68 h. ago Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement

The movement towards simple, Christian living can be a yearning for order in a chaotic age. It’s also alarmingly retrogradeA cool evening air was descending on the 25-acre farmstead, blowing across the pond, around the barn, through the apple orchard and into the windows of Mike and Jenny Thomas’s two-century-old, red brick farmhouse.The dinner hour had come. Edith, five, and George, three, enthusiastically rang a bell hanging near the kitchen door, sending metallic peals back into the early dusk. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Which Bloomsbury set writer does Niall Williams have no time for?

Niall Williams answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, what left him cold?

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4 d. ago Abusive husband assaulted wife with holy book and burned her on boiling hot pan

Sameer Ali, 23, also took put a credit card in his victim's name without her knowledge and left in her hundreds of pounds of debt

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5 d. ago Descendant of Robert Burns gets a close look at book gifted to her six times great grandmother

Teen Luciana Docherty, along with her grandmother Irene, father Campbell, and younger sister Carolina, got a glimpse of a precious family artefact.

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1 week ago Scots schoolgirl related to Robert Burns examines book he gifted to ancestor

Luciana Docherty, 13, is a 10th generation descendant of the Bard and was able to see the book he gifted to her six times great grandmother, Elizabeth Burns, for the first time in a decade.

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2 w. ago Baby boy 'kidnapped' after mum was 'knocked out cold' in parking lot attack

Police have launched a hunt for missing Emmanuel Haro, who was allegedly taken after his mum said she was knocked unconscious in a car park outside a shop in California

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