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New Oxford Notes: March 2016

Barbarians Inside the Gates

Why does compassion for anti-Semitic, chauvinist Muslim male refugees trump compassion for Jews' and women's human rights and dignity?

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The Anglican Conundrum

Same-sex marriage is causing deep and possibly irreparable division in the Anglican Communion, the third-largest Christian communion in the world.

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