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contributions often follow a similar format: starting with a contemporary issue of public interest or concern, possibly drawn from the news, or from sport, the arts, science or some other area of public life as a lead-in to a spiritual or religious reflection. A report by the Christian think tank
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as a commemoration of "20 years of gay sex", and arguing that Church was failing in its "duty to condemn sin... no doubt, we will have an adulterers' Christian Fellowship". The Church of England expressed disapproval of Atkins' views, specifically the suggestion that increasing tolerance of
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contributions can be more explicitly evangelistic while others are more personal, and others have been positively inter-religious with contributors praising faiths different from their own. Leslie Griffiths, a Christian contributor to the programme described his view of the role of faith in
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slot to defend those protesting the poll tax, and planned to speak in positive tones of "the spiritual value of revolt". The segment was set to be broadcast on the first day of the Labour Party conference, but James resigned from the programme and told the
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Suffolk Daily thought for the day). slot, now pre-recorded and broadcast at 6:45. There is a "pick of the week" re-broadcast on Sunday morning. Speakers are drawn from a wide spectrum of Christian churches, and there is substantial representation from the
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report that Saudi Arabia planned to hang a Christian Filipino preacher on Christmas Day. Pastor Wally Magdangal had allegedly been flogged and tortured for preaching Christianity. The item became featured on news throughout the day, and was taken up by
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as follows: "I'm a Christian and the essence of my Christianity gives me the angle from which I want to reflect, but it is the lens rather than the subject itself. I don’t want to talk about Christianity, I want as a Christian to talk about the news".
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offering "reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news", broadcast at around 7:45 each Monday to Saturday morning. Lasting 2 minutes and 45 seconds, it is a successor to the five-minute religious sequence
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has included both traditionalist and more radical voices, and at times those selected to present in the slot have gone beyond providing spiritual instruction into directly criticising government policy and other social issues.
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Meditatory link: the contributor moves from the contemporary topical issue to the theological issue in a way that inspires reflection but does not try to give a moral or message about the original issue.
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homosexuality in the church was the cause of a declining number of people seeking to become ordained. The BBC said that they had received a "substantial number of complaints from listeners".
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but was unable to do so. Fearing an accusation of bias in broadcasting Benn and not Boyson, they delayed Benn's broadcast until after the political conference season.
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is reprehensible", the Church of England was altogether too tolerant of homosexuals, condemning a service in Southwark Cathedral commemorating twenty years of the
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from December 1939, initially at 7:30, though soon moved to 7:47. The feature is mainly delivered by those involved in religious practice; often, these are
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was delayed. Benn attacked the BBC for delaying the broadcast and told the press that he had been censored. It later turns out that the Conservative MP
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Ekklesia described the link between the topical lead-in and the spiritual reflection as usually taking one of the following forms:
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and as far afield as Australia. Since 2007, the website Platitude of the Day has offered a daily humorous, critical counter to
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No link: this is usually done when the contributor picks a topic that is already directly spiritual or religious in nature.
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During the 1980s, increasing social problems in the inner cities led the Church of England to produce a report,
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slot. Pakula used his message to reflect on the underlying meaning of Christmas. In a brief discussion with
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earlier in the year. In the message, he claimed to be fond of Britain and asked listeners to consider
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Directional link: the contributor uses the theological content to comment on the issue in question.
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thinkers, but there have been numerous occasions where representatives of other faiths, including
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from Oxford University was given a two-and-a-half minute slot to deliver a reflection from an
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speaker, possibly reflecting the strong interfaith movement in the station's home town of
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format has been copied onto some other BBC channels, notably local radio. An example is
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perspective within an otherwise entirely secular news programme. The last secular
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Notable contributors to the slot have included major religious figures, including
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recorded a 'Christmas message especially for the UK', which was broadcast as the
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slot itself. The Editors of the BBC World Service's version of the same strand
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broadcasts a similar spot on weekday mornings called "Pause for Thought".
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and other international groups. The pastor was later released.
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attacked an immigration bill put forward by the government of
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had criticised the BBC for giving the Pope a chance to "
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on 24 December 2010. The broadcast followed the Pope's
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took the Saudi Arabian judiciary to task after a brief
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An "Alternative Thought for the Day" was offered by
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