A Situation Like That Faced by the Sixteenth-Century Reformers

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IT IS not often that I have the pleasure of agreeing wholeheartedly with a fellow Bairn but Ronald Peebles's letter (September 23) hits some of the nails in the church's coffin squarely on the head.

Over the last 50 years or so the focus of moral authority, particularly in the western world, has shifted disastrously from transcendental god to secular state to individual self. Concern for the whole has fragmented into, often mutually contradictory, "single issues" and the clarity of a morality subject to logic has been replaced by a "political correctness" which is so fuddled that a woolly rhinoceros would seem clean-shaven in comparison.

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A Situation Like That Faced by the Sixteenth-Century Reformers

What is particularly dispiriting is that many in the ch...

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