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The Church of England cannot sign up to a plan aimed at preventing the global Anglican Church from splitting up after half its 44 dioceses voted against it. The Archbishop of Canterbury backed the Anglican Covenant in a bid to ensure divisive issues - such as gay bishops - did not cause the Communion to split. A vote by the diocesan synod of Lincoln meant 22 dioceses had opposed the plan. The covenant had already been rejected by conservative global Church leaders, whom it was intended to placate. Outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had said the covenant was about...

And They Will be a Nation to Me by Ari Bussel There once was a synagogue where a very old man prayed. He had escaped Hitler’s rise to power, leaving his parents and siblings behind in Poland where soon after they were slaughtered. He started his life in America as an expert tailor, raised a family and became a Baal Torah, an expert in the Jewish Books of Wisdom. He taught many boys for their Bar Mitzvah. With his wife, they raised two daughters and saw them marry and have children of their own. His wife departed before him, and...