A Month with the Messiah – Nigel Brooks
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A Month with the Messiah – Nigel Brooks

It’s been a very long time since I sang Messiah as a choir boy at Ipswich School! It was no small undertaking for a school to tackle a production of such epic proportion, and I remember very many hours of rehearsal before performance day. Now, several decades on I have enjoyed revisiting Messiah in the...

The Paradox of Peace – David Watts
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The Paradox of Peace – David Watts

Dimitri, in Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, affirmed that: “If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”. The widespread intuition – that God is the moral Governor of the universe – would then have no meaning. There would be no final reckoning against human sinfulness and particularly the actions of despots from Mao Zedong...

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