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...Regarding Derek Brower’s review of Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (“Trump’s true believers”, Books, Life & Arts, February 24), perhaps...
...Alberta is a Christian himself and the son of an evangelical pastor, so The Kingdom is no drive-by hit job, mocking wacky Americans....
...Later the American and French revolutions explicitly separated church and state. Reaction always followed....
...Parsing the Lord’s Prayer and picking up from the line “For thine is the kingdom”, she said, “We live in the kingdom of Fife, and we have ‘commandments’ — have white teeth, have lovely hair....
...A perfect place to unwind, with the added benefit — as the chatty barista at The Good Coffee Kiosk explained — that all the profit goes to good causes, and the coffee beans (from Reading-based Kingdom Coffee...
...Kashimada is an established writer of avant-garde fiction in Japan; she has reworked Dostoevsky’s The Idiot as The Kingdom of Zero (2009) and is a member of the Orthodox Church, contexts which turn out to...
...Despite a slow start, the book gathers pace, and, near the climax, there’s a brilliantly written confrontation between Blair’s Anglo-Burmese family and his lover, who storms into a church claiming that Blair...
...The Farmaceutica remained in the ownership of the church until 1866, when the property was confiscated by the kingdom of Italy, under whose ownership it remained until 1946 when Santa Maria Novella was privatised...
...A kingdom of ice extended north to the pole....
...To be honest, it has made us feel more like a church. Yes, we’ve had our share of painful division and conflict along the way. But today, ours is a fairly peaceable kingdom....
...The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan (Head of Zeus/Apollo) This deep dive into Cornwall’s history, landscape and identity should be stacked on service-station counters all along the A303...
...The nation has for centuries had a relatively weak church. (French, Italian and Polish populists are often tied up with a certain kind of Catholicism.)...
...In a church in Montevideo a priest quotes from Matthew 4:4, his voice trailing off with the words: “Man does not live by bread alone.”...
...It’s part of the island of Ireland and the United Kingdom. It’s religious and it’s secular. It’s provincial and it’s international....
...Church art offered a tease and a consolation: here’s a picture of what you don’t have, but you wouldn’t want it anyway. Deprivation was reinterpreted as virtue....
...Take a break from the news With the Church of Scotland poised to make some deep cuts, the FT Weekend Essay examines the social consequences of religious retreat and how Scotland lost the faith....
...Exactly a month ago I was married in St Andrew’s Church, Didling, in front of a vicar, family and friends. It was divine....
...An inscription in the toilet informs me that in this world, Clovis 1, the first Christian monarch to reign over the kingdom of the Francs, is king....
...To the last of the Victorians the new Queen’s kingdoms and dominions, though almost unchanged in name, would be almost unrecognisable in fact.”...
...This is episode four: The church of bitcoin....
...For a conservationist, it is a kind of dream kingdom of rewilding, green development and low impact tourism....
...The immigrants came from pre-unification Italy, from the Two Sicilies, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal States....
...By the end of the century, there was a thriving international market economy, an embryonic welfare state and brick-built cities powered by coal; plague and witch trials disappeared, the church embraced toleration...
...Tim Hannigan’s ‘The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey’ is published by Head of Zeus on 11 May Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Liz Truss, the new British prime minister, will accompany King Charles at church services during his tour under the terms of long-planned official arrangements....
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