Archive for October, 2009

Russell Brand: Seeking salvation (Times Online)

October 31st, 2009

His amazing sexual prowess, his obsession with Helen Mirren, his recovery from addiction, his radio shame — Russell Brand confesses all to Chrissy Iley. Then he tells her he’s seeking redemption. Will we forgive him?

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Russell Brand: Seeking salvation (Times Online)

Pope makes Anglican conversions easier (MSNBC)

October 31st, 2009

The Vatican wants to make it easier for conversions of Anglicans to Catholicism, the goal being to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and blessing of same-sex unions.

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The school rules (Times Online)

October 31st, 2009

Whether it’s private or state, faith or grammar, where we send our children to school says more about us than we’d like at the best of times. At the moment, though, that choice feels even more troubling, as each week there’s another incendiary headline to set fragile parental hearts racing.

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Keats-Shelley prize goes to Buddhist poet (Guardian Unlimited)

October 31st, 2009

DH Maitreyabandhu takes £3,000 award for ‘a wonderful evocation of the nature of childhood’ The Keats-Shelley prize, an annual award for the best poem on a Romantic theme, has for the first time this year gone to an explicitly Buddhist poet, DH Maitreyabandhu. His win shows the enduring appeal of John Keats across cultures, religions and generations, almost 200 years after the poet died …

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Letters by poet Byron sell for record sum (UPI)

October 31st, 2009

LONDON, Oct. 31 (UPI) — A series of letters written by the late British poet George Gordon Byron has sold for a world record $458,000, Sotheby’s auction house in London said.

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Letters by poet Byron sell for record sum (UPI)