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Changed Times? Part Two

28th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 1786 Comments

Despite claims of a cover-up that cost Archbishop of Canterbury Welby his job, close to the time of the scandalous behaviour of Evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth, the following appeared in the February 1989 biography [more…]

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Changed Times?

21st June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2221 Comments

John Smyth was a Canadian-born British barrister and Christian evangelist born in 1941. Son of Colonel Edward Smyth, after prep school in Canada and public school in England, he completed his education at Trinity Hall, [more…]

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Leo XIV and Rerum Novarum

11th June 2025 Going Postal 2636 Comments

Upon his elevation, the new pope announced that he had assumed the name of Leo XIV.  For those familiar with Leo XIII, this was a signal that the principles of Leo XIII as expressed in [more…]

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Beautiful Kashmir

21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2752 Comments

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
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An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2209 Comments

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Easter Railway Review

18th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2412 Comments

Last week’s trip to Albania being too mainstream, this edition of Railway Review (how I yearn for the return of Question Time!) was going to be of an obscure South American mineral line. Observing the [more…]

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The New Religion

16th December 2024 Jonathon Davies 2424 Comments

I myself am I Christian, and the more I see of the world today the more convinced I am that for some people science has replaced religion, and in turn become its own religion. You [more…]

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A Natural End to The Human Experience?

26th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 2248 Comments

On the other week’s BBC Question Time from Rotherham, when the subject turned to ‘assisted dying’, a gentleman in the audience commented politics and religion do not mix and religion should be kept out of [more…]

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Basilica Santuario Santo Stefano – The Seven Churches of Bologna

30th September 2024 Going Postal 1822 Comments

It is a short walk from the twin towers, past the oldest house in Bologna, to Via Santo Stefano. For the most part the journey is under a colonnade of stone, cast in cool shadow [more…]

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