Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Abbot Elfric expounds a Palm Sunday text to explain how Christianity combines orderly behaviour with intelligent and genuine liberty.
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The British encountered no stouter resistance in India than Mysore’s gifted commmander Hyder Ali and his son, Tipu.
For Jesus Christ to step down alive from his cross would have been a mighty miracle, but not the mightiest.
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Pip Pirrip never misses a moment of visiting time with Abel Magwitch, the convict who made him into a gentleman, in the prison hospital.
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The eighth-century English bishop and poet Cynewulf takes us to the threshold of God’s holy city, and gives us a choice.
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The eighth-century English bishop and poet Cynewulf explores a prophecy from the Song of Solomon.