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Judge not lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church fostering a certain..

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Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks Tom Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. Fro..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

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