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| Life is a lottery |
| 30/6/2011 |
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Here’s a wonderful story from yesterday's news. Somewhere, probably in Plymouth or thereabouts, somebody bought a lottery ticket on January 28 and won £1 million. The trouble is, he or she doesn't know they've won £1 million. The prize remains unclaimed five months later.
The organisers of the lottery are keen to find the winner and they’re urging us all to check our pockets and look down the back of the sofa to see if we can find the little piece of paper... |
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| Greatest success is to help others to suceed |
| 7/4/2011 |
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There's been much debate in the past few days about the government's plans for increasing social mobility. And I think we can all agree that social mobility matters. Better a society in which everyone can reach their full potential than one in which the doors of opportunity are open to some and closed to others.
But it seems to me that governments can only do so much, while the rest depends on more intangible factors like culture and attitudes and the things that shape o... |
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| Religious Freedom Matters |
| 2/12/2010 |
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Last night we lit candles on the first of the eight days of the jewish festival of Hanukkah. And I found myself recalling a very moving moment almost twenty years ago when I lit Hanukkah candles with Mikhail Gorbachev, last president of the USSR, the former Soviet Union.
It was only after we’d completed the ceremony that he asked, through his interpreter, what was the significance of what we’d just done. So I told him the story of how, two centuries before the birt... |
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| The good news about faith is that it builds communities |
| 19/11/2010 |
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Starting this Sunday the various religious communities in Britain will be coming together in a series of events to mark Interfaith Week, the latest chapter in the history of British tolerance. But it wasn’t always so.
Britain was the first country to expel its Jews, in 1290. They weren’t allowed back until 1656. And the Pilgrim Fathers who set sail from Britain to America in the early seventeenth century were Calvinists, fearing persecution here and seeking liberty t... |
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