There’s a special kind of power in beginnings. Before something is polished, proven or named, it exists in a “nascent” state. This word captures that in-between moment when possibility is present but ...

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Fittingly, Shakespeare's Globe in London are marking the birthday. In Port Talbot there is a passion play featuring Michael Sheen and the Manic Street Preachers, in Edinburgh a five-storey exhibition, ...

Many American Christians across the ideological spectrum, perhaps the large majority, seem to believe that Christianity must have a distinctive political expression. Liberal Christians think their ...