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| Credo - August 1993 |
| 1/8/1993 |
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From the sustained attacks on it in recent years, the family suffered a blow this week from an unexpected source: the journal of the Mothers' Union. A union's former vice-president, Christine McMullen, wrote that the nuclear family ``is seen by many as too stifling, secretive and imprisoning''.
She added: ``There is a multiplicity of family styles around today, and all need to be considered as valid.'' It is true that the nuclear family husband, wife and children as a ``haven in a hear... |
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| Credo - May 1993 |
| 1/5/1993 |
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The Hasidic master Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk once asked his disciples: ``Where is God?'' Bemused, they replied: ``Is it not written that God fills the heavens and the earth? God is everywhere.'' ``No,'' replied the rabbi, ``God is where we let Him in.'' That statement seems to me as near to religious truth as we will come. There is a line of thought which seeks incontrovertible evidence that God exists. Scholars have sought God in the design of the universe, the architecture of matter, the me... |
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| Credo - March 1993 |
| 1/3/1993 |
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The first response to tragedy is shock. The second is sombre reflection. Following the brutal murder of two-year-old James Bulger, we have been gripped by a rare mood of moral introspection, and we must not let the moment pass without answering the questions we have begun to ask. The narrow question concerns juvenile crime. But it belongs within the wider context of childhood and the family in Britain today. The facts are grim. Three of every ten children are born outside marriage. One in... |
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