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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