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Bits & Bobs
According to scripture, God ‘created the heaven and the earth’ on Day One of Creation Week. Initially all was dark, until God said, ‘Let there be light’, Gen. 1. 3. Days Two and Three saw the oceans, …
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 1
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Bits & Bobs
Is the ‘God particle’ singular or plural? Finding the Higgs boson is the primary aim of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment in Geneva, but new results from a rival study taking place in the US…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 4
Exposition
Bits & Bobs
100th Anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s death Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12 May 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. Florence and her sister Parthenope were both taught…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 3
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Bits & Bobs
Cohabitation in the 21st Century A recent report published by the Jubilee Centre, Cambridge, and authored by Dr. John Hayward and Dr. Guy Brandon sheds some interesting light onto the idea that living…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 2
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Bits & Bobs
‘Christians shouldn’t keep faith private’, says Gordon Brown Britain remains a Christian country and believers should not privatize their faith, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told a Christian radio …
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 1
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Bits & Bobs
Next to the fruit fly, the most popular insect (arthropod) of the creation scientist could very well be the common honey bee. Much has been written and filmed of this insect’s incredible ability to ma…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 2
Views from the News
Bits & Bobs – ‘World’s oldest Torah’ found at world’s oldest university
It was virtually ignored for centuries, but what may be the world’s oldest Torah has been discovered at the world’s oldest university. The priceless scroll was found in the archives of Bologna Univers…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 3
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Bits & Bobs – Brilliant Butterfly Feature Challenges Darwinian Selection
How do butterflies’ wings shine? Like almost all other butterflies, the Morpho has wings covered with scales. Typically, pigmentation patterns across these scales generate wing colours, but a Morpho’s…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 4
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Bits & Bobs – Moles Can Smell in Stereo
Most people have heard of ‘stereo sound’, but not many may be familiar with ‘stereo vision’, which helps many mammals discern depth. Seeing and hearing in stereo helps creatures living above ground, b…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 2
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Bits & Bobs – No Big Bang?
Christians who believe the universe began billions of years ago often point to the Big Bang model to try and verify a creation-like beginning, but a new origin of the universe model offers an ‘everlas…
Sandy Jack
2015 Volume 70 Issue 2
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Bits & Bobs – The Amazing Jewel Beetle
Scientists made a startling discovery in the world of insects. It involved a common beetle called the jewel beetle, which is designed with the uncanny ability to detect flames of a forest fire approxi…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 4
Bible Bytes
Bits and Bobs
Rare King James Bible found in Wiltshire village church A rare original King James Bible has been discovered on a shelf in a Wiltshire church. The discovery was made by residents researching the histo…
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 2
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Bits and Bobs – Men and Women See Differently … Literally
A husband and wife don’t always see eye-to-eye. Sometimes, this is simply because they have differing preferences, but often it is because they are wired with differing thinking patterns. Researchers …
Sandy Jack
2012 Volume 67 Issue 4
Contemporary Issues
Bits and Bobs – So, what is a Gene?
DNA is the famous molecule of heredity that carries the code of life – an altogether remarkable biopolymer (polynucleotide). As expected, the more research that is conducted on the DNA molecule, the m…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 1
Contemporary Issues
Bits and Bobs – What is ‘Nothing’?
It seems like a simple question. The Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary defines ‘nothing’ as, a) ‘something that does not exist; b) the absence of all magnitude or quantity’. To the average mind, ‘not…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 3
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Editorial
‘Jesus … touched him’, Mark 1. 41. Here we have the unclean in the presence of the clean, the true Nazarite from Nazareth, v. 24! Trace His steps in this chapter and note how the impeccable Christ mov…
Sandy Jack
2019 Volume 74 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you’, 1 Pet. 5. 7. As Peter encourages his trial-burdened readers to cast ‘all your care upon’ God, there are some interesting and simple points to n…
Sandy Jack
2018 Volume 73 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
‘And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn’, Gen. 41. 35. ‘As I have seen thee in the sanctuary’, Ps. 63. 2. The kernel of Joseph’s advice to a troubled Pharaoh w…
Sandy Jack
2018 Volume 73 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
‘They found fault … in vain do they worship me’, Mark 7. 2, 7. How sad it is to note that some only came among the disciples to find fault. What was it that led them to be so motivated? Are there less…
Sandy Jack
2018 Volume 73 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘Take heed therefore how ye hear’, Luke 8. 18. In every generation, God has His messengers. In Old Testament times, preachers like Noah declared the righteousness of God to an antediluvian audience, …
Sandy Jack
2018 Volume 73 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
‘Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep’, John 11. 11. He knows! Although the care and concern of Mary and Martha prompted a message to the Lord, it was not needed to…
Sandy Jack
2017 Volume 72 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
It was divine hands that first planted anything in earth’s soil, Gen. 2. 8. That planting established a place where man and God might commune – a place where not only man might enjoy fellowship with h…
Sandy Jack
2017 Volume 72 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial – August 2023
‘What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee’, Ps. 56. 3. Fear has the capacity to stalk the experience of every human being. It was disobedience to God’s commands that brought fear into the experienc…
Sandy Jack
2023 Volume 78 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial – February 2022
‘From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures’, 2 Tim. 3. 15. There are many lessons that emanate from the early days of Timothy that should be carefully considered, lessons which those of us who …
Sandy Jack
2022 Volume 77 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial – February 2024
‘If any man serve me, let him follow me’, John 12. 26 Let us be clear, our Lord does not need our service. Yet, seeing how great a debt we owe to Him, why would we not want to ‘attend to anything’ tha…
Sandy Jack
2024 Volume 79 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial – ‘A brother beloved’, Philem. 10. What a difference salvation brings!
One day, as a prisoner in a Roman prison, a young man came face to face with the challenge of the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This young man had been a servant in a wealthy home in Colossae…
Sandy Jack
2019 Volume 74 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial – ‘Be thankful unto him, and bless his name’, Ps. 100. 4.
As we move into another decade, 2020 sees the 75th anniversary of the first publication of Precious Seed magazine and, on behalf of the current Committee, we readily acknowledge the kindness and faith…
Sandy Jack
2020 Volume 75 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial – ‘Jesus standing’, John 20. 14.
Dead men don’t stand! How energizing it is to rejoice in the certain truth of the message of the angel to visitors to the tomb, ‘he is not here: for he is risen’, Matt. 28. 6! He is alive and that for…
Sandy Jack
2019 Volume 74 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial – ‘The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham’, Matt. 1. 1.
First words are often waited on with expectation. These first words, laid down at the threshold of the inspired first-century writings, carry an important lesson that we do well to consider. It is cle…
Sandy Jack
2017 Volume 72 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial – ‘The just shall life by faith’, Heb. 10. 38.
The first four ‘elders’ named in Hebrews chapter 11 have some simple lessons to teach us in relation to the nature of living by faith. From Abel we can learn that faith enables the worship of God. Bot…
Sandy Jack
2020 Volume 75 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial – ‘The Lord shut him in’, Gen. 7. 16.
It is nearly twelve months since, here in the United Kingdom, society was ‘put into lockdown’. How we live our lives has changed in so many ways. For some they have had to deal with bereavement, for o…
Sandy Jack
2021 Volume 76 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial – ‘They were cleansed … where are the nine?’ Luke 17. 14, 17
How precious it is to be ‘cleansed’! The defilement that sin brings to the human condition is not to be underestimated, and as these ten lepers ‘stood afar off’ they knew something of the isolation th…
Sandy Jack
2017 Volume 72 Issue 2
Editorial
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND Surrey The assembly at Manor Road Evangelical Church, Guildford, held a holiday Bible club in February. Twentytwo children were present on the Monday increasing to thirty-three on the Tuesday …
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 3
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Gospel Work and Other Activities
England Devon The Gospel Hall at Teignmouth has been in existence for almost 200 years. It is quite a small assembly, with approximately fifteen attending the Breaking of Bread service each Lord’s Day…
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 1
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Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND Merseyside During April, the assembly at Huyton held gospel meetings with Andrew Dutton and Stephen Baker. These meetings were very encouraging in terms of the numbers of unsaved coming in. Th…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 4
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Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Norfolk The Postal Bible School was introduced into the county of Norfolk in 1976 by David Dixon. Being a rural county it was believed that children with no access to a Sun…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 2
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Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Somerset During the summer the assembly at Colefordextended the Gospel Hall building, virtually doubling the size of the meeting room and updating the toilet and disabled f…
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2010 Volume 65 Issue 1
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Reports
ENGLAND Lancashire Stephen Baker has been working with the assembly in Haydock. This has involved door-to-door visits followed by five nights of gospel meetings. This is a small and struggling assemb…
Sandy Jack
2015 Volume 70 Issue 3
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England Northamptonshire In March, the believers in Spencer Bridge Road, Northampton, hosted the Ayrshire Bible Exhibition for the seventh time. The programme of school visits was oversubscribed with …
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 2
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England Lincolnshire The small assembly at Bethesda, Kitty Briggs Lane, Grantham, commenced an outreach work through a literature stall in the town centre street market. Although the weather was incle…
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2011 Volume 66 Issue 3
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Gloucestershire In August, the assembly at Hesters Way, Cheltenham, ran a Holiday Bible Club with Philip Dean leading the team. There was a good response to the many invitations given out. By the end …
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 4
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England London Jonathan and Joy Black, who have been commended by the Harryville assembly in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to serve the Lord in London, have been involved in gospel meetings in Clifton …
Sandy Jack
2012 Volume 67 Issue 1
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England Tyne and Wear From Gateshead, brother Jim McMaster writes, ‘As always, the backbone of the work continues to be the outreach to the homeless population of the area, most of whom are suffering …
Sandy Jack
2012 Volume 67 Issue 2
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England Merseyside Titanic Opportunities – the City of Liverpool hosted an event in memory of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic called ‘Sea Odyssey’. This was a major success with th…
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2012 Volume 67 Issue 3
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England Nottinghamshire On June 23rd the small assembly at Kirkby-in-Ashfield held their second Evangelism Day assisted by Stephen Baker, (Liverpool). Twenty young people from across the East Midlands…
Sandy Jack
2012 Volume 67 Issue 4
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England Dorset The believers from Bethany Chapel, Lyme Regis have been encouraged in seeing some confessions of faith from some of the elderly ladies who have been attending the services, and also in …
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 2
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England Berkshire At the end of April, Daniel Rudge, together with the saints at Bracknell, held a series of gospel meetings. Fifty unsaved, twenty of which were adults, came along to a family lunch o…
Sandy Jack
2015 Volume 70 Issue 4
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England Oxfordshire For the third year in a row, the believers at North Leigh have sought to reach out to the local area with a February half-term Children’s Holiday Bible Club. They were encouraged a…
Sandy Jack
2015 Volume 70 Issue 2
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ENGLAND West Yorkshire The assembly in Skelmanthorpe appreciated a week’s visit from Jonathan Black. Jonathan ministered the word and gave reports on the Lord’s work in London at the Home Worker’s Con…
Sandy Jack
2015 Volume 70 Issue 1
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ENGLAND Northumberland The Red Row assembly, in Northumberland, had a visit from the small Church of England school in Acklington, a neighbouring village, where they have an opportunity to take school…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 4
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England Kirkby-in-Ashfield Since January of this year, the assembly in Kirkby-in-Ashfield has been involved in a town centre outreach in the Idlewells Shopping Centre in Sutton-in-Ashfield, a neighbou…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 3
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Reports
England Devon Clive and Christine Williams from Barnstaple, along with Trevor Howard, took the opportunity to take the gospel to those attending the Barnstaple and Bridgewater Fairs. Whilst Trevor too…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 1
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ENGLAND Nottinghamshire The assembly at Kirkby-in-Ashfield held its second Evangelism Day for 2012 on Saturday, 13th October. A number of young people from across the East Midlands gathered for a time…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 1
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England Liverpool The gospel radio programme on local university radio is a work which Stephen Baker has embarked on. This is a one-hour programme on Mondays from 19:00. People can access the programm…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 3
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England West Yorkshire The assembly in Hemsworth is able to go into around ten local schools to take the assemblies. Once a year, the assembly takes the Open Air Mission’s Bible exhibition into eight …
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 4
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Reports
England Surrey The assembly at Guildford were really encouraged during the February half-term school holiday. From the Monday to the Wednesday of the holiday, a Bible Club for primary schoolchildren w…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 2
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Reports and News – Gospel Work and Other Activities
Editorial Note You may note that this issue of the magazine has only one page of Reports. This is part of a planned review being undertaken in response to a decreasing number of contributions being su…
Sandy Jack
2016 Volume 71 Issue 1
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The Lordship of Christ is Recognized
Maybe it is not surprising that truths concerning our salvation should tend to interest us most, but there are other truths of equal value in the estimation of heaven – truths which concern the place …
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An Assembly of the Lord’s people will be a people among whom …
2018 Volume 73 Issue 4
Assembly Principles
Views from the News
Twitter users invited to help choose the new Archbishop of Canterbury The Church of England is to use the social networking site Twitter to help select the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Spokesman for …
Sandy Jack
2012 Volume 67 Issue 2
Views from the News
Views from the News
HATE CRIME A Norwich grandmother who objected to a gay march is accused of hate crime. After witnessing a gay pride march, committed Christian Pauline Howe wrote to the Council to complain that the ev…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 1
Report
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Politicians and Faith Schools It has emerged that Foreign Secretary David Miliband – an avowed atheist – sends his five-year-old son to a soughtafter Church of England school, two miles from his home.…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 2
Report
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Pagan police win the right to take time off for festivals Pagan police officers have been given the right to take days off to celebrate festivals where they leave food out for the dead and take part i…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 3
Report
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Suicide clinic Dignitas under investigation The controversial suicide clinic Dignitas is under investigation by the Swiss authorities over claims that it provided drugs to a patient to allow him to e…
Sandy Jack
2010 Volume 65 Issue 4
Exposition
Views from the News
Most under-35s have not heard of the King James Bible More than half of young adults have never heard of the King James Version of the Bible, according to a new survey. The influential translation, wh…
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 1
Views from the News
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Equality Commission sorry for Christian ‘infection’ jibe The Government’s equality agency has said sorry for a sneering remark that implied Christian moral values are like an ‘infection’ that could ha…
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 2
Views from the News
Views from the News
Christians take prejudice row to Strazbourg In a significant legal development, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has requested that the British Government state whether they believe that the …
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 3
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Views from the News
Postal workers refuse to deliver Bible recordings because the CDs are ‘offensive' Postal workers refused to deliver CD’s of Bible readings after deciding they were ‘offensive material’. Several church…
Sandy Jack
2011 Volume 66 Issue 4
Views from the News
Views from the News
Alabama Supreme Court orders halt to same-sex marriage licences Alabama’s Supreme Court has ordered the state’s judges to stop issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples. A federal ruling says bann…
Sandy Jack
2015 Volume 70 Issue 2
Views from the News
Views from the News
Cameron CANNOT protect Church against gay marriage laws (says his own Justice Minister) UK Prime Minister, David Cameron’s promise to protect churches from gay marriage laws could hit legal hurdles, a…
Sandy Jack
2012 Volume 67 Issue 3
Views from the News
Views from the News
Australia votes against redefining marriage The Parliament of Australia has overwhelmingly rejected attempts to legalize gay marriage in two decisive votes. Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard,…
Sandy Jack
2012 Volume 67 Issue 4
A Word for Today
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2011 Census Returns Now fewer than six in ten people say they are Christians Proportion of Christians in England and Wales down to 59.3 per cent Quarter of people say they do not follow any religion …
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 1
Views from the News
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Christians mark David Livingstone’s bicentenary Christians have been remembering the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, as 19th March marked 200 years since his birth. A conference wa…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 2
Views from the News
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Church of England gives up fight against gay marriage The Church of England has effectively accepted defeat over gay marriage, signalling that it will no longer fight against a change in the law. In a…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 3
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Head teachers removed in row over ‘creationist’ church Two head teachers who allowed members of a US-based creationist church to help out at a Scottish primary school have been removed from their post…
Sandy Jack
2013 Volume 68 Issue 4
Views from the News
Views from the News
Rising numbers of children no longer read Bible stories A study by the Bible Society finds that a large number of children are failing to read or hear Christian stories. They found that exposure to th…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 2
Views from the News
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Russia sentences secret agents over theft of Gutenberg Bible Russia has sentenced three agents belonging to its Federal Security Service (FSB) for trying to sell a rare 15th-Century Bible, officials s…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 3
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Richard Dawkins apologizes for causing storm with Down’s syndrome tweet Richard Dawkins has apologized for the ‘feeding frenzy’ triggered by his tweet claiming it would be immoral to carry on with a p…
Sandy Jack
2014 Volume 69 Issue 4
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Schools ‘failing to teach children about the Bible' A Bible Society study found that large numbers of children are not being taught about the Bible, Koran, or Torah to avoid favouring ‘one religion ov…
Sandy Jack
2015 Volume 70 Issue 1
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