The Spectator

The many fights over the Lord’s Prayer

Plus: energy use in the age of climate change; home ownership under the Tories; the world’s rarest creatures

issue 28 November 2015

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Digital Cinema Media, a company which distributes adverts to cinemas, refused to allow an advert which involves the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer by, among others, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Some other battles over the prayer:
— Campaigners want Alberta to follow other Canadian states, where recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in state schools is already banned.

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