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A review of the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

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William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language - yet we know little about his personal life. Jerram Barrs…

At a recent Alpha group, frustrated by the complexity of the Bible, someone sighed, "I wish God had written an executive summary." But God…

Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…