consolation, to Genuine Believers, of the late Rev. and Learned Mr Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Ettrick,-Author of the Fourfold State, &c. &c. Now first published from his manuscripts. In three volumes. ...
Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732.Date: 1800-01- Books
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Thoughts occasioned by the proposed application to Parliament for a repeal of the law of patronage. Addressed to all parties in the church; by a Welwisher of Church and State.
Welwisher of Church and state.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Reasons of dissent from the resolution of the last General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to apply to Parliament for augmentation of stipends, entered by the officer of state, &c. With a short introduction.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: M,DCC,L. [1750]- Books
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An abstract of the proceedings of the General Assembly, of the Chruch [sic] of Scotland, from their first meeting on the 6th untill their last meeting, and adjournment on the 17th instan[t] May 1714. inclusive, at the desire of several Members of the General Assembly, and for the benefite [sic] of the meaner sort of people of congreations [sic], that are not able to purchase the said proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly at large, coppied [sic] out of The Edinburgh Gazette, of the 11th and 18th instant, new out of print, by allowance of the author. ...
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1714]- Books
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The representation of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, presented on the first day of June, 1703. to the Duke of Queensbery, Lord High Commissioner of Scotland; to prevent the passing of the act of toleration of the episcopal protestants in Scotland. ...
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1719