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‘CAN WE AFFORD RELIGION?’Professor Sir JOHN SULSTON was interviewed by Guardian journalist ANDREW BROWN
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‘Should we legislate to permit assisted dying?’ Highlights and podcasts of Lord Falconer, Baroness Finlay, Giles Fraser and Professor Rob George in debate.
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‘Do Christians really oppose gay marriage?’ Highlights and podcasts of Tina Beattie, Steve Chalke, John Gummer, Stephen Holmes and John Milbank in debate.
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‘What’s a traditional family and do we need it?’ Highlights and podcasts of Rosalind Edwards, Andrew Goddard, Ronald Hutton and Polly Toynbee in debate.
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‘Is it right for religions to treat men and women differently?’ Highlights and podcasts of Fatima Barkatulla, Harvey Belovski, Mary Ann Sieghart and Rod Thomas in debate.
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‘Too much sex these days – the sexualisation of society?’ Highlights and podcasts of Donna Freitas, Maureen Kendler, Catherine Pepinster and Jenny Taylor in debate.
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‘Stem cell research, abortion and the ‘soul of the embryo’?’ Highlights and podcasts of John Harris, Gerard Hughes, David Albert Jones and Abdul Majid Katme in debate.
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Some of the speakers in previous debates believe that religion has been pushed out of public life, marginalised, even persecuted. Others think it’s not been pushed out far enough and still has undue influence in government, schools and so on. How well does the UK ‘do’ religion in public life, and what improvements are needed?
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How has religion in Britain changed since 1945? What are the main differences between the 1950s, the 1980s and the 2010s, and what are the continuities? How does all this relate to wider social trends?
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On the one hand, how much freedom should religious people and groups have to express their convictions? On the other hand, how much freedom should there be for others to express convictions which may be hostile or insulting to religion and religious people? In both cases, where do we draw the line, who decides and how?
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